AMD Radeon HD 7790: Affordable DX11 Gaming

Name: AMD Radeon HD 7790 Graphics Card
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, March 22, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

There is a lot to see in these Sleeping Dogs results. First, the performance trend we've witnessed throughout most of this article continued here--the Radeon HD 7790 outpaced the Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GTX 650, but trailed the higher-end cards when tested at 1920x1200.

With the resolution cranked up to 2560x1600, however, the cards with 1GB frame buffers, i.e. all of the cards except for the GeForce GTX 660, crater. 1GB of frame buffer memory simply isn't enough for cutting edge titles when running at ultra-high resolutions with high-quality in-game image quality settings.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, 7790

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com