MSI Radeon HD 7790 OC Edition: Mid-Range Graphics

Name: MSI Radeon HD 7790 OC Edition: Mid-Range Graphics Card
Brand: MSI

by Joshua Gulick — Friday, May 10, 2013, 01:55 PM 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.

At 1920x1200, the MSI Radeon HD 7790 catches up to GTX 650 Ti BOOST, offering an average framerate of 20.5 to the NVIDIA card’s 21.4. Of course, the MSI card still ends up just a hair behind the ASUS and Sapphire cards. And the GTX 650 Ti BOOST pulls back firmly into the lead at 2560x1600.

Tags: Nvidia, AMD, MSI, Radeon, graphics, PCI Express, Radeon HD 7790

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.