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

Crysis 3

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Crysis 3

Crysis 3, which is powered by Crytek’s proprietary CryENGINE 3 technology is the third installment in this popular franchise. Crysis 3 is the sequel to 2011’s Crysis 2 and follows Prophet as he returns to New York a few years after the events of Crysis 2. Like previous games in the franchise, Crysis 3 has impressive visuals that can tax even the most powerful PCs when cranked up to their maximum values. We tested this game at various resolutions with all in-game graphics options set to Very High, with 4X MSAA and 16X anisotropic filtering enabled and motion blur set to high.

Although the numbers generally stuck to their familiar pattern in the Crysis 3 benchmark, we noticed that MSI’s Radeon HD 7790 did slip a little further behind the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST than we expected. Otherwise, the card landed squarely where we expected it to: bringing up the rear, but only ever so slightly, versus the other overclocked Radeon HD 7790 cards.

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.