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

Batman Arkham City

DirectX Gaming Performance

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is a sequel to 2009’s Game of the Year-winning Batman: Arkham Asylum. This recently released sequel, however, lives up to and even surpasses the original in many ways. The story takes place 18 months after the original game. Quincy Sharp, the onetime administrator of Arkham Asylum, has become mayor and convinced Gotham to create "Arkham City" by walling off the worst, most crime-ridden areas of the city and turning the area into a giant open-air prison. The game has DirectX 9 and 11 rendering paths, with support for tessellation, multi-view soft shadows, and ambient occlusion. We tested in DX11 mode at various resolutions with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values.

In Batman: Arkham City, the MSI Radeon HD 7790 lands right where we expect it to: slightly behind its fellow 7790 OC cards but behind NVIDIA’s competing GTX 650 Ti BOOST. Even so, we’re talking about very playable framerates here – at 1920x1200, you’re looking at an average 51 frames per second, which is plenty smooth.

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.