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

Hitman: Absolution

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Hitman

Hitman: Absolution follows Agent 47, a cold-blooded assassin, who takes on his most dangerous contract to date. Betrayed by those he once trusted - and now hunted by the police - he suddenly finds himself at the center of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world. We tested the game at multiple resolutions, with all in-game options set to their maximum values and global illumination and 4X anti-aliasing enabled.

Hitman leveled the playing field a bit for all of the cards we’ve been discussing. The MSI Radeon HD 7790 kept its place just behind the ASUS and Sapphire cards, but the GTX 650 Ti BOOST pulled off only a few more frame rates than its competitors at both 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 resolutions.

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.