AMD Radeon HD 7790

Overview

The AMD Radeon HD 7790 GPU core runs at 1GHz while its GDDR5 memory is at 1500MHz, this GPU also carries 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs. The HD 7790 operates at near silence because even under load it only draws 85 watts and as little as 3 watts at idle.

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

4
Average:

0
Bad:

3

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Last revision on March 23, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Affordable
Plays most current PC games well
Bioshock Infinite bundle
Good value

Reviewers Didn't Like

Some newer games won't run perfect at max settings
A little more money gets you a little more performance

Expert reviews and ratings

By TechSpot on March 22, 2013 75

With AMD working harder than ever to improve performance across their Radeon HD 7000 series, we feel the 7790 at $150 is a safe investment, though you wouldn't be doing wrong if you went with the competition either.

By micromart.co.uk on August 22, 2013 80

The Radeon HD 7790 stands out for a couple of reasons: it's AMD's most powerful mid-range graphics card and, at £110, it's the most expensive GPU in this group.For that money, you get a card that uses the same basic architecture as the high-end HD 7970....

By HEXUS.net on March 29, 2013 60

AMD announced the mainstream Radeon HD 7790 GPU last week and expects add-in board partners to begin selling their own cards in the next few days. HD 7790 provides solid gaming performance at a full-HD (1080p) resolution, and the use of a custom-built...

By DigitalVersus on March 25, 2013 60

The AMD Radeon HD 7790 meets its primary goal, which is simply to rival the competition. But the price will have to drop quickly. If it doesn't, the point of this card's existence will be...

By uk.hardware.info on May 07, 2013

Tons of benchmarks, but the conclusion is quite clear. In Full HD resolution, for which the Radeon HD 7790 is intended, 2GB does not have any added value over 1 GB. So you're better off getting the 1 GB version and saving a little money. The Radeon HD...

By X-bit Labs on May 05, 2013

As we’ve found out in our testing, the Radeon HD 7790 and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost successfully complement the current line-ups of AMD- and Nvidia-based solutions. The former is exactly halfway between the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition and the...

By uk.hardware.info on March 22, 2013

The Radeon HD 7790 is AMD's latest entry in the eternal battle with Nvidia. The new card has a good price point of 150 dollars or about 150 euros, and is a worthy competitor of the similarly priced GeForce GTX 650 Ti. We arrived at an average...

By PCPer on March 22, 2013

AMD's new Radeon HD 7790 is the first Sea Islands GPU to find its way to the channel market and Bonaire proves to be very compelling product in the sub-$200 market that is usually quite crowded. Because of NVIDIA's gap in product that lies between...

By HotHardware on March 22, 2013

The new Radeon HD 7790 cards featured in this article performed right in line with our expectations. Based on its branding alone, it's obvious that the Radeon HD 7790 falls somewhere in between the Radeon HD 7770 and the Radeon HD 7850 in AMD's...

By techPowerUp! on March 22, 2013

The most interesting feature of sub-$200 graphics cards is their ability to transform from mid-range single-card solutions into high-end dual-card ones through the use of multi-GPU technologies like AMD CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI. With dual-GPU capable...

By Guru of 3D on March 22, 2013

But let me finish things up. The Bonaire based product seems a good fit in the lower segment of the graphics card market. We do like this product as it does offer a nice chunk of extra performance over the R7770, making the R7790 perform closer to the...

By AnandTech on March 22, 2013

In an industry that has long grown accustomed to annual product updates, the video card industry is one where the flip of a calendar to a new year brings a lot of excitement, anticipation, speculation, and maybe even a bit of dread for consumers and...

By The Tech Report on March 22, 2013

Let's wrap things up with a couple of our trademark value scatter plots. In both plots, the performance numbers are geometric means of data points from all games tested. (They exclude the synthetic tests at the beginning of the article.) The first plot...

By Tom's Hardware on March 21, 2013

In case you missed it, the title of this page is A Good Value At $150. That's the same overarching theme we identified when Nvidia launched its GeForce GTX 650 Ti five months ago. It was a long time coming, but AMD is finally competing at the price point...

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