{"video_id":"EpYJfjXnQmc","title":"AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review - 1080p Performance","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":339,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.759,"text":"this video is brought to you by CM Storm Preferred Choice of mice headsets and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.919,"end_s":12.92,"text":"mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www. coolermaster usa.com teamor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.8,"end_s":14.639,"text":"curse for more details Welcome to our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.92,"end_s":18.68,"text":"video review of the 7790 now it took us a little while to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.72,"end_s":25.32,"text":"get our hands on this card so we weren't able to get one until MSI got us a 7790","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.119,"end_s":28.88,"text":"OC now bear in mind that whether it's 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surprises it does support ifinity it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":325.199,"end_s":332.88,"text":"does uh have excellent power efficiency as well as quiet operation and you get","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.24,"end_s":335.68,"text":"what you pay for thanks for checking out this video online as Tech tips and as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.56,"end_s":340.8,"text":"always don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"this video is brought to you by CM Storm Preferred Choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www. coolermaster usa.com teamor curse for more details Welcome to our video review of the 7790 now it took us a little while to get our hands on this card so we weren't able to get one until MSI got us a 7790 OC now bear in mind that whether it's Ed or not Ed or 90210 or whatever else it happens to be uh we overclock every card we get our hands on anyway and we keep them all within sort of a reasonable overclocking expectation like you could probably get something close to those settings if you follow the usual procedure for overclocking and so yeah we don't really sort of worry too much about any of that so let's start with our overall test platform we've got a 3930k which is overclocked to 4 GHz we've got a p9x 79 Deluxe motherboard 16 gigs of Kingston hypx memory a corser h100 liquid cooler to handle that overclocked six core an ntech hcp 1000 W power supply it's 80 plus Platinum a 128 gig Vertex 4 SSD and last but not least the graphics cards which vary so the one that we have left on here right now I believe is our 7870 Hawk yes that is indeed the card we have so we are going to be using our usual methodologies for all the games you see and we're going to put annotations uh next to them as each game comes up to let you guys know how you can replicate our results so you can take your own hardware and see if you can produce the same sort of um Benchmark run which you should be able to and you can compare your own Hardware to what you're using so without any further Ado we're going to launch into our first game so BioShock Infinite um is a very new very exciting title and it looks like the 7790 performed about 10 12% worse than the GTX 650 TI boost now both of these cars launched at almost the same time the 650 TI boost came in right after the 7790 had had a great launch and was very disruptive because it wasn't much more expensive it had 2 gigs of RAM whereas the stock 7790 had 1 gig of RAM however you can get it in 2 gig configurations and it yeah it wasn't that much more expensive so the 7790 is kind of like an amped up 7770 or a uh 77 or a 7850 that's been been crippled a little bit and you can see it falls right exactly in between those two cards and uh I mean a little bit under the 650 TI boost so everything performs pretty much exactly where it should we ran all of our tests at 1080p as per our usual procedure especially for cards like this that are intended to be run at 1080p so for Far Cry 3 we found that the 7790 performed pretty much right in line with the GTX 650 TI boost this makes sense I mean this I consider a win for the 7790 because it's only a 1 gig card and because it did manage to perform the same and you can see that we've taken cards the next card's up and the next card's down from both the green and the red team so you can see how those compare the 7770 still does quite well only performing about 20% lower than the 7790 and the 650 really didn't put in put up a very good fight at all in this one for Metro 2033 you see the 7770 looks really good the 7790 looks a little bit better than that and the 650 TI boost looks a little bit better than that which is pretty much exactly where we'd expect them to fall however we can still kind of call this a win for the 77 90 because the 650 TI boost it doesn't perform better enough to justify its additional cost with that said the 650 TI boost only really gets the benefit from that extra memory which does cost more to manufacture when you actually require it so when the textures of the game fill up 1 gig vram and can overflow it to the point where it'll that card's performance in Witcher two we saw what may be an example of that where the 7790 really didn't perform that much better than a 7770 only about 10% whereas the 650 TI boost pulled out significantly away from both of them by about 15% but again hard to say how much of that is the actual power of the GPU and how much is the additional vram the 650 really trailed in this one and the 7770 put up a pretty good fight finally our last game is Crisis 3 but can it run crisis and the answer is yes it sits pretty much exactly where it belongs within the product stack in this one and there are no surprises there so what what does all this mean well um depending on your budget if you want to spend uh $150 plus or minus get a 7790 if you wanted to spend a little bit more than that maybe about 175 bucks you can get a 650 TI boost both of them are an excellent value and if you wanted to spend even less than that the 7770 continues to be our lightweight champion at only around 120 bucks and giving you most of the performance of the next tier up of cards and much better than what the green team has to put forward at that price point which was the gtx650 at $115 now we take all of our pricing as the second lowest price on nc.com to give you guys some idea so if you kind of go oh well the retailer near me has these prices I'll go okay yes they do that's fine but that's not our methodology for taking pricing and comparing these cards so in conclusion the 7790 offers up not much in terms of surprises it does support ifinity it does uh have excellent power efficiency as well as quiet operation and you get what you pay for thanks for checking out this video online as Tech tips and as always don't forget to subscribe for more 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