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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
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