AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review - Sea Islands and Bonaire Make an Appearance

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When we talked with AMD recently about its leaked roadmap that

insinuated that we would not see any new GPUs in 2013, they were

adamant that other options would be made available to gamers but were

coy about about saying when and to what degree. As it turns out,

today marks the release of the Radeon HD 7790, a completely new piece

of silicon under the Sea Islands designation, that uses the same GCN

(Graphics Core Next) architecture as the HD 7000-series / Southern

Islands GPUs with a handful of tweaks and advantages from improved

clock boosting with PowerTune to faster default memory clocks.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-HD-7790-Review-Sea-Islands-and-Bonaire-Make-Appearance

 

Quote: "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 $149 and $230 (GTX 650 Ti

to the GTX 660) the Radeon HD 7790 should make a pretty big splash as

long as it has that opening. The question is how long NVIDIA will

wait to finally address this whole in its lineup that has existed for

many months."

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

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