3-30-2011 news by sapphiretech

This video card with 1 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory is based on the 40nm Barts GPU Core and and thius version should get 800 stream processors, the GPU core is clocked @ 840MHz and the RAM is clocked @ 4.2GHz effectively. The GPU cooler this card is equipped with is identical to the SAPPHIRE HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCIE card and the temperature levels will probably be acceptable.

The card has two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort output.

Benchmarks:

No benchmark results have been published yet, but the Radeon HD6790 is expected to perform worse than the Radeon HD6850, and the power draw will be higher.