April 5 2011 review by hardwarecanucks

In many ways, this card acts as a perfect bridge product between the AMD Radeon HD6850 1GB and the HD5770 within AMD's lineup

One of the small issues the reviewers encountered during benchmark testing was the power consumption. Due to relatively high clock speeds, an increase in efficiency over the HD 6850 wasn't achieved.

Overclocking:

The GPU Core Clock was OCed @ 981Mhz and the GDDR5 RAM @ 4644Mhz effectively.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, Aliens Versus Predator, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, DiRT 2, F1 2010, Just Cause 2, Lost Planet, Metro 2033, Unigine: Heaven bench.

Compared To:

• AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB, HD 5830 1GB, HD 6790 1GB, HD 6850 1GB.
• Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1GB, GTX 460 1GB SE , GTX 460 768MB, GTX 550 Ti 1GB, GTX 560 T

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i7 920
• CPU Cooler : CoolIT Boreas mTEC
• Display : Samsung 305T 30 inch
• HDD : WD Caviar Black 640GB
• Mainboard : Gigabyte EX58-UD5
• Operatin System : Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
• Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD Writer
• PSU : Corsair HX1000W
• RAM : Corsair 6GB Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz

April 5 2011 review by guru3d

The Radeon 6790 is value for money ans is offering good performance. It's definitely rated higher and performing better than NVIDIA's GTX 550 Ti.

Overclocking:

Without voltage tweaking you'll reach say 900 to 950 MHz, The GDDR5 memory was clocked to 5000 MHz.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i7 965
• Display : Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600
• Motherboard : MSI Big bang XPower X58
• PSU : Unkown 1200 Watt
• RAM : 6 GB (3x2) DDR3 Corsair
• Video Card : Radeon HD 6790 1GB

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, 3D Mark Vantage, Anno 1404, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Colin McRae Dirt 2, Crysis WARHEAD, Far Cry 2, Metro 2033.

April 5 2011 review by anandtech

Whether or not AMD calls the Radon HD6790 the successor of the AMD Radeon HD5830, that's what it is. So 5830 comparisons are quite appropriate, both to look at what AMD did well at and where it doesn't quite escapes its ancestor.

Benchmarks:

Many games, Power draw, Temperatures, Noise Levels, Compute, Tessellation.

Test Setup:

• HDD : OCZ SuMemory : it (120GB)
• Mainboard : Asus Rampage II Extreme
• Memory : Patriot Viper DDR3-1333MHz 6GB
• Processor : Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz

Compared To:

• AMD Radeon HD4870, HD4870X2, HD5770, HD5830, HD5850, HD5870, HD5970, HD6790, HD6850, HD6870, HD6950 2GB, HD6970, HD6990.
• NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, GTX260 Core 216, GTX285, GTX295, GTX460 1GB, GTX460 768MB, GTX470, GTX480, GTX550 Ti, GTX560 Ti, GTX570, G