- Nov 16, 2006
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Reviews:
Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6837/...w-feat-sapphire-the-first-desktop-sea-islands
TPU:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_7790_Dual-X/
HWCanucks:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/60303-amd-radeon-hd-7790-review.html
Just to get it out of the way: Ha ha ha yes they actually named it Bonaire. Yes that sounds like boner with a french twist. This card is going to give everyone in the ~$150 market a Bonaire etc etc etc you're very funny and original.
There are rumors around about this card being a "pipe cleaner" product for GCN 2.0, i.e. Microarch improvements but still on the same 28nm process. 7790 is intended to (obviously) fill the gaping hole between the 7850 1gb and the 7770, although I think everyone would have preferred 7850's & 7870's sliding down in price slightly than the introduction of a whole new SKU.
It performs remarkably well given its core and BUS loadout, the big if is really its potential to overclock, although it seems to be clocked well over 1ghz out of the gate.
Thoughts?
Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6837/...w-feat-sapphire-the-first-desktop-sea-islands
TPU:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_7790_Dual-X/
HWCanucks:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/60303-amd-radeon-hd-7790-review.html
Just to get it out of the way: Ha ha ha yes they actually named it Bonaire. Yes that sounds like boner with a french twist. This card is going to give everyone in the ~$150 market a Bonaire etc etc etc you're very funny and original.
There are rumors around about this card being a "pipe cleaner" product for GCN 2.0, i.e. Microarch improvements but still on the same 28nm process. 7790 is intended to (obviously) fill the gaping hole between the 7850 1gb and the 7770, although I think everyone would have preferred 7850's & 7870's sliding down in price slightly than the introduction of a whole new SKU.
It performs remarkably well given its core and BUS loadout, the big if is really its potential to overclock, although it seems to be clocked well over 1ghz out of the gate.
Thoughts?
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