This is a good card overall for those on a budget. Its lower temperature delta gives it an advantage over the reference GTX 550Tis. But we would like to see it priced around the Rs. 6500 to recommend it.
Design and Build: The card comes in a black coloured touch plastic shroud which has a sticker of the artwork from the box on the right hand side. The fan in the centre covers the whole breath of the card and is placed atop the
heatsink.
Performance: It provides comfortable gaming frame rates for all games except Crysis Warhead where it maxes out at 22FPS at 1080p with Very High settings. Dirt3 benchmark gave the highest frame rates. Its scores are higher than the HD6770 and at par with reference GTX 550Ti’s but the factory overclocked versions edge past the HD 6790.
Refer to the gallery to view benchmarks, as well as the below table.
Verdict: This is a good card overall for those on a budget. Its lower temperature delta gives it an advantage over the reference GTX 550Tis. But we would like to see it priced around the Rs. 6500 to recommend it.
Score Out of 100: 49.22
Price: Rs.7,499
| Brand Model | PowerColor HD 6790 |
| Type of memory / Memory Clock (MHz) | DDR5 / 1050 |
| Core / Shader Clock (MHz) | 840 / NA |
| No. of Stream Processors | 800 |
| Memory size (MB) / Memory Interface | 1024 / 256-bit |
| Connects on card | DVI-D, HDMI, Mini-Display Port |
| Accessories provided | DVI-D-Sub, Driver CD |
| Game Provided | N |
| Synthetic Benchmarks | |
| 3D Mark 11 (Overall) | 4960 |
| 3D Mark 11 (Graphics) | 4956 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Score | 557 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Frame rate | 22.1 |
| Temperature (Load) | 59 |
| Temperature (Idle) | 33 |
| Game Benchmarks | |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 78.72 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 69.47 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 64.05 |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 64.93 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 56.23 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 51.85 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1680×1050, No AA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 71.7 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1680×1050, 4x AA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 50.2 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1920×1080, 4xAA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 44.2 |
| Resident Evil (1680×1050, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | 87.3 |
| Resident Evil (1920×1080, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | 78.2 |
| Crysis Warhead (1280×1024, DX10, Med) Avg | 63 |
| Crysis Warhead (1680×1050, DX10, Med) Avg | 54 |
| Crysis Warhead (1680×1050, DX10, Very High) Avg | 25 |
| Crysis Warhead (1920×1080, DX10, Very High) Avg | 22 |
| Dirt 3 (1280×1024, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 104.19 |
| Dirt 3 (1680×1050, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 92.58 |
| Dirt 3 (1920×1080, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 83.61 |
| Dirt 3 (1280×1024, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 84.64 |
| Dirt 3 (1680×1050, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 73.38 |
| Dirt 3 (1920×1080, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 67.77 |
| Crysis 2 (1920×1080 Hardcore) | 33.68 |
| Crysis 2 (1680×1050 Hardcore) | 38.36 |