Feature Articles

AMD Radeon HD 6790 - Confusing and Unnecessary

By Kenny Yeo - 21 Apr 2011

Unigine 2.1 "Heaven" Benchmarks

Unigine 2.1 "Heaven" Benchmarks

NVIDIA cards have usually performed better when it came to tessellation-heavy applications, but even on Unigine, the Radeon HD 6790 maintained a slight superiority over the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. It might be faster, but the difference in raw frame rates was only about 2 - 3fps. And surprisingly, the Radeon HD 6790 was also competitive against the Radeon HD 6850, which the newcomer probably compensated via its higher clock speeds despite the reduced shader units. Yet another reason could be due to the newer preview Catalyst drivers the Radeon HD 6790 is running on, but that’s something we can only confirm in future.

The HIS 6790 IceQ X Turbo, with its higher clock speeds, maintained its 5% greater frame rates compared to a reference-clocked Radeon HD 6790. But at this low levels, we doubt anyone will notice the difference in frame rates.

DirectX 11 Results 


DirectX 10 Results

Join HWZ's Telegram channel here and catch all the latest tech news!
Our articles may contain affiliate links. If you buy through these links, we may earn a small commission.