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AMD Radeon HD 6790 - Confusing and Unnecessary

By Kenny Yeo - 21 Apr 2011

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Results

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Results

On S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, it was a stalemate between our simulated Radeon HD 6790 and the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, seeing that both cards managed frame rates that were pretty close, although it could be argued that the Radeon HD 6790 was marginally faster. The reference-clocked Radeon HD 6790 also trailed the Radeon HD 6850, especially when we disabled tessellation and ran using the older DirectX 10 API.

The HIS 6790 IceQ X Turbo, with its higher clock speeds, maintained its steady performance posting frame rates that were about 5% faster than a reference card. It could even match the Radeon HD 6850 when we enabled tessellation.  

DirectX 11 Results


DirectX 10 Results

 

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