Introduction

AMD's Radeon HD 7790 was announced a little while ago, and it successfully managed to establish a strong presence in the $150 segment. Its new "Bonaire" GPU, which reduces power consumption, also allows it to provide great performance per watt.

We are now seeing fully customized board designs, the first of which reached us from XFX.



The XFX HD 7790 Black Edition OC uses the company's signature cooler design and comes with an overclock on both GPU and memory. It also features twice the video memory amount: 2 GB instead of 1 GB.

While other companies will charge you a premium for these changes, XFX sticks with the reference pricing of $149.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + documentation

The Card

XFX is using the company's typical product style, which looks nice due to the metallic shine and clean, straight lines. The card is 20 cm long and 11.5 cm high.


Installing the card requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DVI ports, one full-size DisplayPort, and one full-size HDMI port. You may use all outputs at the same time.

The GPU also includes an HDMI sound device. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible, which includes HD audio and Blu-ray 3D movies support.


A single CrossFire connector is available, which allows you to combine up two Radeon HD 7790s in a multi-gpu configuration.


Pictured above are the front and back, showing the disassembled board. High-res versions are also available (front, back). If you choose to use these images for voltmods, etc., please include a link back to this site, or let us post your article.