Gigabyte Radeon HD7790 (2GB GDDR5) Review

Specifications & Features

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Specifications

Features

Based on the award-winning GCN Architecture, AMD Radeon™ HD 7700 Series GPUs are built to game with the world’s most advanced 28nm GPU design. And the AMD Radeon™ HD 7790 GPU is packed with incredible features, like automatic overclocking with AMD PowerTune technology, or ultra-resolution gaming with AMD Eyefinity technology. And that’s just the beginning, because these are the world’s most advanced graphics. For everyone.

• Ready for Microsoft Windows® 8!
  
• Finely tuned for awesome DirectX® 11.1 gaming, the AMD Radeon™ HD 7790 and Graphics Core Next are the perfect opportunities to ready your rig for the hottest games of the year.
• We’ve redefined the nature of performance with an all-new AMD PowerTune technology. Higher framerates and automatic overclocking are just the beginning for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7790 GPU.
  
• The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations. Face it: the best just got better.
  
• AMD HD Media Accelerator provides optimized playback and quality that can enhance colors, reduce noise and sharpen the picture in your favorite movies and videos.
• With AMD App Acceleration, use the raw power of an AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPU to accelerate your web browser, office applications, and more. Offload your tasks from your CPU to your GPU. Do more and do it faster.

Specifications

• 1000MHz Engine Clock
• 1GB GDDR5 Memory
• 1500MHz Memory Clock (6.0 Gbps GDDR5)
• 96GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
• 1.79 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
• GCN Architecture
  • 14 Compute Units (896 Stream Processors)
  • 56 Texture Units
  • 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
  • 16 Color ROP Units
  • Dual Geometry Engines
• 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11.1-capable graphics
• OpenGL 4.2 support
• Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
  • Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
• Image quality enhancement technology
  • Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing
  • Adaptive anti-aliasing
  • Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
  • Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
  • DirectX® 9/10/11 Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
• AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
  • Up to 6 displays supported
  • Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
  • Display grouping
    • Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
  • Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio (DDMA)
• AMD App Acceleration
  • Supports OpenCL™ 1.2, DirectCompute 11 & Microsoft C++ AMP
  • Double Precision Floating Point
  • AMD HD Media Accelerator
    • Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
      • H.264
      • VC-1
      • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
      • MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
      • MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
      • Adobe Flash
      • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
      • WMV HD
    • Video Codec Engine (VCE)
      • Multi-stream hardware H.264 encoder
      • Full-fixed mode: 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding
      • Hybrid mode: Stream Processor-assisted encoding
    • Enhanced Video Quality features
      • Advanced post-processing and scaling
        • Deblocking
        • Denoising
        • Automatic deinterlacing
        • Mosquito noise reduction
        • Edge enhancement
        • 3:2 pulldown detection
      • Advanced video color correction
        • Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
        • Independent video gamma control
        • Flesh tone correction
        • Color vibrance control
        • Dynamic contrast
        • Dynamic video range control
• AMD HD3D technology
  • Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
  • Blu-ray 3D support
  • Stereoscopic 3D gaming
  • 3^rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
• AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology
  • Supports dual-GPU performance scaling
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2
    • Max resolution: 4096×2160 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
    • Quad HD/4K/UHDTV video support
    • 1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
  • HDMI® (With 4K, 3D, x.v.Color™ and Deep Color)
    • Max resolution: 4096×2160
    • 1600p60 Stereoscopic 3D
    • Quad HD/4K/UHDTV video support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
    • Max resolution: 2560×1600
  • VGA
    • Max resolution: 2048×1536
• Integrated HD audio controller
  • Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  • Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
• AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology
  • Automatic power management with low power idle states
• AMD PowerTune technology with Boost
  • Dynamic performance enhancement for games
  • GPU-managed automatic overclocking
  • Intelligent thermal/power management technology
• AMD ZeroCore Power technology
  • Ultra-low idle power when the connected display is in power saving mode
  • Efficient low power mode for desktop work
  • Secondary GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration power down when unneeded
• AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
  • Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows 8
  • AMD Catalyst™ Control Center – AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
  • Unified Graphics display driver – AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.