AMD is adding another card to round-out their 6700 series selection: the Radeon HD 6790. It is aimed performance/upper mid-range market and will be retailing for $149. It’s supposed to lie between the 6850 and 5770/6770 in terms of performance and compete with the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 550Ti. Including all of the features common to other 6700 series cards, like 16 render back-end units, this should offer a great 1080p gaming experience for consumers.
It is note worthy that just about all of these specifications are below the 6870. Granted, it isn’t aimed to compete with the 6870, but that is all that I had here to compare with. This comparison will certainly give some perspective on performance/price scaling in the AMD ranks, though. Also by that comparison, it is easy to see that these specs are a little more for the mainstream to mid-level gaming arena.

I’m not going to post the normal plethora of different angled pictures showing off every nook and cranny of this card because AMD has assured me the sample they sent will never see the light of day. All of their partners are releasing their own designs and some even come with only one extra power plug. AMD was gracious enough to include some shots of these products that should be available now or in the near future. I’m extremely grateful to see none of these cards are using the mouse wheel style fan because those create way too much noise.

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