First Pictures of MSI Radeon HD 6790 Emerge

Pictures of the Radeon HD 6790 graphics card seem to be pouring in lately, as after Sapphire's board has made it out to light, it's now time to take a look at one of MSI's mainstream solutions built on top of the Barts LE core.

Just as Sapphire, MSI also decided to reuse one of the cooling solutions that the company has used for the Radeon HD 6850, so the card doesn't differ all that much from other MSI products built using AMD GPUs.

The cooling system, however, seems to be pretty effective as it uses no less than three copper heatpipes to draw the heat away from the core and into an aluminum heatsink that spans most of the card.

This is covered by a rather tacky red and black plastic shroud that has the role of distributing the air generated by the 90mm fan over the entire surface of the PCB.

Outside of the new cooling system used, MSI's creation doesn't seem to differ to much from the Sapphire board that we got to see a few days ago, but it does feature a different video output arrangement.

This swaps the DisplayPort connector found on Sapphire's take on the HD 6790 for a pair of mini-DP ports, which are paired with an HDMI connector and two dual-link DVI video outputs.

Other details are not available at this time, but the card is expected to use AMD's reference clocks which rumors suggest are set at 840MHz for the GPU and 1050MHz for the memory (4200MHz effective).

As far as the Barts LE GPU is concerned, this packs 800 stream processors, 40 texturing units, 32 ROP units and a 256-bit memory interface that is connected to 1GB of GDDR5 video buffer.

Besides the actual card, MSI's Radeon HD 6790 is shipped together with the company's Afterburner overclocking software as well as with some kind of adapter, possibly a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort dongle. (via VR-Zone)