14 DAY TRIAL // It only took a few days for most of the information regarding AMD's yet unreleased Radeon HD 6790 graphics card to come out into the open, and now the last piece of the puzzle has made its appearance as some early benchmarks of the card just made their way to the Web together with its price.
These results were posted just a few hour ago on a Czech hardware review website, but were removed soon after they were posted.
However, a user of the XtremeSystems forum managed to save a couple of the images detailing the results of the card right before the review was removed, so now we know how the HD 6790 performs against the rest of the AMD and Nvidia midrange solutions.
Judging by these results it becomes apparent that, at least in Crysis, the card easily surpasses Nvidia's GTX 550 Ti and winds up somewhere in between the 768MB version of the GTX 460 and the 1GB version of the same video card.
As far as power consumption is concerned, the HD 6790 seems to be on par with the 1GB GTX 460 in Metro 2033 although it uses 12W more than its Nvidia counterpart while idle in the Windows desktop.
When compared with AMD's solution, the power consumption is right between that of the HD 6850 and HD 6870 in load even when the card is overclocked.
This seems to suggest that the Radeon HD 6790 isn't as power hungry as everyone initially thought, although it definitely isn't the most energy efficient solution in AMD's arsenal.
As previous reports have detailed, the HD 6790 is based on a cut down version of the Barts core, dubbed Barts LE, and packs 800 stream processors, 40 texturing units, 32 ROP units and a 256-bit memory bus that connects to 1GB of GDDR5 memory.
The Radeon HD 6790 will be officially launched by AMD on April 5, and according to the same review its price is set at $149 USD, just as the Nvidia GTX 550 Ti.
