AMD Radeon HD 6790 Graphics Card Review
Futuremark 3DMark11
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11, is specifically bound to Windows Vista and 7-based systems because it uses the advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 11, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
The new Radeon HD 6790 turns the tables in the 3DMark11 benchmark. Here, AMD's new affordable GPU is able to outpace both the stock and factory-overclocked GeForce GXT 550 Ti, but trails the GeForce GTX 460. The Radeon HD 6790 finished about 20% behind the Radeon HD 6850 as well.
