GIGABYTE GV-R779OC-1GD Pro Reviews

Gigabyte's £125 HD 7790 OC is decent in most regards but doesn't stand out in any one area. PowerColor's £120 HD 7790 Turbo Duo has better cooling and overclocks just a tad more, but the best of the bunch, from a purely product perspective, is the Sapphire, which has the best cooling, lowest temperatures and better-configured outputs. Trouble is, it costs £130 and, as a consequence of close pricing of other, better GPUs, is also difficult to recommend.

The AMD Radeon HD 7790 was found to be a solid card for the $150 price point, but NVIDIA has yet to release this cards true competition!

First let’s talk performance... for a mid-range to budget GPU the Radeon HD 7790 is everything we have come to expect from the current generation. Neither AMD nor Nvidia are at risk of blowing your socks off when spending less than $250 on either current range of GPUs. Ideally we suggest gamers try to get their hands on either a GeForce GTX 660 Ti or Radeon HD 7870. There's an invisible threshold between those and lower-end graphics cards that translate into the possibility of enjoying all of today's PC games in their full visual glory at reasonable resolutions. So then, at $150 we weren’t expecting to be blown away with the 7790, and we weren’t. The GPU does what everyone expected it to, it fills the gap between the 7770 and 7850 in terms of price and performance. There is nothing special about this card that would make you purchase it over either of those two existing options, other than the obvious scenario where you have exactly $150 to spend on a new graphics card.