Final thoughts and rating
... cool and quiet as the Black Edition Overclocked 2GB is, it becomes hard to recommend in a market where more powerful cards are available for the same outlay.XFX looks to invigorate the mid-range graphics card market by releasing a Radeon HD 7790 equipped with a 2GB framebuffer. In an industry where bigger still tends to mean better, it's a good marketing move that, based on our findings, doesn't provide any performance benefit over cheaper cards with a standard 1GB framebuffer.
And adding extra memory inevitably pushes up cost. At the time of writing, the reviewed card costs £145, or over £30 more than XFX's very own Core Series 1GB clocked in at the same speeds.
We've repeated ad nauseam that it's good to see companies try something different and push the boat out some. Unfortunately for XFX, cool and quiet as the Black Edition Overclocked 2GB is, it becomes hard to recommend in a market where more powerful cards are available for the same outlay.
The Good
Decent out-of-the-box frequencies
Nice and quietThe Bad
Significant price premium over 1GB cards
Not as fast as ye olde Radeon HD 7850HEXUS rating
XFX Radeon HD 7790 Black Edition Overclocked 2GB
HEXUS Where2Buy
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