Asus Radeon HD 7790 Graphics Card Review

When over clocking graphics cards, I do tend to favour towards an Asus card as their power delivery and better components tend to give far better clocks when pushing the GPU cores to their limits and this applies to both AMD and NVIDIA powered boards. Naturally this gives me a good felling that knowing where the Bonaire core has been over clocking to so far, I should hopefully able to raise the bar a little more.

Using MSI’s Afterburner as my tried and tested OC tool, once again I’ve not been let down by an Asus card. With a whopping over clock of 215MHz, bringing the core up from 1075MHz to 1290Mhz a gain of exactly 20% was found and on the memory side, an extra 100MHz bringing the speed up to 1700MHz (64.GHz effective) was also found. Sadly 1300MHz was just out of reach for the Asus card today, which would have been a fantastic achievement but 1290MHz is still 17MHz faster than MSI’s card which we looked at prior to this.

As expected, having the fastest clock speed also means a better 3DMark score. Coming in with an improved score of X1903 from X1659, works out as a 14.7% improvement and another job well done on the over clocking front for Asus.