3DMark 11
“3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.” From 3DMark.com
at £125, it takes it into 7850 1gb territory, I concur with your conclusion, its certainly overpriced, and limited by that 128 bit bus width, for the same money you could get the 256 bit 7850 1gb, the memory throughput is so much better, and will allow the VRAM to be overclocked, SCAN has an MSI 7850 1gb for just £123.34, making this 2gb 7790 variant redundant.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-msi-radeon-hd-7850-4800mhz-gddr5-28nm-gpu-860mhz-1024-cores-hdmi-2x-mdp-dl-dvi-i