The Best of Computex 2014

Computex 2014, was the scene of many new products of the giant Computex ... Thats the best of Computex!

Computex Taipei, was one of the year's biggest technology trade show. Demonstrations which took place in Taiwan in the new notebooks, tablets, PCs and PC components, the first time we met with. This article describes the most prominent stars of our activities we would like to introduce to you.

America at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Anyway, he can say at Computex in Taiwan easily. Computex each year, the largest manufacturer of exciting new hardware, the scene is getting interesting concept; subject to future technology also browse through the fair chance would have.

So what is going on in Taiwan this year? Computex 2014 most prominent products in our gallery we've put together for you.

1. Asus PA328Q 

32-inch PA328Q, showed itself for the first time at Computex 2014. UAI 3840 x 2160 resolution monitor, unlike its competitors 60 frames per second can be transferred via HDMI 2.0 port. 

Asus says that the monitor developed for professional use. According to the company monitors, will be released in the fourth quarter of 2014. 

Released: 2014's fourth quarter

2. Corsair Voyager 2 

Written with an entirely new Corsair Voyager 2 external drives to the LAN or can be integrated into your network via USB or Wi-Fi access point their device for creating music and video content can provide. 

Price: 180 euros (1TB) 

Release date: June 2014 End

3. Aorus X3 / X3 Plus

Games with notebooks that name Aorus, two compact models unveiled at Computex. Aorus them X3 13.3-inch, 2560x1440 resolution for a gaming laptop. If X3 Plus is able to offer a very high resolution as 3200x1800.

 

Both devices Intel Core i7-4719HQ (2.5 GHz) is used. 8 or 16GB of DDR3 RAM, GeForce GTX 870m with equipment such as notebooks, 256 or 512GB SSD are offered with M.2. 

Price: starts from $ 2000 

Released: Probably the third quarter of 2014

4. Asus MemoPad 7/8 

MemoPad new versions 7 and 8, appeared at Computex. Both tablets with 64-bit support Intel Atom processor, while the MemoPad 8, an AC adapter and a wireless module with LTE. 8-inch model's IPS panel offers a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels and is protected by Gorilla Glass 3. 

Price: Unknown 

Release date: mid of june 2014

5.Asus Fonepad 8 

Asus, as well as a Fonepad two new MemoPad showed the 8-inch model. Fonepad 8 eponymous device, again 64-bit Intel Atom Z3560 (1.8GHz) processor is coming. Tablet with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, 3G module also allows thanks to a phone call. The device has dual SIM slots. 

Price and release date: Unknown

6. HP Pavilion x360 

13.3-inch Pavilion this revised model x360 touch screen, can be folded completely. x360 or as a tablet to be able to use a regular notebook. 

x360, hardware and Intel Core i3, AMD A8 APU offers you the choice. 

Price: starting from 630 euro 

Release date: July 9, 2014

7. HP Slate Book 

HP, the familiar notebook series next update, the Android operating system, the notebook is also preparing to launch. Slate Book, 14 inch screen, and Android 4.3 with Tegra chipset with 4 employees notebook. More than that, is not known. 

Price: starts from $ 400 

Released: July 2014 in the United States

8. Acer Liquid Jade 

Liquid Jade, Acer's new smart mobile of himself. 5-inch HD screen with Android 4.4 phone line, 14-megapixel camera comes. The device's processor and 1GB of RAM, quad-core SoC's on MediaTek. 

Released: Probably August 2014

9. Acer Leap 

Acer Leap with a fitness band, will be released in conjunction with Liquid Jade. Smart cebizi with synchronized via bluetooth band, narrow screen can show all kinds of information. 

Price: Probably will not be sold separately 

Released: Probably the third quarter of 2014

10. Asus Ares III 

Asus, the Asus Ares III again with the world's fastest graphics card was able to produce. Couples hosting Hawaii XT graphics card on the core, 8GB of GDDR5 memory and developed exclusively by EK Water Blocks cooling system with water. 

Asus plans to produce only 500 Ares III. 

Price: Probably around $ 1500

11. DDR4 RAM Adata XPG-Z1 

Computex, was the scene of the first DDR4 memory. The new memory module, X99 chipset (Haswell-E) can be used in anaktart. An exact date for the next Extreme processor is not yet determined. 

Released: 2014

12. Intel Devil's Canyon 

Intel at Computex next to the new Haswell has already introduced two new processors. Core i7-4790 and Core i5-4690, with open multiplier and the overclocking enthusiasts are targeting these properties. Both processors will be released in June. 

Price: $ 250 (Core i5-4690), $ 350 (Core i7-4790) 

Released: Probably the middle of June 2014

13.Asus Transformer Book V 

5-in-1 concept is very interesting, the Asus Transformer Book V, being a Windows notebooks and tablets, as well as Great Android can also assume a laptop and notebook. It does not stop there, thanks to smart mobile accessories mobile also offers you a Great Android. When you insert the phone into the back of the tablet, the screen is projected on the screen of the tablet. Dock, up to 1TB storage unit can contain. 

12.5 inch Intel Core processor inside the device, has 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. 5-inch smart mobile working with Intel processor and 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage space, comes with Android 4.4 operating system.

14. Asus RT-AC3200 

Asus has shown at Computex Asus RT-AC3200 new router, a full six antennas and three antenna module (Tri-Band) are coming up with. According to Asus router, 3.200 megabits per second of data transfer can do so. 

Release date and price: Unknown

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Nvidia Announces GeForce GTX 760 GPU Card

Offering high-end PC gaming performance GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 officially announced. So how much rates, and what features this card offered to the users?

Nvidia said that PC gaming is only 349 USD KDV high performance rates, smooth frame rates and GeForce GTX 760 GeForce GTX GPU, offering features announced product. Nvidia's Kepler architecture and processing power of 2.3 gigaflops of GPU-powered GeForce GTX 760, is expected to be available by the end of this year, vastly more powerful next-generation gaming consoles.

GeForce GTX 760, gamers and overclocking better customization options to meet the demands for improved performance in GPU clock speed increases automatically controls temperature and fan target, as well as the share of over-voltage and advanced water cooling solutions offering optimizations for Nvidia GPU Boost 2.0 technology. Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 at the same time, Nvidia PhysX physics engine and the latest NVIDIA technologies including TXAA supports anti-aliasing. GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GPUs based on the earlier of these properties, as well as provide a great performance upgrade. GPU GeForce GTX 275 and GeForce GTX 560 GPU three times offers more than twice the speed.

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: June 2013

Nvidia launched its GeForce GTX 780 and 770 graphics cards in the last month, the former based on GK110 and the latter built using GK104. Both are fast, but only one earned our recommendation. We discuss them, and some price moves, in this month's column.

Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great—that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.

So, if you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right card, then fear not. We at Tom’s Hardware have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming cards offered for the money.

June Updates:

Nvidia rocked the high-end graphics card world with two introductions in the last month. You can read about the first in Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Review: Titan’s Baby Brother Is Born and the second in The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?

The GeForce GTX 770 can best be described as a GeForce GTX 680 with a slight overclock (up 40 MHz to 1046 MHz) and a more notable boost (up 250 MHz to 1752 MHz). Introduced at a compelling $400, the 770 doesn't sport an exciting new GPU, but it's certainly a value leader compared to AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which tends to cost $40 to $50 more. At that price, the refreshed GK104-based board earns our recommendation.

In comparison, the GeForce GTX 780 is a de-tuned Titan with two of its SMXes disabled. The GPU still wields 2304 CUDA cores, though. In the process of slimming GK110 down, Nvidia axes the chip's advanced FP64 capabilities, dropping back to 1/24 of the FP32 rate. Gamers won't really care, though. On the plus side, GeForce GTX 780 costs $350 less than Titan. Even still, this $650 board is too expensive to garner any sort of value-oriented recommendation. It is an interesting option for builders looking to cram lots of performance into a small place with modest power use.

Nvidia is also getting more aggressive with the pricing on some of its existing products, particularly the GeForce GTX 670, which is down $20 to $350. The GeForce GTX 680 dropped $30 to $420, but with GeForce GTX 770 selling for less, informed gamers won't be touching that one. On a side note, GeForce GTX 690 and Titan are both tough to find, with single models going in and out of stock on Newegg.

As far as AMD's products go, we're seeing $10 drops on the Radeon HD 7970, 7950 Boost, 7870 2 GB, 7850 1 GB, and 7790. Unfortunately, none of those adjustments take those models close enough to competing GeForce models. In addition, we're surprised to see the average price of low-end Radeon HD 6450, 6570, and 6670 DDR3 cards increase about $10.

Some Notes About Our Recommendations

A few simple guidelines to keep in mind when reading this list:

• This list is for gamers who want to get the most for their money. If you don’t play games, then the cards on this list are more expensive than what you really need. We've added a reference page at the end of the column covering integrated graphics processors, which is likely more apropos.
• And remember to check out our new performance per dollar comparison page, where you can overlay the benchmark data we’ve generated with pricing, giving you a better idea where your ideal choice falls on the value curve. The criteria to get on this list are strictly price/performance. We acknowledge that recommendations for multiple video cards, such as two Radeon cards in CrossFire mode or two GeForce cards in SLI, typically require a motherboard that supports CrossFire or SLI and a chassis with more space to install multiple graphics cards. They also require a beefier power supply compared to what a single card needs, and will almost certainly produce more heat than a single card. Keep these factors in mind when making your purchasing decision. In most cases, if we have recommended a multiple-card solution, we try to recommend a single-card honorable mention at a comparable price point for those who find multi-card setups undesirable.
• Prices and availability change on a daily basis. We can’t base our decisions on always-changing pricing information, but we can list some good cards that you probably won’t regret buying at the price ranges we suggest, along with real-time prices from our PriceGrabber engine, for your reference.
• The list is based on some of the best U.S. prices from online retailers. In other countries or at retail stores, your mileage will most certainly vary.
• These are new card prices. No used or open-box cards are in the list; they might represent a good deal, but it’s outside the scope of what we’re trying to do.

Announces Twin Frozr GTX 780 Graphics Card

Designed for players new generation of MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Twin Frozr GTX 780 architecture unveiled. MSI's exclusive Twin Frozr cooling system using technology offers high performance video card players.

Showcased at Computex 2013 exhibition held in Taiwan issued a new generation of MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 based GTX 780 Twin Frozr model was officially launched. 954MHz'lik 780'deki 1006 MHz clock speed is increased, the standard GTX graphics card, 3GB of GDDR5 memory and 384-bit memory's.

 
Nickel and copper plated Twin Frozr IV graphics card cooling system is used, with copper pipes and large aluminum blocks on the CPU and the heat distributed RAM2 the upper section being taken out of the heat with the 2 100mm fan. GTX 780 Twin Frozr running 25.7dB noise level of the average operating temperature of 67 degrees. Red and black colors are used on a very stylish design, the graphics card, 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort 1xHDMI and amenities. GTX 780 Twin Frozr is not yet known when it will be sold and the price.

External Graphics Over PCIe 3.0? Netstor's NA255A, Reviewed

External Graphics Over PCIe 3.0? Netstor's NA255A, Reviewed

Netstor sent over its TurboBox NA255A, an external enclosure capable of accommodating four dual-slot graphics cards across one 16-lane PCI Express 3.0 connection. Is this thing fast enough for general-purpose GPU compute workloads? How about gaming?
Although we're starting to see more mainstream-oriented applications optimized for OpenCL, allowing graphics processors to help speed up performance, general-purpose GPU-accelerated software is still most pointedly aimed at the server and workstation space. Much of that has to do with optimizations for CUDA, which only Nvidia's GPUs support. But OpenCL is gaining traction for video editing, compression, image manipulation, and even bitcoin mining.
When all-out compute power is your priority, connecting multiple GPUs is a great way to push more performance in those apps. Going so far as getting four graphics processors working together in CrossFire or SLI can really help boost the tasks able to utilize them. And we're not talking about gaming, either. We've seen enough examples of three-card scaling tapering off, as four cards don't improve frame rates at all. No, three- and four-way setups are often the domain of power users in need of massive floating-point math.
If you're in the distinguished group of folks able to use four dual-slot graphics cards cooperatively, then you face a handful of configuration issues to overcome. What motherboard do you use? Which case do you pick? Is there a power supply with enough auxiliary connectors for the cards you're using? And how on earth do you plan to keep all of that hardware cool? Even if you get everything set up just the way you want, don't expect to have room left over for any other PCI Express-based upgrade.

But what if you could externalize all of the hardware involved, and maintain a relatively quiet host workstation? What would it take to house all of that hardware? Well, you'd need a large-enough enclosure, able to accommodate eight slots worth of back-panel I/O. You'd need a motherboard with at least four PCI Express x16 slots for the graphics cards. Power delivery would be of the utmost importance, of course. And cooling would be a lynchpin, not only for keeping four stacked boards running stably, but also for keeping the configuration quiet enough to use in the same room.

Meet Netstor's solution, called the TurboBox NA255A. It looks a lot like a mid-tower PC, but its application is far more specific. Designed to function as a PCI Express 3.0-connected expansion box, the NA255A comes with its own 1,000 W power supply and cooling fans. Its sole purpose in life is to add a quartet of PCIe x16 slots (electrically wired to run at x8 transfer rates) and two x4 slots to your list of expansion options. The whole thing is fed by a single 16-lane expansion card that drops into your host workstation, attaching externally.

One third-gen PCI Express x16 slot is able to push up to 16 GB/s per direction. Although there is overhead involved, you still get a ton of bidirectional throughput. Put differently, you can get close to the same transfer rate from one 16-lane PCIe 3.0 slot as four of the eight-lane slots commonly used to create multi-GPU arrays on Sandy Bridge-based platforms.
In theory, that's enough to game on, though this enclosure isn't really designed for the gaming market. Rather, it's intended to serve the folks looking to sling several graphics cards together for massive general-purpose GPU computing. We're interested in both possible use cases, so we're running benchmarks that apply to both segments.

The enclosure itself measures 18" x 14" x 7". It's very solid, finished in brushed aluminum with grating in the front to encourage airflow. Netstor is going for that Apple aesthetic, it appears. And for what it's worth, the TurboBox is compatible with both PCs and Macs. Because modern Mac Pros only give you one second-gen 16-lane slot and two four-lane slots, with a combined output of 300 W, it's hardly a surprise that Netstor is looking to extend compatibility to that platform as well.

One card goes into your host machine and another goes into the TurboBox itself. Cables between the two interface boards facilitate the external connectivity.

But it's what's inside the TurboBox that matters most. You'll find a Surestar TC-1000PL 1,000 W power supply, two 120 mm hot-swappable fans, a 9.5" x 11.7" PCB (NP952A-GPU), and a 6" x 4" PCIe interface card (NP970A).

Setup And Overcoming Issues

In theory, populating the NA255A should be as easy as dropping in graphics cards, connecting their power leads, and hooking the external enclosure up to the host PC's PCI Express card. The TurboBox is designed to extend standardized interfaces, so no software driver should be necessary. In the real world, though, setup isn't quite that easy.
We encountered a couple of snags along the way. First, I initially didn't realize that the PCIe-based interface cards have specific I/Os. If you look closely, one port on each card is etched with a x16 and the other is etched with a x8. I accidentally hooked the x16 up to the x8 and vice versa. The mistake was easy to reverse, but it doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere in Netstor's documentation.

The second hang-up was a little more worrisome. Mainly, I couldn't get the TurboBox working at PCI Express 3.0 signaling rates. First- and second-gen PCI Express worked fine. But when the jumped was set to PCIe 3.0, the enclosure stopped recognizing the graphics cards I was plugging in. Netstor helped us work through the issue, which involved reconfiguring switches on the interface cards. This solved our issue.
Our third issue wasn't the TurboBox's fault at all. During our first round of benchmarks, we saw odd performance drops with three Radeon HD 7970s installed. Much troubleshooting revealed that some of our Tahiti-based boards weren't working together the way they should have. It turned out that boards from different vendors shipped with incompatible firmware, which hampered multi-card configurations (even though this should have been fine). Mixing and matching products, even those from the same family, is asking for trouble. Fortunately, we worked around the problem with a different card combo.

Finally, we weren't able to test four Radeon HD 7970s at the same time. Again, this wasn't Netstor's fault, however. The TurboBox is absolutely able to accommodate a quartet of dual-slot boards. But because some of the 7970s in our lab are a little larger, they don't fit into the strict space limitations of two expansion slots. As a result, we're testing with three Radeon HD 7970s. It all works out, though: the ASRock X79 Extreme9 motherboard I'm using only has room for three 7970s anyway, so that's our hard limit for comparing native on-board connectivity to the performance of Netstor's device.

Test System And Benchmarks

Our test system is built around Intel's X79 Express chipset, with 8 GT/s transfer rates to each 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot. We're going to measure the performance of native connectivity and the TurboBox using one, two, and three GPUs in each solution. This should tell us whether there's any penalty for externalizing graphics, or for interfacing with the enclosure over a single third-gen PCI Express x16 slot. Part of our testing also involves comparisons between PCIe 2.0 and 3.0, quantifying the benefits of modern technology versus what came before.
As mentioned, we're using three Radeon HD 7970s cards for testing, all of which are set to AMD's reference core and memory clock rates.
A number of games should help us flesh out 3D performance, while LuxMark and GUIMiner stand in as OpenCL-accelerated benchmarks. Although we know that the TurboBox isn't a gaming-oriented product, a few tests at 1920x1080 and 5760x1080 should shed some light on its performance potential.
 

Tweaker Turns GeForce GTX 690 Into a Quadro K5000

A user from the EEV forums has figured out how to turn a GTX 690 into a Quadro K5000 card, or at least make it appear so.
A user from the EEV forums has figured out a way to turn the dual GPU GTX 690 into a Quadro K5000 graphics card. While the K5000 might be a single GPU part, the modification to the GTX 690 turns one of the GPUs into a Quadro K5000 chip. The Quadro K5000 card is a business-oriented card that costs about twice as much as a GTX 690 and requires special drivers to run.
The user's motive to modify the card was that GeForce cards might support Nvidia Surround in Windows but do not support this under Linux. The Quadro cards, apart from different memory, are almost identical to the consumer cards. That supports this feature, which led the user to believe that it would be a driver issue that could be resolved by making the Linux box think that it was running a K5000 graphics card.


This was correct, and by a simple hardware modification on the PCB, the PCI Device ID can be changed so that the system drivers believe that it is actually running a Quadro card. We do know if the system sees the card as a Quadro K5000 card, but we cannot be sure about whether it actually performs like one or if it is entirely bug-free. Nvidia's Quadro cards carry ECC enabled memory that the consumer graphics cards lack.


Sadly, Nvidia hasn't responded to the story, and the forum posting where the process was explained has been taken offline.
This trick can not only be applied to this card; we've seen it in the past with other graphics cards. For example, currently, users could possibly utilize the same trick to turn a GTX 660 Ti or a GTX 670 into a GTX 680. The already disabled CUDA cores remain disabled though, so there will not be a full performance benefit. Taking a more interesting example though, perhaps we might see users apply the same process to the GTX Titan, turning it back into a Tesla K20(X) card and saving a lot of money in the process.
Tell us, if you had a GTX Titan or GTX 690, would you consider giving this trick a shot?

AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review: Graphics Core Next At $150

After a long and lonely reign, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti is finally being challenged at the $150 price point. Does AMD's Bonaire-based Radeon HD 7790 offer enough performance to put up a fight, or is its familiar GCN architecture too little, too late?
It feels a little strange introducing AMD's Radeon HD 7790 today. The Pitcairn-based cards were launched more than a year ago (AMD Radeon HD 7870 And 7850 Review: Pitcairn Gets Benchmarked), and we figured they'd be the last additions to the 7000-series, particularly when so much time passed without an official Radeon HD 7990. Instead, we were hoping to see the company's next-gen Radeon HD 8000 family. It looks like that isn't going to happen, though (at least, not based on any sort of new technology; AMD appears happy repackaging Graphics Core Next as the 8000-series and handing it off to OEMs for now).
That's not to say that the Radeon HD 7790 isn't a good idea. Frankly, we're surprised it took AMD this long to give us a product in between the $120 Radeon HD 7770 and $180 Radeon HD 7850 1 GB. The $60 spread between those two parts opened AMD up to a surgical strike from Nvidia, which dominated the $150 price point with its GeForce GTX 650 Ti. Moreover, AMD is suggesting that we shouldn't expect the Radeon HD 7850 1 GB to hang around much longer...at least at its current price.
The stage is consequently set for something new; an answer to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, if you will. Meet AMD's Bonaire GPU, on which the Radeon HD 7790 is based:

When we first started hearing about it, we thought the Radeon HD 7790 might sport a cut-back Pitcairn graphics processor, just like the engineering sample that our German team acquired back in May of last year. But Bonaire is all-new, making it the fourth Graphics Core Next-based chip from AMD. Sporting 2.08 billion transistors and a 160 square-millimeter die, it is likewise manufactured on TSMC’s 28 nm node, similar to the rest of AMD's Radeon HD 7000 family. It's actually 52 square millimeters smaller than Pitcairn, and 37 square millimeters larger than the Cape Verde silicon driving the Radeon HD 7700s.
Bonaire hosts 14 compute units (CUs), each of which contains four vector units (VUs). The VUs have 16 Stream processors and one texture unit. All told, Bonaire hosts 896 shaders and 56 texture units. The chip's back-end is composed of four render partitions, each capable of four full-color raster operations per clock. AMD calls this 16 ROPs. Two 64-bit memory controllers yield an aggregate 128-bit memory bus.

From an architectural standpoint, Bonaire features the same GCN architecture as AMD's current line-up. The company does make some tweaks to its power delivery, though, employing eight distinct states instead of four. This added granularity should help the GPU operate at the right voltage and clock rate for each workload. AMD claims this also facilitates higher peak frequencies. Transitions between states are apparently as fast as 10 ms, or about an order of magnitude quicker than changes to Nvidia's GPU Boost technology, and based on load, current limits, or the GPU's thermal ceiling.
Ultimately, the mechanism underlying AMD's updated PowerTune technology (which also surfaces in the Richland-based APUs) is less important than its actual impact on power and performance. In one workload we ran (Crysis 3), we saw the Radeon HD 7790 use a few watts less than a Cape Verde-based card. However, it's also possible to go the other way, yielding more performance at higher power.
How do the card's specs look compared to the competition?

 Realistically, the Radeon HD 7790 replaces AMD's old Radeon HD 6870, a card that offered significantly more memory bandwidth, but less compute potential as a result of its now-two-generation-old VLIW5 architecture. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti also looks like a close match, delivering similar performance specifications, though the 7790's TDP is 25 W lower.
Like the Pitcairn-based Radeon HD 7800-series cards (and the Cayman-based cards before those), Bonaire's front-end employs dual geometry and tessellation engines, facilitating two primitives per clock. The Cape Verde GPU can only do 1 primitive/clock. In theory, geometry-heavy games should consequently favor the Radeon HD 7790 over the 7770 or 7750. All the while, Radeon HD 7790 is an 85 W part. That's only 5 W more than the Radeon HD 7770.

Sapphire HD 7790 Dual-X

AMD didn't ship out reference designs for this launch, instead opting to have partners send out their own boards. Sapphire shipped us its HD 7790 Dual-X as an example of what the Radeon HD 7790 can do. Measuring 8.5" x 4.5" x 1.5" for the PCB and fan, it's about 1.5" shorter than the reference Radeon HD 7870.

Sapphire's card includes 1 GB of RAM, though we'd be surprised if 2 GB models don't start showing up at some point, too. The reference memory frequency is 1,500 MHz (6 GT/s, effectively), but Sapphire overclocks an additional 100 MHz to help overcome the base specification's more limited bandwidth. The card's graphics core is also overclocked to 1,075 MHz, a 75 MHz boost. AMD tells us that Radeon HD 7790 cards will start at $150 but we do not know how much more this tuned version will cost. No doubt, it'll be more than entry-level models running at reference frequencies. (Update: Sapphire's card should sell for $160, $10 more than reference-class 7790s, according to company representatives).
The back of Sapphire's board is interesting in that it includes quite a bit of unused space.

The Dual-X comes with dual- and single-link DVI outputs as, well as full-sized HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. Bonaire actually supports as many as six displays in Eyefinity; however, this is going to require unique output configurations and DisplayPort MST hubs. In Sapphire's case, the HD 7790 Dual-X can accommodate up to three displays.

Given its 85 W thermal ceiling, AMD needed to add one six-pin auxiliary power connector to complement a 16-lane slot's 75 W. The Dual-X cooler comes equipped with two 75 mm axial fans and two heat pipes. There's a single CrossFire connector on top of the card, indicating you can run two 7790s in tandem, but three- and four-way configurations are not possible.

Sapphire's bundle includes a four-to-six-pin power adapter. We're not fans of these, but considering that the Radeon HD 7790's TDP is just 10 W more than PCI Express' electromechanical specification, we aren't as concerned as we might have otherwise been. You'll also find an HDMI cable, a DVI-to-VGA adapter, a CrossFire connector, documentation, and a driver CD in the card's packaging.

Test Setup And Benchmarks

I don't think we've ever been given so little time to review a graphics card. So, we're focusing on testing where it matters most: the popular 1920x1080 desktop resolution. If you have three screens, expect to spend more on a graphics card better-suited to 5760x1080.
We're including Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti as the 7790's most obvious competition. We also have AMD's Radeon HD 7770 and 7850 1 GB, representing the cards surrounding 7790 in AMD's line-up. In addition, the older Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce GTX 560 should show us how the new card stands up to older technology. And as always, factory-overclocked settings are dialed back to the reference specification.

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