Will AMD Sapphire 7790 HD be good enough for gaming in 2014?

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Matt Daray

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Right now, I'm cross-firing AMD Sapphire 7790 HD cards and I'm wondering if that will be good enough to run most games in 2014 on high to ultra settings with little to no framerate issues (for example, I plan on getting the Witcher 3, which I REALLY want to play on some high-end settings). Will this get me through this year and if not, are there any cheap to moderately expensive ($400 per card max) I can get?
 
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CF HD 7790 is nearly the same as single HD 7950 and HD 7950 is quite capable to handle today's games with most of high setting but not ultra. But CF sometime stuttered when you play games (my experience). For the next gen games you should be fine with your current engine. If you want more performance, you could replace your...
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CF HD 7790 is nearly the same as single HD 7950 and HD 7950 is quite capable to handle today's games with most of high setting but not ultra. But CF sometime stuttered when you play games (my experience). For the next gen games you should be fine with your current engine. If you want more performance, you could replace your current GPUs with single R9 280x or even R9 290 one if you prefer AMD, and the GTX 770 if you prefer Nvidia. It should give more boost in performance. SInce the 290 can run all games today with ultra setting. I dont mention the monster 290x because it will be overbudget for you.
Hope this will help.
 
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winningsince1337

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Hate to be a hater but this just isn't true...

The Xbone has 768 shaders based off the Bonaire chip (7790 aka R7 260x however these are fully unlocked and have 896 shaders)
The PS4 has 1152 shaders based off the Pitcairn GPU (7870 aka R9 270x)

EDIT: To answer the OP's question, I say wait until nVidia's Maxwell 20nm based GPUs come out this year. You'll get more performance at lower temps in comparison to current gen cards. 2 7790s is good enough to play (most) games maxed at 1080p.
 
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It might be the card for the Xbox One and PS4,and Im not even sure if it actually is, But those platforms are also heavily optimized. Something PCs lack.

I would just get a Single GTX 760/770 or AMD R Series 260x/270x and call it a day. Just to avoid X-Fire Issues.
 
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One thing to note about consoles, they're only running games at 720 usually. For example, the xbone runs BF4 at 720p and then upscales it to 1080p. The PS4 plays BF4 at 900p then upscales it to 1080. This is all at roughly equivalent to medium settings. Lower res, lower settings, worse end result.

The 260x is a 7790 with an extra gig of unuseable ram slapped on it. Plus, CF 7790's have more power than a 270x and are on par or faster than a 760. Besides already being paid for... AMD has fixed the whole stuttering issue with frame pacing.
 
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I figured the fact that Consoles were running at 720p was a given but okay
 
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2 7790 are not gonna reach the level of a 7950. The 7790 are 128bit bus limited where compared to a 7950 of 384 bit bus. Mayb a 7850 cf will reached the level of 7950 not a 7790. And no 7790 cf will not play 2014 games in high or ultra. U might end up luckily getting medium but ur main factors highly crippling you are the bus bit and vram. 1 gb vram on 128 bit is not sufficient to ace the next gen games. Remember most consoles games are heavily tweaked to run them as compared to pc.
 
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This is an approximation that is very close to the truth
the gpu of both PS4 and XBox1 are based on "GCN" architecture.of Radeon series HD 7000. Yes PS4 has more shaders but the clock speed is 800MHz vs 853MHz of XBox1 . In addition , XBox1 has 8 cores at 1.75GHz but PS4 - 8 cores x 1.6GHz. The slower DDR3 of XBox1 is compensated by 32MB Esram . All these things gave me ground to state that both consoles had something like HD 7790 . If you want more accurate results , feel free to do tests yourself i would examine them with pleasure. Furthermore , If HD 7790 turns out faster than XBox1 . this would mean HD 7790 would be very future proof.
 
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how come the HD 7950 can't run most of games today on ultra? i have HD 7870 XT, and i can run almost all 2013-2014 games on ultra or tweaked ultra settings.
 
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