Hot on the heels of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 550 Ti introduction, AMD releases a card with the same MSRP and vastly superior performance. But can it also stand up to the GeForce GTX 460 768 MB? We put the new card to the test!
Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
Metro 2033 uses DirectX 11-based tessellation; let’s see how these cards perform:
The Radeon HD 6790 manages to meet GeForce GTX 460 768 MB performance, and even surpass it by a couple FPS. AMD's Radeon HD 6850 leads the pack by a notable margin.
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.
