Now that AMD’s Radeon HD 7790 is in the hands of their partners we can expect to see a variety of card flavors which will include everything from custom cooling solutions to the typical layout changes of the board itself. This of course is all part of the excitement that comes with the release of a new GPU, not to mention all of the speculation regarding performance numbers, cooling capabilities, how much overhead is available for overclocking as well as power efficiency.

AMD’s latest addition to the 7000 series product stack may be an entry level graphics solution, but by no means should it be taken lightly. The HD7790 offers incredible performance at its price point and is easily one of the best budget-priced GPU’s on the market today. It packs some of AMD's hottest features including eight independent DPM states, PowerPlay and PowerTune technologies to name a few.

The particular HD7790 I will be examining in our labs today is manufactured by PowerColor. The company’s TurboDuo HD7790 1GB OC is just one of the many variants available on the market now, and it sports a black and red color scheme along with a military styling giving the board an extremely aggressive look and feel to it.