AMD just announced its new Radeon HD 7790 graphics processor (GPU) which will go in add-on cards immediately from close to ten partners right away. This new chip uses a new design which was created to improve the performance for the price, and for the power consumption, two key metrics when “absolute performance” (at any cost) is no longer the name of the game.
The Radeon 7790 uses the Graphics Core Next architecture that was unveiled to developers in late 2011, and currently used in high-end AMD cards, it improves performance by increasing the transistor density when compared to previous architectures. This allows for much faster geometry and tessellation engines, which are powering critical DirectX 11 features (it’s a DX11.1 chip by the way). (more…)
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