AMD Radeon HD 8790M Video Card Preview

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

We ran 3DMark11 with both the performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Benchmark Results: The AMD Radeon HD 7690M scored 1441 3DMarks and the Radeon HD 8790M scored 2601 3DMarks in 3DMark11 with the performance preset. This makes the Radeon HD 8790M around 80% faster than the AMD Radeon HD 7690M!