There are new details about the 3D-card AMD Radeon HD 7790 (Bonaire)

As we reported , AMD plans to fill in its range interval between 3D-cards Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7850 1GB for approximately $ 110 and $ 170, respectively. Novelty should come direct competitor model NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti ($ 150). Not to use it expensive GPU Pitcairn (2,8 billion transistors) AMD specialists developed a new model code-named Bonaire.

According to preliminary data, the card will be called Radeon HD 7790. It will be based on the architecture of Graphics CoreNext and get 896 stream processors. The performance of Radeon HD 7790 by about 10% yield HD 7850, performing on par with the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, but AMD will be able to maneuver to improve cost competitiveness.

Among the measures aimed at reducing the cost, in addition to a smaller area of ​​the crystal, called the use of a smaller number of memory chips, which will reduce the cost of the power subsystem. HD 7790 release is expected in April.

Source: Hardware.info