The HD 6790 enters the $150 fray.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:40:27 Tue, April 05, 2011

AMD is launching a new $150 mid-range card today called the HD 6790. It performs better than Nvidia's GTX 550 Ti but it ends up trading blows with Nvidia's two GTX 460 models. You are more likely to find the 768MB GTX 460 for around $150, but there are a few open box 1GB GTX 460s at Newegg right now. If you're an AMD purist however, the HD 6790 is what you need to get at this price range.

Here are the XFX and HIS models for your eye holes:

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4 Comments

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:58:16 PM

anonymousD
n00b

nice, wrongly priced by a good 20-30 bucks but still nice

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:07:43 PM

Casecutter
Member

Well give a few weeks once the pipe fills with more SKU's we'll see more rebates...
Didn't ever figure it would be a game changer in a already crowed market. Those who grabbed a GTS460 786Mb for ~$120 several months ago are still in good company. I'm a little surprised it's below that GTX and the 5830.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:20:48 PM

anonymousD
n00b

:)

well they cut too much under the hood so what did you expect?

w1zzard says they dont unlock,well at least his sample didnt

Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:06:45 PM

Casecutter
Member

Got a PowerColor unit for $90 several week back at Egg. Couldn't pass it up for a friends budget build.

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