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Sapphire love the pretty rendered ladies, and who can blame them. The box artwork on the HD6790 is very nice indeed. We aren't sure if she is going to kick ass or cut hair, but either is fine by us.
The bundle contains several power converter cables, a VGA adapter, literature on the Sapphire Select Club and a software disc.
The Sapphire HD6790 is built around a custom blue PCB with a modified, heatpipe cooler installed.
Above, the Sapphire HD6790 next to a reference HD6790 from AMD. We will look at cooling performance later in the review.
The HD6790 is CrossfireX capable, but only in a dual configuration.
The HD6790 requires two 6 pin power connectors. Some of you may remember that the HD5770 required only one.
Above left, the Sapphire HD6790 which has a dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort configuration. The reference board from AMD (above right) has two mini Displayport connectors instead of one full size. Both cards are Eyefinity capable.
Above, we can see the Sapphire HD6790 cooler (above left), compared against the reference AMD solution (right). The Sapphire cooler comprises three thick heatpipes which link into two sets of aluminum fins.
The Sapphire card is built on a very nice blue PCB while the AMD reference board is on black.
Both use the same Elpida W1032BABG DDR3 memory modules which we noted before on the HD6870.
At time of writing GPUz wasn't fully updated to support the HD6790.
