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HIS 7790 iCooler Turbo 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2013-05-20

The new HIS 7790 iCooler Turbo card is well balanced and recommended to people on a tighter budget who will want to upgrade their old GPU in order to be able to play the latest games on monitors up to 24’’. The cooling system is simpler compared to the offerings from XFX or PowerColor and an overclocking utility is supplied on the HIS website for added value.

An even Closer Look

In order to take a look at the front PCB, we only had to remove four screws which are provided with springs; between the springs and the back side of the PCB, HIS has used black plastic washers:

As we have seen with the PowerColor card, HIS has also covered the VRM area with a linear black heatsink with fins, which is held secure with the help of two additional screws:

The memory chips are manufactured by Hynix and come with the H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C code name. These are identical to the ones we have found on the Powercolor and XFX 7790 card, and have done 1600MHz easy from their 1500MHz rated speed:

Near the two memory ICs we can also find the PCI-Express power connector along with the PWM fan header that we have mentioned earlier:

Here is also a shot of the AMD Bonaire 7790 GPU built at TSMC on the 28mm process:

If we look a little closer on the back side of the cooling solution, we will find a larger copper plate, with holes for the mounting screws in each corner; between this plate and the PCB itself, HIS has also used some tiny black plastic spacers:

The HIS 7790 iCooler Turbo has both GPU and memory clocks raised from Radeon HD 7790 vanilla:

Comment from jmke @ 2013/05/20

is there a 2GB version of the 7790? with multi monitor setup's having only 1GB can be a bottleneck

Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2013/05/21

As far as I can see, there is no 2GB version, but anyway, I wouldn't bother gaming in a multi-monitor setup with a single 7790 since the results would be quite choppy. For a single 24'' monitor with medium and sometimes high settings it could work fine (considering that you also have a powerful CPU in order to gain a tiny amount of frames too and to avoid any limitations).

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