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AMD Radeon HD 8790M Video Card Preview

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 8790M
Date: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Metro 2033

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in the Ukraine. The game is played from the perspective of a character named Artyom. The story takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, mostly inside the metro station where the player's character was raised (he was born before the war, in an unharmed city), but occasionally the player has to go above ground on certain missions and scavenge for valuables.

Metro Benchmark Settings

This is another extremely demanding game. Image quality settings were raised to 'Medium' quality with 4x AA and 16x AF. We turned off PhysX and DOF (Depth of Field) for benchmarking.

metro-benchmark

Benchmark Results: The AMD Radeon HD 7690M struggled to run the benchmark smoothly with medium settings at 1920x1080. With the AMD Radeon HD 8790M installed we noticed the benchmark ran much smoother as it improved performance by ~53% over the Radeon HD 7690M.  Running Metro 2033 on the Radeon HD 8790M still had a stutter or two at these settings, but this was easily solved by lowering the AA to 2x and keeping the image quality at medium. 

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Review Index
Page 1 - The AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Comes to Notebooks
Page 2 - Test System
Page 3 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 4 - Battlefield 3
Page 5 - Dirt: Showdown
Page 6 - Far Cry 3
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3DMark 11
Page 10 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions