Sapphire Unveils Radeon Hd 7790 Simcity Edition Graphics Card

[Jozi]

AMD's recent free SimCity game bundle with most A8- and A10-series sub-$150 APUs baffled analysts, particularly with how AMD is bundling a gift with market price of $60, with products starting at $80. It looks like certain AMD add-in board (AIB) partners are striking similar deals with EA. A case in point is Sapphire, which decided to bundle the game with a special edition Radeon HD 7790 graphics card, which for now appears to be a Japan-exclusive. We're not sure how the SimCity inclusion affects the Never Settle bundle eligibility of the card, which should also fetch its owners Far Cry 3, and a 20% discount coupon for Medal of Honor: Warfighter. We don't imagine Sapphire to price its card significantly higher than its stock trim. The card itself looks identical to the HD 7790 2 GB the company recently announced, albeit with just 1 GB of memory, lacking a back-plate, and featuring reference AMD clock speeds of 1000 MHz core and 6.00 GHz memory.

 

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/183409/Sapphire-Unveils-Radeon-HD-7790-SimCity-Edition-Graphics-Card.html

 

[911^NEmeSis]

Pretty nice deal, how are they doing this?

[Si3Rra_7]

Is it going to have bad VRM , like the game has bad DRM ?

[Jay123]

Is it going to have bad VRM , like the game has bad DRM ?

I see what you did there B)

[mgsstar]

EA is giving away their games in order to get more people to play their games lol

[eshbop]

Thank someone, Sapphire finally turning to matte black PCBs.

 

Should of slapped 2GB of VRAM on it though otherwise you might be finding your crippling the textures or running <1080p gaming.

[carolkarine]

so I'm getting a 7790 and some DRM'ed trash that can't live up to simcity 4, ever? I might as well just buy a normal 7790 then.

[nath10597]

I think EA forced the servers to keep crashing so peoplr talked about that and distract people of how bad it is; it worked.

[XiaoPigs]

As always thanks for sharing news with us Jozi. Just make sure as Linus has mentioned on the latest livestream to give your own opinion on the news in the future, to avoid turning us into one of those sites that just copy and paste news from  other sources. Cheers!

[Jozi]

As always thanks for sharing news with us Jozi. Just make sure as Linus has mentioned on the latest livestream to give your own opinion on the news in the future, to avoid turning us into one of those sites that just copy and paste news from  other sources. Cheers!

I'll probably leave news posting to other people.

 

Edit. So finally got back from work where I almost broke my thumb and finished watching livestream. No more news coming from me.

[Nicktrance]

Is it going to have bad VRM , like the game has bad DRM ?

 

They should have called it 7790 DRM Edition xD

[Jozi]

I'll probably leave news posting to other people.

 

Edit. So finally got back from work where I almost broke my thumb and finished watching livestream. No more news coming from me.

Nobody from forum staff said anything for me about this in the forums. Instead I hear in livestream "Jozi you are making ma forum one of these butthead sites". So yeah. Would have been nice to receive pm in forums and not in livestream.

[silencerbob]

Will the card not work for he first four days till they open more cores?