<p><span style="font-size: small;"> The last couple of weeks after the recent </span><span style="font-size: small;">GeForce GTX 550 Ti launch</span><span style="font-size: small;"> have been more eventful than I had initially been expecting. As you may recall the GTX 550 Ti launched at $150, a price tag too high for its sub-6850 performance. I&rsquo;m not sure in what order things happened &ndash; whether it was a price change or a competitive card that came first &ndash; but GTX 550 Ti prices have finally come down for some of the cards. The average price of the cheaper cards is now around $130, a more fitting price given the card&rsquo;s performance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> The timing for this leads into today&rsquo;s launch. AMD is launching a new card, the Radeon HD 6790, at that same $150 price point. Based on the same Barts GPU that powers the Radeon HD 6800 series, this is AMD&rsquo;s customary 3^rd tier product that we&rsquo;ve come to expect after the 4830 and 5830. As we&rsquo;ll see NVIDIA had good reason to drop the price on the GTX 550 if they didn&rsquo;t already, but at the same time AMD must still deal with the rest of the competition: NVIDIA&rsquo;s GTX 460 lineup, and of course AMD itself. So just how well does the 6790 stack up in the crowded $150 price segment? Let&rsquo;s find out.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4260/amds-radeon-hd-6790-coming-up-short-at-150">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>