Hmm clock rates are misleading. The 6850 has a fair amount of more hardware to work with. Double the ROPs and 960 stream processor compared to 800 on the 6790. Just more core to do the heavy lifting, you'd need a pretty hefty overclock on a 6790 to close the gap. Considering it's already running higher clocks and is still slower I doubt it could even do it.
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