AMD HD7770 & HD7750 Roundup: Sapphire, XFX and HIS

The XFX HD7750 Black Edition Overclocked box is stylish, like all XFX packaging. An image of the actual card would be beneficial however, especially as the board design is very attractive.

The XFX bundle is a little disappointing, especially for a Black Edition card. There are no adapters or Crossfire bridge, just a plethora of information on other products, a sign to hang over a door handle, and a little metal Black Edition badge.

The XFX HD7750 Black Edition Overclocked is built on a black PCB with the twin fan cooler taking centerstage from the front view. The ‘XFX R7750' branding is visible from a top down viewpoint as shown above.

The card takes power from a single 6 pin PCIE connector.

The output array comprises two DVI ports, a full sized HDMI connector and a full sized DisplayPort. it is Eyefinity capable, although it would be underpowered for gaming across three screens.

The XFX HD7750 Black Edition is Crossfire capable in a two way configuration.

The cooler is a straightforward design with the dual fans above, forcing cool air over the full width. XFX are using Elpida branded GDDR5 memory for this card.

As discussed earlier in the review, the new reference AMD HD7750 graphics card is clocked at 900mhz, so we were expecting this Black Edition to be clocked at 950mhz-1GHZ … after all it says ‘overclocked' on the front of the box.

Sadly, as the GPU screenshot highlights – it is clocked at identical speeds.

We therefore assumed that this card was based on the last generation of HD7750 clock speeds, but SCAN are taking pre-orders for this solution at £83.98 inc vat. Why would XFX be releasing a new HD7750 Black Edition ‘overclocked' at the same speeds as the latest AMD HD7750 reference card?

The card has 16 ROPs, 512 shaders and the 1GB of reference clocked (4.5Gbps effective) GDDR5 memory is connected via a 128 bit interface.

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