Sapphire HD7730 2GB GDDR3 and 1GB GDDR5 Review

After a delayed release from late 2012 to March 2013, the game received much anticipation and hype. Tomb Raider received much acclaim from critics, who praised the graphics, the gameplay and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Lara, with many critics agreeing that the game is a solid and much needed reboot of the franchise.

Much criticism went to the addition of the multiplayer which many felt was unnecessary.

Tomb Raider went on to sell one million copies in forty-eight hours of its release, and has sold 3.4 million copies worldwide so far.

We selected the ULTRA profile and tested all the cards at 1280×720, as shown above.

Tomb Raider is a demanding game at the Ultra settings and some of the hardware fails to produce playable frame rates at these settings. The HD7730 cards struggle to cope at times, although the GDDR5 version of the hardware performs at a noticeably higher level and is less juddery at these settings. Still a little more reduction of image quality settings would be beneficial.

The Crossfire configuration suffered from significant frame rate drop at times.

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