Sapphire HD7770 Vapor X Overclock Edition Review

As we would expect, Sapphire don't feature the card on the front of the box, but instead have a very tasty 3D rendered lady in the center. She is either hunting polar bears or is out to kick some ass, James Bond style.

The bundle includes a power adapter, a video adapter and an HDMI cable.

The last overclocked Sapphire HD7770 we reviewed featured a large, single, centrally placed fan. The Vapor X Edition has two slightly smaller fans placed across the full length of the aqua blue PCB.

The card demands a single 6 pin PCI e power connector for operation. It is Crossfire capable in a 2 way configuration only. If you want three way or four way Crossfire you need to aim higher up AMD’s product range. A little disappointing as three or four of these cards might make for an interesting, lower cost Crossfire configuration.

The Sapphire HD7770 Vapor X Overclock Edition features dual DVI ports, an HDMI port and a DisplayPort. It is Eyefinity capable.

The cooler is a substantial design, based around two thick copper heatpipes, which connect to a copper core. The more observant among you will notice that this card doesn't use Hynix memory. Sapphire are using Elpida GDDR5 – marked W2032BBBG.

An overview of the Sapphire HD7770 Vapor X Overclock Edition in GPUz. This 28nm Cape Verde core runs 100mhz faster than the reference card @ 1,100mhz. The card features 16 ROPS, 640 Unified shaders and 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1300mhz via a 128 bit interface.

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