AMD HD7770 & HD7750 Roundup: Sapphire, XFX and HIS

The Sapphire HD7750 Low Profile ships in a box featuring a busty 3D rendered woman adorned in a futuristic army outfit. A sticker bottom right highlights the ‘low profile' design compatible with Mini ITX chassis.

The bundle is actually really good for a budget card such as this. It features a full length bracket for a standard sized chassis, as well as several video converter cables and a software disc. Sapphire have also included a branded sticker in the software disc package.

The tiny card is built on a blue PCB with a small single fan cooler placed off center over the core.

This low profile card is designed specifically for MINI ITX chassis, when space is at a premium. It doesn't require any power connectors either which may prove invaluable in specific environments.

There is no Crossfire connector on this card.

The Sapphire HD7750 low profile has three digital connectors, DVI, mini DisplayPort and Mini HDMI. They do supply adapters in the box for both mini ports, which is extremely useful.

No fancy cooler with this card, just a simple metal block which makes contact with the GPU core underneath. There is 1GB of high grade Hynix memory onboard.

Sapphire are using a tiny little fan for this cooler which we hope doesn't generate too much noise under load. We will analyse this later in the review.

The Sapphire HD7750 low profile card is clocked at 800mhz, 100mhz less than the ‘new' AMD HD7750 reference board. Some compromises have to be met for this specific form factor design. 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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