Sapphire HD7730 2GB GDDR3 and 1GB GDDR5 Review

The box art features one of Sapphire's 3D rendered army women complete with oversized bosom and armed to the teeth, ready for some action.

Inside, the card is bundled inside a cardboard box, protected in an anti static bag. The accessories rest alongside the HD7730.

The tiny card is built on a blue PCB with a black cooler and blue fan installed on top. The rear of the card has 1GB of the GDDR3 memory visible. Sapphire can keep the price of this card almost identical to the GDDR5 version, which only features 1GB of memory. Why? GDDR3 is cheaper to produce.

The dual slot card has a single VGA, HDMI and DVI port as shown above.

The other 1GB of GDDR3 is visible once we get the cooler off. The cooler is not a heavy duty design, as the HD7730 isn't a hot running design.

Even though the extra 1GB of GDDR3 memory is a dead giveaway, there is a sticker on the rear of the PCB which highlights the model, shown above.

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