VTX3D HD7770 1GHZ Edition Crossfire Review

A blast from the past … ATI's mascot Ruby adorns the box. We aren't so sure AMD would be overjoyed to see this somewhat ‘out of date' mascot being used, but we don't mind. We still miss the old ATI days.

Not much of a bundle, an installation guide, and two video converter cables.

VTX3D are using the reference AMD cooler, with their own stickers.

VTX3D are using a red PCB, unlike the reference AMD HD7770 we have, which is built around a black PCB.

The card is Crossfire capable, in a two 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 HD7770 requires a single 6 pin power connector for stable operation.

The VTX3D HD7770 has a DVI port, HDMI port, and two mini DisplayPort connectors. It is Eyefinity capable.

Removing the cooler only takes a couple of seconds. The cooler may appear to be completely plastic, but the central area is formed around a metal heatsink section, with fan positioned above.

This HD7770 uses 1GB of Hynix GDDR5 H5GQ2H24MFR memory.

Above: Single card and Crossfire.

Above, VTX3D haven't filled in the subvendor information via their bios, leaving an identity of (2319). The specifications we detailed on the first page, but here they are again. This is a 28nm ‘Cape Verde' GPU core with 16 ROPs, 640 Unified shaders and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory via a 128 bit memory interface. The core on this card is running at reference 1GHz speeds, and the memory at 1,125mhz (4.5 Gbps effective).

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