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Sapphire gives AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5770 the Vapor-X treatment

by Parm Mann on 7 December 2009, 14:15

Tags: Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X 1GB, Sapphire

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Sapphire has today announced the HD 5770 Vapor-X, a custom take on AMD's mid-range ATI Radeon HD 5770.

The card, pictured above, arrives shortly after the introduction of the HD 5750 Vapor-X and promises "the same value for money performance as the standard model, whilst working at lower operating temperatures and significantly more quietly."

Sapphire ships the 40nm card with a GPU clocked at 860MHz - a minor 10MHz overclock - and 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating at an effective 4,800MHz.

What's more likely to interest consumers, however, is Sapphire's assurance that "the card will run quieter than the standard model", provides additional headroom for overclocking, and "runs 9°C cooler than the reference design". That's according to Sapphire's internal testing, at least.

If the price is right, this could easily become the HD 5770 of choice.



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What happened to the passive Powercolor one? I still don't see that available in the UK!

I'm sure this is a nice card, and the cooler likely improves on the reference one, but notice to manufacturers: 5750s with passive coolers are JUST as desirable, and I wanted to buy one MONTHS ago!
Still doesn't look like it directly vents all that hot used air out the back of the case….
“the same value for money performance as the standard model, whilst working at lower operating temperatures and significantly more quietly.”

It will cost the same as the standard cards then ?
Bah, where's the 5850 Vapor-X announcement?
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Still doesn't look like it directly vents all that hot used air out the back of the case….

This is my quandry. Focus the air out the back of the case, not something that just blows it around.