chronicle of Sapphire Vapor-X Hd 5750 1Gb Gddr5 Graphics Card

Introduction

The Radeon 5000 series of graphics cards were rather recently released by Amd/Ati and for the very first time in a join of years, Amd/Ati (hereafter referred to as only Amd) is back in the carrying out lead. Nvidea will release their next generation of graphics cards rather soon but no date is set and very exiguous data about it has leaked to the press.

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Just a join of weeks back Amd released the 5850 and the 5870 graphics cards which were very well received in reviews and by consumers. I did a divulge of an Asus 5850 card myself.

Just a join of weeks later Amd release the Hd 5970 which is a dual Gpu card with the code name "Hemlock", a very mighty and costly card. You can check out reviews at testseek.com on it. Here's the current lineup from Amd:

I already discussed the news with the Radeon 5000 series in my Asus Hd 5850 divulge so I'm not going to repeat everything again. Suffice to say, the new generation has some new great characteristics. First, the chips are made in the new 40nm technology which promises lower power consumption and less heat. Secondly, the Ati EyeFinity technology makes it possible to connect up to three monitors to each card which means a total of 6 monitors in CrossFireX. Other prominent characteristics are the Ati Stream (Gpu acceleration), Open Cl (Api for processing in parallel Gpu-Cpu) and Directx 11 support.

Engineering Specifications: Sapphire Vapor-X Hd5750 1Gb Ddr5

Ok, sufficient is enough; let's have a look at the specifications of the Sapphire Hd 5750 Vapor-X 1Gb Ddr5:

Sapphire 5750 Hd Steam 1Gb Ddr5

Gpu Juniper Pro (Radeon Hd 5870)

Technology 40nm

Stream processors 720

Texture units 36

Rops 16

Gpu Speed 710 Mhz (700 Mhz Hd 5750)

Memory 1Gb Gddr5 (1Gb/512Mb Gddr5 Hd 5750)

Memory speed 4640 Mhz (4600Mhz)

Bus width 128bits

Memory bandwidth 108Gb/s

Cooling system Steam, duplicate slot

Connectivity 2 Dvi-I

Hdmi

DisplayPort

Compatibility with CrossFireX Yes

External power connectors 1 6 x Pci-E of pin

Maximum power consumption 108W (load)/18W (rest)

Supported technologies DirectX 11, DirectX 10.1n, Ati Power Play, Ati Avivo, Dxva 1,0 & 2,0, Open Gl 3,2 (G.), Dolby True Hd and Dts-Hd Audio Masters, Ati Stream, Ati Eyefinity.

First Impressions: 5750 Sapphire Vapor-X Hd 1Gb Ddr5

On the box Sapphire emphasizes the Vapor-X technology and all the new Amd technologies discussed above.

The card is secured in a card board box and enclosed by the usual anti static plastic bag.

The included accessories are: a manual; a Cd with drivers and utilities; the application "ArcSoft SimHd"; a coupon to download the Dirt2 game (supports DirectX 11); 2 molex to 6 pin Pcie adapter cables; a Dvi-Vga adapter and a CrossFireX bridge.

In Detail: Sapphire Vapor-X Hd 5750 Vapor-X 1Gb Ddr5

The card itself literally looks impressive with its weighty cooling solution. I have had the chance to see models of the 5750 from quite a few manufacturers and the Sapphire card comes out on top.

The cooling explication occupies a duplicate slot which may be a disadvantage because this card must be rated as a medium range card and many users prefer singular slot cards in this segment. Amd/Ati sets the widespread rules from which the manufacturers can build their cards and they often leave rather small margins which I guess must be the fancy why I have yet to see a 5750 singular slot card.

The technology used by the cooling theory Vapor-X has its origins in the aerospace industry. The cooling liquid, (in this case water) becomes steam on a hot surface (the Gpu) and the resulting steam is condensed when it comes in touch with a colder surface which turns the steam into liquid again and returns to the hot surface again and so the process repeats itself. Sapphire claims that the Vapor-X theory is much more sufficient than the reference cooling system, up to 7 degrees.

In the right hands, less heat means less noise. And this is also another characteristic of the Vapor-X system.

In order to help the Vapor-X theory to cool the liquid that circulates in its interior, Sapphire has installed an 80mm fan which is perfectly integrated with the black plastic cover. One of the sides of the plastic cover holds the Sapphire logo which glows blue when the theory is running. Check out the image below to see what I'm talking about.

The "Black Diamond" condensers which caused some buzz in the commerce are included on this card. The aluminum polymer in these condensers is superior to the one used one in "normal" aluminum condensers. Agreeing to Sapphire, these condensers are 25% more power sufficient than normal condensers.

The card has an extra 6 pin Pcie power connector as you can see from the image below.

The 5750 actual has two CrossFireX connections although due to the inefficiency of the Catalyst drivers, it is not recommended to install more than two cards.

The memory units are illustrated on the Pcb of this card. They are four high capability Hynix Gddr5 chips.

There are four video exits on this card, two approved Dvi-I; a Hdmi and a DisplayPort. This should satisfy the needs of even the most demanding users. The card is only 185 mm long and thus fits in most cases.

Test System

These are the components in my test system:

Test equipment

Processor Intel Core 2 Quad 9300 @ 3.245 Ghz

Cpu cooler Zalman Cnps9900A Led

Motherboard Gigabyte Ep45C-Ds3R

Graphics card Sapphire Hd 5750 Vapor-X 1Gb Gddr5

Soundcard Integrated

Memory Ocz Reaper Hpc Ed Ddr2 1150 2×2Gb (5-6-6-18)

Hard disk Seagate Barracuda 7200,12 500 Gb

Power supply Corsair Hx850W

Case Cooler devotee 690 Pure

Operating theory and software

Operating system Windows 7 64bits

System Drivers Catalyst 9.11

DirectX August 2009

Benchmarking software 3D Mark 06

3D Mark Vantage

Furmark 1.7

Unigyne Heaven Benchmark

Games The Last Remnant

Tom Clancy´s Hawx

Street Fighter Iv

They reside Evil V

Weak May Cry 4

Stalker Clear Sky

Weapon 2

Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed military Cry 2

Crysis Warhead

Other software Cpu-Z 1.49

Gpu-Z 0.3.7

Occt 3.1

Here are screen shots of my test theory configuration:

Benchmarking Tests

Sadly I received this card a exiguous too late to be able to test it on my old test theory on which I have made many graphics card tests. This means I will have to annotation on the numbers without having any real references to results from old tests. I'll try to be as objective as possible.

It's not a secret that Amds cards often get surprisingly high scores in the FutureMark benchmarking programs (3D Mark 06 and 3D Mark Vantage). And this time was no irregularity as you can see from the graphs above.

The Unigine tests of the DirectX 10 and Direct 11X was challenging to me because of the results I got with the same tests on the Asus Hd5850 card a join of weeks back. One of the main marketing points of the DirectX 11 is that it is supposed to be much faster than its predecessor. With the Hd 5850 I got the opposite results and as you can see from the graphs above, the same goes for the 5750 card. Obviously Amd are having troubles here. Hopefully we will see improvements with the release of new Catalyst drivers.

Gaming I

The carrying out of the Radeon Hd 5750 is spectacular. It is able to verbalize a high Fps rate with all the games in this first series. It had no problems when I beefed up the resolution and turned on filters. The fact that it includes 1Gb of Gddr5 with a bandwidth of 108 Gb/s must be what finally keeps the smoothness in the games going even with filters on.

Gaming Ii

In the second battery of games which includes the most demanding games, the limitations of the Hd 5750 comes to light. Although it doesn't preclude us from enjoying the games altogether, it is clear that this is a mid range card. In favor of Hd 5750 it is indispensable to say that even the incredibly mighty Hd 5850 had some troubles with these games with all the settings at max. Considering that the Hd 5850 has duplicate the amount of stream processors compared to the Hd5750 it is fair to say that the Hd 5750 is a very potent card.

Overclocking, Cooling And Power Consumption

The release of the Hd 5750 brings power to the medium range segment. Up till now, I haven't said much about its overclocking abilities but reports from other reviews and forums have been positive. Therefore I was very eager to test a Hd 5750 card myself and see of the overclocking possible literally was as good as I had heard. I cannot deny that I got even happier when I learnt that I would be able to test a Hd 5750 with the Vapor-X technology.

Indeed, the overclocking capacity of this card is high. Check out the following screen shots which I obtained without modifying voltages but by only using Catalyst control Center.

After having tested innumerable combinations, I received a carport configuration at 860 Mhz for the Gpu and 1345 Mhz for the memories. This means an increase of the default numbers of 23% for the Gpu and 17% for the memories (percentages was calculated based on the values for the reference model with 700 Mhz for the Gpu and 1150 Mhz for the memories).

The Vapor-X cooling theory obviously does a splendid job. In the following graph you can see the temperatures when the card is in Idle and Full Load modes. The Idle temperatures were measured after the theory had been running for half an hour without any load. The Full Load numbers were taken after the theory had been in full load (using Furmark 1.7) for a half an hour. The room temperature was 17ËsC.

The Vapor-X technology clearly does a lot to keep the temperatures down. It was a long time ago I saw these low numbers at full load. I say it again; the Vapor-X does a great job.

The noise level is all the time hard to talk about since it's a very subjective thing. The fan can be set manually or automatic. While my overclocking the fan was set to regulating itself and it rotated at 50% of the max speed. I think that the noise it made on these levels ware perfectly Ok but when it goes above it becomes noticeable and somewhat annoying.

chronicle of Sapphire Vapor-X Hd 5750 1Gb Gddr5 Graphics Card

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Introduction

In late November of 2009, I picked up a Sapphire 5850 graphics card for my new system rig. I am highly glad I did. It features Direct X 11 technology along with Gddr5 and 1gb of on board memory. It installed painlessly and worked from the first boot without any problems. Installing the most recent drivers from amd.com is a must to get the most out of this card. It may be approximately a year old but it is without fail the best bang for the buck for a dx11 card, authentically for any style graphics card on the store currently.

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It's approximately 9.5" in distance and can fit in approximately any Mid Tower or Full Tower computer case. It takes up two lanes in the rear of the case and if you determine to put it in the top Pci-E 2.0 slot it will take up the slot right below it which is normally Pci.

This card was released in 2009 as the first Dx 11 card for the store along with its big brother the 5870. Ati got the ball rolling with this card for the next generation with Dx11 to beat Nvidia to the punch to filter the store in Ati's favor.

Test System

The rig in which this card was tested is as follows:

Processor: I7 920 Overclocked to 3.0ghz Ram: Corsair Xms3 Ddr 1600 (3 x 2 gb) Graphics: Sapphire Ati 5850 1Gb Dx11 Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 750Gb Secondary Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 1Tb

These are the primary opponents that are connected to the carrying out of this high end graphics card.

Performance

Games

I tested this card with many of the most beloved games which includes: Crysis, Counter attack Source, Mafia 2, Resident Evil 5. This card handled them all great with no stutter or lag in game play.

Crysis (1600 x 900, Max Settings with no Vertical Sync) Min Fps = 23, Max Fps = 98, Avg Fps = 65 Counter attack Source (1600 x 900, Max Settings with no Vertical Sync) Min Fps = 210, Max Fps = 300, Avg Fps = 254 Mafia 2 (1600 x 900, Max Settings with no Vertical Sync) Min Fps = 56, Max Fps = 120, Avg Fps = 85 Resident Evil 5 (1600 x 900, Max Settings with no Vertical Sync) Min Fps = 89, Max Fps = 187, Avg Fps = 136

This card performed beyond my expectations at all these games, the low rate during crysis is due to the fact that the game is overkill and doesn't need to be played on max setting to be enjoyed. However, it is nice to know that it is able to be played at max settings if needed.

Videos

The majority of people believe that any graphics card will be able to give you the best hd contact from online video and blue ray. This however is not the case. It's true that any of the nxt generation cards can play Hd content, but the Ati Sapphire 5850 plays it flawlessly with no lag or stutter. It can stream 1080P article from blue ray or online article no qoute at all and this is a big plus in having this card.

Cooling

I am not going to lie, the Ati 5850 line have some pretty load fans installed. The good news is that you can manually set the fan speed from the Ati catalyst panel, which comes in handy. If you are going to do intense gaming then the fan should be set at 70% or higher. While for normal usage, 40% will do the job. This card needs the large fan to keep the heat down on the card because the card can get hot at times under extreme usage, such as in games or watching 1080P video.

When finding at the temperatures, this card reaches at 70% fan level while playing a game the highest it has gotten to is 55 degrees Celsius. When comparing this climatic characteristic to other cards that are similar from Nvidia, they reach typically 80 degrees Celsius on the same fan setting.

Overall this card has a large fan to dissipate the heat the best it can and the rest depends on the case and all the ventilation that it has along with extra fans. It has one of the best cooling systems and keeps the climatic characteristic down to an standard state.

Over Clocking

To growth the output of this card you can use the Ati catalyst, which is part of your software that is automatically installed with the most recent driver. It has a standard core clock of 725mhz and an sufficient memory clock of 1000mhz. You can boost these to say 775mhz and 1100mhz memory clock and in doing so, you should also growth the fan setting also because it will put out more heat since you are working the card more.

By expanding the core clock and memory clock you growth the carrying out in your games. In counter attack source my median fps went up approximately 15fps and in Crysis it went up approximately 5 fps. It may not seem like much but in games that wish a lot, like Crysis, it is very beneficial.

You have to remember that holding your card over clocked and never changing it back to normal will cause it to use more electricity and stay hot. In the long run, I would recommend when your done gaming, changing it back to stock setting to get more life out of the card.

Conclusion

This is without fail a card that should be on top of your list. It's affordable, its high performing and it will fit in approximately any case without a problem. The game play capability by this card is astonishing, along with the next generation Dx11 support. As you saw it plays all the most recent and many games ready smoothly at max settings in Hd quality. It plays Full 1080P Hd article flawlessly from both blue ray and online content. It also has a state of the art air cooling system that won't break the bank and keeps the card cool in all situation and predicaments that you may put it through.

I would give this card a solid A for reliability, quality, and performance.

It can be bought at amazon.com for approximately 0 and is without fail a must have for 2010!!

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