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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.
Wow, that Sapphire card is really good. I had imagined I would get a prodigy case later this year and get a small video card for it ,just for video acceleration and image quality.
This looks the card to get.
I admit, you got me there.
i was expecting the HIS or XFX to win this, but you focused on EXACTLY the right points. power consumption, noise, size, lack of power connector etc.
Great job from sapphire, exactly what i need for my system, im using onboard and it sucks so badly for HD video. people dont understand the IQ differences between Intel on a CPU and a dedicated AMD card like this. its night and day. especially for colours and noise reduction options in the panel.
A HD7770 or GTX460 is more than enough, even today, for 1080p gaming. people get a false idea that a 7970 or 690 is ‘needed’. those are three screen solutions now. save the money, pick up one of these cards, classic little cost effective beasts.
Not sure im a big fan of these cards, but the sapphire model makes sense. im still wanting the 660, just trying to make sure I dont cripple myself for next month as I need to eat too.
Some good overclocks, but I agree, why did they reduce the shaders from 800? typical fing stupid AMD at times. they could be doing so much better if they had people making decisions who understood the gamers.
I like the HIS card best im afraid, if they hit £99.99 count me in for my second system.
These aren’t good enough for 1080p gaming, I want 60 fps, sorry. but good pricing now for people without the cash for a £200 card,. thats the sweet spot.
Am I missing something?
They are releasing ‘new’ 7750’s at 900mhz+? havent they been out for months already? you guys reviewed many.
bonkers AMD move. just drop the price, dont re-release them with bios updates. seems XFX were left out of the loop. Nice black reference edition :p
I bought a Sapphire flex 6770 flex from the last generation and its still good. I dont use AA and I have my system into a 37 inch tv. runs well.
Dont get sucked into the hype of needing 120fps for gaming, its bollocks.