KitGuru KitGuru.net – Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards
Sapphire enjoy their 3D rendered ladies and we aren't complaining. While we do like their artwork, a quality high resolution image of the video card itself would help showcase the lovely dual fan cooler within a retail store environment (yes, there still are a few of them open!).
The Sapphire HD7790 OC bundle is good. The company include power and video converters, a quality HDMI cable, literature and software discs.
The Sapphire HD7790 OC is an attractively designed discrete solution, built around a black PCB with dual fan cooler. The shroud may be plastic, but it looks great. It is a dual slot card and most of the hot air should be forced out the back of the chassis.
The HD7790 OC is Crossfire capable if you want to buy another card. Like all of these boards, it will only work in a dual card configuration. It requires a single 6 pin power connector.
The card has dual DVI connectors, an HDMI connector and a DisplayPort connector.
The Sapphire cooler is a modest dual heatpipe model, although they are thick pipes. They run into two separate racks of aluminum fins on either side of the core.
An overview of the Sapphire HD7790 OC Edition in GPUz. The Bonaire core is built on the 28nm manufacturing process. The core is running overclocked, at 1,075mhz and the memory is running at 1,600mhz (6.4Gbps effective). The 1GB of GDDR5 memory is running via a 128 bit interface. There are 896 unifed shaders on this card, which is a marked improvement over the HD7770. There are 16 ROPS and 56 TMU's onboard.
Fantastic reading thanks GTX660ti all the way for me !
I have wanted the HD7950 now for quite a while, but cant afford it. ive decided to wait until the next gen, later this year. good article, shows the good GTX660ti performance well.
Im very happy with my HD7870, will do me for some time, and when it doesn’t ill pick one up cheap to CF them,
Now this will totally affect my decision on buying a vga
GTX670 is great, but GTX660 ti is the bargain right now. I like that Sapphire card though, im sick of fan noise 🙁
Good article, very helpful as im thinking of buying one for my new system soon.
Greg, you might want to look at the Asus Direct CUII version of the GTX660Ti – I got one recently to replace a Gainward GTX260GS and the reduction in fan noise is astonishing.
I agree with Andrew. Even though the Gainward GFX cards are very durable, but if you want high quality Nvidia cards that are also silent you should look at the ASUS cards with the Direct CUII cooling solution. It’s really no comparison.
Kitguru said: “Today’s article won’t be featuring the AMD HD7970, HD7990 or Nvidia GTX680 or GTX 690/Titan. Not because we don’t like them, but because very few people can afford to buy them.”
This seems very disingenuous. There’s hardly any difference between the avg. 670 and 7970 prices. Does put nVidia at the top of the charts with the O/C’d 670 though. :
Well its not meant to be disingenuous. the GTX680 is the flagship to battle against the HD7970. If we included the HD7970 then we would need to include the GTX680, sometimes seen for £350.
The point was to try and get a variety of cards and not focus on the flagship single GPU cards.
Bear in mind the GTX670 didn’t get a top award in this test, due to the pricing. The Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X did due to cost, cooling, noise etc.