Closer Look
Here we have some un-boxing photos of the Sapphire Vapor-X AMD Radeon 6770. Inside we have an instruction manual, driver disc, DVI to VGA adaptor for those stuck in the 90s, a 6-pin to 4-pin power adapter in case you don’t have the necessary 4-pin connector on your power supply, and the card itself. This is a dual slot card, so make sure you have some available slots. Taking up the second slot we have a a large heatsink full of heatpipes. These should allow for ample cooling and provide for a decent overclock. On the I/O side we have two dual-link DVI ports, 1 DisplayPort, and 1 HDMI 1.4a port for a 3D monitor.
Specifications
| Specification | |
| Output | 2 x Dual-Link DVI 1 x HDMI 1.4a 1 x DisplayPort |
| GPU | 860 MHz Core Clock 40 nm Chip 800 x Stream Processors |
| Memory | 1024 MB Size 128 -bit GDDR5 4800 MHz Effective |
| Software | Driver CD 1 x Dirt®3 Coupon |
| Accessory | DVI to VGA Adapter 6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable |
Testing
Testing was done on the following machine:
Test Rig
| Motherboard | Gigabyte 890gpa-ud3h |
| CPU: | AMD Phenom II x6 1075T 3.0GHz |
| Heatsink | AeroFlow FX 120 |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W |
| RAM | 4GB OCZ Platinum 1600 |
| Case | Antec Six Hundred v2 |
| GPU | Sapphire Vapor-X HD AMD Radeon 6770 1GB |
| Hard drive | 1TB Western Digital Black |
I ran a combination of synthetic benchmarks and actual games for testing. I also ran Luxmark to test the OpenCL capabilities of this card. After testing I overclocked and ran a few of the same tests for comparison.
