Thursday, June 7th 2012
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Sapphire Squeezes Radeon HD 7750 Down to Single-Slot Low-Profile
What you might pass away for a bare entry-level graphics card at first glance, could end up being Sapphire's new Radeon HD 7750 single-slot low-profile graphics card. The design is a beneficiary of 28 nm "Cape Verde" silicon, which is found to have good-enough temperatures on its reference-design board. The card is ideal for mini-ITX systems. It relies entirely on the PCI-Express slot for power, and uses a 2+1+1 phase VRM, which utilizes high-grade driver-MOSFETs on its GPU phases.
The card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 800 MHz core, with 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz effective) memory. It packs 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit wide memory interface. The GPU packs 512 Graphics CoreNext stream processors. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, mini-DisplayPort, and mini-HDMI. Adapters converting them to standard-size connectors, and a low-profile bracket will come included.
The card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 800 MHz core, with 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz effective) memory. It packs 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit wide memory interface. The GPU packs 512 Graphics CoreNext stream processors. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, mini-DisplayPort, and mini-HDMI. Adapters converting them to standard-size connectors, and a low-profile bracket will come included.
30 Comments on Sapphire Squeezes Radeon HD 7750 Down to Single-Slot Low-Profile
Good Job Sapphire!
Best,
LC
(are these CF capable, without the usual connector?)
Hey is there a fan on that (dark) picture, if all passive it would be amazing!
C-F IDk... But you probably won't need a bridge to do it might all be through PCI-E. Though for Hybrid'n a Trinty that could be interesting, but I don't recall if they could make the GCN is to play with with VLIW4 Northern Islands architecture.
But, Good work Sapphire
I'll take two for my HP microserver(s) :toast::toast::toast:
Isn't the A10 basically a quarter of a 6970? Probably puts it around 6500/7500 or 6600/7600 class GPU, not a 7700.
My understanding is that dual graphics works best when the GPUs are relatively balanced.
On another note I would still prefer MSI low profile gt440 over this any day. :) It's personal preference.
I really feel they need innovate more with low-profile cards. It's systems like Colrful Barebone that pave the way. I would like to see a dual-slot cooling solutions, that's not just an aluminum piece with fins. It's just not good enough and 80 degrees is faaar from acceptable in my book. Make a Scythe Sestsugen 1 for LP please :)
I just consider in AMD’s eyes' wanting such cards to witter. AMD will continue VLIW4 architecture cards for low-end upgrades and Trinity Hybrid C-F, but that’s probably with a re-name of 6570/6670 that remain legacy parts.
While mobo issue comes into play, new M-ATX boards for AMD CPU’s (only) weren’t released with 9 Series chipset, so if wanting M-ATX you work an 880G/760G. If you want newer features 6Gb/USB 3.0 and M-ATX you go FM mobo’s (or Intel). I just don’t see such single-slot low-profile card at this level of TDP really enjoying sales, except to add to Intel. I’d see AMD wanting to shut-out Intel, keep such builds to HD Graphics 3000/4000 or legacy AMD card. While Nvidia soldiers on; although they need to do better than a GT540 next time, because that’s just slightly enhanced over Intel HD Graphics 4000, while adding more power.
It's a therory...
just think of the power of a miniITX PC now :O
There is something to be said about low profile though. Sometimes you just need a small computer with features rather than a fast one that is the size of a boat and weights like one too.
You... you... boatist!