Review of Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
INTRODUCTION
The Radeon 5000 assortment of graphics enjoying playing cards have been considerably currently launched by AMD/ATI and for the very first time in just a few years, AMD/ATI (hereafter referred to as solely AMD) is once more throughout the effectivity lead. NVIDEA will launch their subsequent expertise of graphics enjoying playing cards considerably shortly nonetheless no date is prepared and little or no particulars about it has leaked to the press.
Merely just a few weeks once more AMD launched the 5850 and the 5870 graphics enjoying playing cards which have been very successfully obtained in opinions and by customers. I did a consider of an Asus 5850 card myself.
Merely just a few weeks later AMD launch the HD 5970 which is a twin GPU card with the code title “Hemlock”, a extremely extremely efficient and dear card. Chances are you’ll check out opinions at testseek.com on it. That is the current lineup from AMD:
I already talked about the data with the Radeon 5000 assortment in my Asus HD 5850 consider so I’m not going to repeat each half as soon as extra. Suffice to say, the model new expertise has some new good traits. First, the chips are made throughout the new 40nm experience which ensures lower vitality consumption and fewer heat. Secondly, the ATI EyeFinity experience makes it doable to connect as a lot as three screens to each card which suggests a whole of 6 screens in CrossFireX. Totally different important traits are the ATI Stream (GPU acceleration), Open CL (API for processing in parallel GPU-CPU) and Directx 11 assist.
ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS: SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X HD5750 1GB DDR5
OK, enough is enough; let’s have a look on the specs of the Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X 1GB DDR5:
Sapphire 5750 HD Steam 1GB DDR5
GPU Juniper PRO (Radeon HD 5870)
Know-how 40nm
Stream processors 720
Texture objects 36
ROPs 16
GPU Tempo 710 Mhz (700 Mhz HD 5750)
Memory 1GB GDDR5 (1GB/512MB GDDR5 HD 5750)
Memory velocity 4640 Mhz (4600Mhz)
Bus width 128bits
Memory bandwidth 108GB/s
Cooling system Steam, double slot
Connectivity 2 DVI-I
HDMI
DisplayPort
Compatibility with CrossFireX Certain
Exterior vitality connectors 1 6 x PCI-E of pin
Most vitality consumption 108W (load)/18W (leisure)
Supported utilized sciences DirectX 11, DirectX 10.1n, ATI Vitality 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 sphere Sapphire emphasizes the Vapor-X experience and all of the model new AMD utilized sciences talked about above.
The cardboard is secured in a card board discipline and enclosed by the identical outdated anti static plastic bag.
The included gear are: a information; a CD with drivers and utilities; the making use of “ArcSoft SimHD”; a coupon to acquire the Dirt2 sport (helps 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 cardboard itself truly seems to be like spectacular with its large cooling decision. I’ve had the likelihood to see fashions of the 5750 from pretty a few producers and the Sapphire card comes out on excessive.
The cooling decision occupies a double slot which generally is a disadvantage because of this card ought to be rated as a medium range card and loads of prospects favor single slot enjoying playing cards on this part. AMD/ATI models the final pointers from which the producers can assemble their enjoying playing cards they normally sometimes go away considerably small margins which I suppose ought to be the reason why I’ve however to see a 5750 single slot card.
The experience utilized by the cooling system Vapor-X has its origins throughout the aerospace enterprise. The cooling liquid, (on this case water) turns into steam on a scorching ground (the GPU) and the following steam is condensed when it’s accessible involved with a colder ground which turns the steam into liquid as soon as extra and returns to the latest ground as soon as extra and so the tactic repeats itself. Sapphire claims that the Vapor-X system is far more environment friendly than the reference cooling system, as a lot as 7 ranges.
Within the appropriate palms, a lot much less heat means a lot much less noise. And that’s moreover one different attribute of the Vapor-X system.
With the intention to help the Vapor-X system to relax the liquid that circulates in its inside, Sapphire has put in an 80mm fan which is totally built-in with the black plastic cowl. One in all many sides of the plastic cowl holds the Sapphire model which glows blue when the system is working. Attempt the image beneath to see what I’m talking about.
The “Black Diamond” condensers which induced some buzz throughout the enterprise are included on this card. The aluminum polymer in these condensers is superior to the one used one in “common” aluminum condensers. In response to Sapphire, these condensers are 25% further vitality surroundings pleasant than common condensers.
The cardboard has a further 6 pin PCIe vitality connector as you probably can see from the image beneath.
The 5750 exact has two CrossFireX connections although because of inefficiency of the Catalyst drivers, it is not likely useful to place in better than two enjoying playing cards.
The memory objects are seen on the PCB of this card. They’re 4 high quality Hynix GDDR5 chips.
There are 4 video exits on this card, two customary DVI-I; a HDMI and a DisplayPort. This might fulfill the desires of even in all probability probably the most demanding prospects. The cardboard is barely 185 mm prolonged and thus matches most frequently.
TEST SYSTEM
These are the weather in my verify system:
Examine gear
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 Constructed-in
Memory OCZ Reaper HPC Ed DDR2 1150 2&events;2GB (5-6-6-18)
Onerous disk Seagate Barracuda 7200,12 500 GB
Vitality present Corsair HX850W
Case Cooler Grasp 690 PURE
Working system and software program program
Working system Dwelling home windows 7 64bits
System Drivers Catalyst 9.11
DirectX August 2009
Benchmarking software program program 3D Mark 06
3D Mark Vantage
Furmark 1.7
Unigyne Heaven Benchmark
Video video games The Remaining Remnant
Tom Clancy´s Hawx
Avenue Fighter IV
They reside Evil V
Weak Would possibly Cry 4
Stalker Clear Sky
WEAPON 2
Officers’ Membership of Revolutionary Armed Forces Cry 2
Crysis Warhead
Totally different software program program CPU-Z 1.49
GPU-Z 0.3.7
OCCT 3.1
Listed below are show display screen pictures of my verify system configuration:
BENCHMARKING TESTS
Sadly I obtained this card a little bit of too late to have the power to verify it on my earlier verify system on which I’ve made many graphics card assessments. This suggests I ought to contact upon the numbers with out having any precise references to outcomes from earlier assessments. I’ll try and be as objective as doable.
It is not a secret that AMDs enjoying playing cards sometimes get surprisingly extreme scores throughout the FutureMark benchmarking packages (3D Mark 06 and 3D Mark Vantage). And this time was no exception as you probably can see from the graphs above.
The Unigine assessments of the DirectX 10 and Direct 11X was attention-grabbing to me as a result of outcomes I obtained with the equivalent assessments on the Asus HD5850 card just a few weeks once more. One in all many principal promoting components of the DirectX 11 is that it is alleged to be lots faster than its predecessor. With the HD 5850 I obtained the choice outcomes and as you probably can see from the graphs above, the equivalent goes for the 5750 card. Clearly AMD are having troubles proper right here. Hopefully we’ll see enhancements with the discharge of latest Catalyst drivers.
GAMING I
The effectivity of the Radeon HD 5750 is spectacular. It is able to maintain a extreme FPS cost with all the video video games on this primary assortment. It had no points after I beefed up the choice and turned on filters. The reality that it accommodates 1GB of GDDR5 with a bandwidth of 108 GB/s ought to be what ultimately retains the smoothness throughout the video video games going even with filters on.
GAMING II
Throughout the second battery of video video games which includes in all probability probably the most demanding video video games, the constraints of the HD 5750 includes delicate. Although it doesn’t cease us from having enjoyable with the video video games altogether, it is clear that it’s a mid range card. In favor of HD 5750 it is important to say that even the extraordinarily extremely efficient HD 5850 had some troubles with these video video games with all the settings at max. Considering that the HD 5850 has double the amount of stream processors compared with the HD5750 it is trustworthy to say that the HD 5750 is a extremely potent card.
OVERCLOCKING, COOLING AND POWER CONSUMPTION
The discharge of the HD 5750 brings vitality to the medium range part. Up till now, I’ve by no means talked about lots about its overclocking abilities nonetheless opinions from completely different opinions and boards have been constructive. As a result of this reality I was very eager to verify a HD 5750 card myself and see of the overclocking potential truly was almost nearly as good as I had heard. I cannot deny that I obtained even happier after I learnt that I may be able to verify a HD 5750 with the Vapor-X experience.
Definitely, the overclocking functionality of this card is extreme. Attempt the following show display screen pictures which I obtained with out modifying voltages nonetheless by solely using Catalyst Administration Center.
After having examined innumerable combos, I obtained a gradual configuration at 860 Mhz for the GPU and 1345 MHz for the reminiscences. This suggests an increase of the default numbers of 23% for the GPU and 17% for the reminiscences (percentages was calculated based totally on the values for the reference model with 700 MHz for the GPU and 1150 MHz for the reminiscences).
The Vapor-X cooling system clearly does a unimaginable job. Throughout the following graph you probably can see the temperatures when the cardboard is in IDLE and FULL LOAD modes. The IDLE temperatures have been measured after the system had been working for half an hour with none load. The FULL LOAD numbers have been taken after the system had been in full load (using Furmark 1.7) for a half an hour. The room temperature was 17ËsC.
The Vapor-X experience clearly does fairly a bit to take care of the temperatures down. It was a really very long time previously I observed these low numbers at full load. I say it as soon as extra; the Vapor-X does a perfect job.
The noise diploma is always laborious to discuss since it’s a very subjective issue. The fan will likely be set manually or automated. All through my overclocking the fan was set to regulating itself and it rotated at 50% of the max velocity. I imagine that the noise it made on these ranges ware fully OK nonetheless when it goes above it turns into noticeable and significantly annoying.
