Sapphire's low-profile, single-slot Radeon HD 7750 graphics card, which we've been tracking since Computex 2012 (June), is finally launched. The card uses an active fan-heatsink to cool the 1.5 billion transistor GPU, and is designed for HTPCs and SFF PCs in general.
Sapphire's low-profile single-slot HD 7750 graphics card uses a 2+1 phase VRM design, consisting of compact chokes, driver-MOSFETs, and tantalum capacitors. The card draws power from the PCI-Express slot. The AMD Radeon HD 7750 graphics processor is clocked at 800 MHz, and is wired to 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, clocked at 1,125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective).
The cooling solution deployed by Sapphire is a monolithic aluminum heatsink, which is ventilated by a 40 mm fan. The heatsink appears to make contact only with the GPU. The card has an all-digital display output loadout, including dual-link DVI, mini-DisplayPort, and micro-HDMI. Adapters are included in the package, for micro-to-standard HDMI, mini-to-standard DisplayPort, and DVI to D-Sub. The card comes with a low-profile bracket pre-fitted, and full-height bracket is included in the package (on most low-profile graphics card bundles, it's the other way round).
Based on the 28 nm "Cape Verde" silicon, the Radeon HD 7750 graphics processor from AMD is based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture, packs 512 stream processors, a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, and support for the latest graphics APIs, including DirectX 11.1. Sapphire did not release pricing of its low-profile single-slot HD 7750 graphics card.
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