Sapphire HD 5870 and HD 5750 Vapor-X Review

ccokeman - November 3, 2009
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Specifications:

Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X

SKU	21161-03
AISC	Radeon HD 5870
Bus Interface	PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.0)
Memory	1024MB / 256-bit GDDR5
Clock Speed	870MHz Eclk / Effective 5000 MHz Mclk
Cooling System	Dual slot Fan with auto fan control
Bracket	Full Height
Display Support	Dual DL-DVI-I Display Port HDMI VGA(Via adaptor)
HDCP	Yes
Crossfire Support	Native Hardware Crossfire
External Power	PCIe Graphic External 2 x 6 pin
Board Power	188Watt(Maximum) 27Watt(Idle)
Accessories	Crossfire Interconnect Cable x 1 DVI to VGA Adaptor x 1 6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable x 2
Game Bundle in 21161-03	Battle Stations Pacific Dirt2 Coupon

Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X

SKU	11164-04
AISC	Radeon HD 5750
Bus Interface	PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.0)
Memory	1024MB / 128-bit GDDR5
Clock Speed	710MHz Eclk / Effective 4640 MHz Mclk
Cooling System	Dual slot Fan with auto fan control
Bracket	Full Height
Display Support	Dual DL-DVI-I Display Port HDMI VGA(Via adaptor)
HDCP	Yes
Crossfire Support	Native Hardware Crossfire
External Power	PCIe Graphic External 1 x 6 pin

Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X

Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays.
ATI Stream technology
Microsoft Windows 7 Support
40nm Process Technology
2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
Advanced 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
HDMI 1.3 support with Deep Color and 7.1 High Bit Rate Audio
On chip HDCP Support
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance. (Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard)
ATI Avivo HD Support: ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video. Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) DVD Upscaling, Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM Support

Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X

Microsoft DirectX 11 Support: Shader Model 5.0 Support, DirectCompute 11, Programmable hardware tessellation unit, Accelerated multi-threading, HDR texture compression, Order-independent transparency
1.04 billion 40nm transistors
720 Stream Processing Units
OpenGL 3.2 support
ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays.
ATI Stream technology
Open CL 1.0 Compliant
DirectCompute 11:Accelerated video encoding, transcoding and upscaling
Microsoft Windows 7 Support
2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
Advanced 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface
HDMI 1.3 support with Deep Color and 7.1 High Bit rate Audio
On chip HDCP Support
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance. (Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard)
ATI Avivo HD Support: ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video, Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT), DVD Upscaling, Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support, Support for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2, Dual Stream 1080p playback support, DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
AC-3, AAC3, Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio TM Support
3D stereoscopic display/glasses support****