AMD Radeon HD 7770 & 7750 Launch Review - PAGE 1

AMD's Southern Island graphics cards have been aggressively hitting the market and while there have been some driver issues, the overall reception for the new cards has been mostly positive. That's because ultimately both the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 push more pixels than their HD 6000 series counterparts while also offering better performance-per-watt and overclocking headroom as well. Today Neoseeker will be examining the latest iteration of the Southern Islands family; the Radeon HD 7770 and HD 7750.

Like their older siblings, both of these new graphics cards are based on AMD’s Graphics Core Next architecture, albeit slimmed down in comparison to Tahiti. This of course reduces the overall performance, but with the trimmer architecture, AMD is able to retail the 7770 series at more cost effective MSRP. This places it in a market sweet spot previously dominated by the HD 6770 and HD 6750.

The retail pricing for the HD 7770 and HD 7750 sit at $159 and $109 USD, respectively. At this price they sit just a bit higher than the Juniper architecture, but with the GCN design they should offer better gaming performance, more efficient parallel computing, Eyefinity 2.0 support, PowerTune technology, ZeroCore Power and Gen 3 PCIe support.

Without further ado, let’s jump right into the hardware of the new Cape Verde graphics cards and see if they really are the prescription needed to enhance, well…performance. For more info on your prescription of Verdetrol check out their website to see if it is right for you.