Review: Mid-range machinations: AMD's Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 GPUs - Graphics - HEXUS.net

Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 1,024MB

Here's the smaller, cheaper Radeon HD 5750 1,024MB that is due to etail at £109.

Shorter than the HD 5770 by around 35mm, the 7in card will, clearly, be a better fit in smaller chassis. There should be no problems in securing it to the chassis; it weighs 365g.

The cooler is slightly different to the reference's, and this is the one we'll see on most partner cards.

Still double-height, which may annoy folks looking for a powerful, flexible HTPC graphics card, it's a little louder than the HD 5770's larger cooler when idling but quieter under load.

As alluded to earlier, the original batch of 5-series cards will all ship with a 1,024MB GDDR5 frame buffer. Here the memory runs at 4.6Gbps.

You've seen this before, right?

Our first thoughts centre around the value of the card, pitched at £109. The same outlay will secure a Radeon HD 4870 512MB GPU.