Welcome to Rage3D's look at the Sapphire HD5750 Vapor-X graphics card! The bottom end of the new Evergreen line-up is filled by the Juniper core based cards, the HD5770 and HD5750. Available in 512MB and 1GB configurations and starting at $109USD, the HD5750 has the makings of being the hero of the new line up.

Sapphire's Vapor-X edition features a spiffy cooler and full 1GB of RAM, as well as nice accessory package. In this article we'll look at HTPC and desktop use, as this card is aimed at low power and high performance scenarios.

Sapphire HD5750 Vapor-X

Sapphire HD5750 Vapor-X Highlights

• $139USD MSRP

• 710MHz 40nm Juniper core

• 1.04Bn transistors

• 9 SIMD / 720 Stream Processors

• 36 TUs / 16 ROPs

• 1GB GDDR5 @ 1160MHz (4.6Gbps)

• 18W idle / 86W load

• 1.008 TFLOPS Compute Performance