Marketing description

The Sapphire HD 7700 series is a family of graphics cards targeting the enthusiast on a budget and mainstream users looking for increased graphics performance. It is based on the second family of GPUs from AMD built in its 28nm process and featuring the highly acclaimed GCN optimized graphics processing architecture.

Key selling points

• Dual-link DVI
• HDMI (with 3D)
• Mini-DisplayPort
• DisplayPort 1.2
• Advanced GDDR5 Memory technology
• AMD Eyefinity
• AMD HD3D technology
• 28nm GCN (Graphic Core Next) architecture
• PCI Express 3.0
• AMD Eyefinity 2.0
• Enhanced multi-GPU capabilities
• Discrete digital multi-point audio
• Microsoft DirectX 11
• Shader Model 5.0
• OpenGL 4.2
• Best Microsoft DirectX11 support
• AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Dolby TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio support
• AMD PowerTune technology
• Enhanced Internet browser applications
• AMD PowerPlay with ZeroCore Power technology
• Accelerated Internet applications rendering
• AMD HD media accelerator
• Cutting-edge quad HD display support (4K support)

Product features

• Dual-link DVI
  Equipped with the most popular dual link DVI (Digital Visual Interface), this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.
• HDMI (with 3D)
  Support for deep color, 7.1 high bitrate audio, and 3D stereoscopic, ensuring the highest quality Blu-ray and video experience possible from your PC.
• Mini-DisplayPort
  Enjoy the benefits of the latest generation display interface, DisplayPort. With the ultra high HD resolution, the graphics card ensures that you are able to support the latest generation of LCD monitors.
• DisplayPort 1.2
  Doubling the effective bandwidth of previous DisplayPort implementations, DisplayPort 1.2 now includes support for multi-stream, allowing you to drive up to four separate monitors from a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector, Stereoscopic 3D monitor support and adds support for high quality, lossless, 7.1 channel audio formats.
• Advanced GDDR5 Memory technology
  GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.
• AMD Eyefinity
  AMD Eyefinity technology maximizes your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision. For gamers this puts you right in the game and for other applications it helps to increase productivity by maximizing your visual workspace so that you can see more windows simultaneously. AMD Eyefinity technology is also ideal for multimedia applications as it allows you to keep several 'palettes' or 'panels' open over a larger workspace whist you edit your images or videos.
• AMD HD3D technology
  Enjoy the most immersive experience possible with full support for high definition Stereoscopic 3D, a technique that presents 2D images (movies, games, photos) in a format that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth when using compatible 3D displays/glasses/software.
• 28nm GCN (Graphic Core Next) architecture
  The 28nm GCN architecture with more efficient process technology puts more transistors in less space, enabling a dramatic increase in processing power. Crank the settings, devastate your enemies and bear witness to absurdly high frame rates with AMD Radeon HD7000 series graphics card - DirectX 11 has never looked this good. Maximum setting and crazy performance shouldn't be a compromise. The AMD Radeon HD7900 Series with the 28nm GCN architecture assures that it's not.
• PCI Express 3.0
  PCI-Express 3.0 delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU (GPU communication - up to 16GB/sec in each direction), maximizing the performance from your GPU when paired with the latest platforms.
• AMD Eyefinity 2.0
  The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and display configurations. Face it: the best just got better: The enhancements for AMD Radeon HD7000 series include: stereo 3D-multi-display stereoscopic 3D support via DisplayPort 16K x 16K maximum display group resolution-output up to 268 megapixels per GPU.
• Enhanced multi-GPU capabilities
  Triple or quadruple gaming power with AMD CrossFireX Multi-GPU technology. Increase your gaming performance up to 2x with AMD CrossFire technology, 2.75x for TriFire configurations, or with QuadFire configurations. With AMD ZeroCore Power technology, the graphics card in slave modes will be switched off in idle to maximize the power saving.
• Discrete digital multi-point audio
  The AMD Redeon HD 7900 Series is the first GPU that can simultaneously output multiple and discrete audio streams via HDMI and DisplayPort output.
• Microsoft DirectX 11
  Get intense gaming performance and unrivaled image quality with stunning 3D visual effects, realistic lighting and lifelike imagery with Sapphire graphics cards supporting DirectX 11. Features in DirectX 11 such as hardware tessellation, HDR texture compression, multi-threading support and DirectCompute bring lifelike gaming and an experience never possible on a PC before.
• Shader Model 5.0
  Supports the Shader Model 5.0 feature set including VTF (Vertex Texture Fetch) which is a key feature used extensively in many of the games that ship today. Without support for this feature the game will fall back to a lesser shader path resulting in the loss of cool, lifelike effects made possible by Shader Model 5.0.
• OpenGL 4.2
  OpenGL 4.2 improves the GPU efficiency by improving the shader process operation and capturing GPU tessellated geometry. The process of modifying an arbitrary subset of compress texture is also simplified. The memory management in handling shaders is more efficient as well.
• Best Microsoft DirectX11 support
  The tessellation performance on AMD Radeon HD7000 is up to 2x faster than the previous generation, and DirectCompute performance is also faster to accelerate advanced post-processing, filtering, and anti-aliasing techniques. Direct X11 games has never looked this good.
• AMD Catalyst Control Center
  The AMD Catalyst Control Center software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual quality of your Sapphire AMD Radeon based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC.
• Dolby TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio support
  Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies.
• AMD PowerTune technology
  AMD PowerTune is a breakthrough technology that sets an entirely new direction for maximum performance at TDP. It allows the GPU to be designed with higher engine clock speeds which can be applied on the broad set of applications that have thermal headroom.
• Enhanced Internet browser applications
  Not just for video and games, the power of your GPU can now accelerate the latest versions of some Internet browsers (IE9/Mozzilla FireFox) utilizing direct 2D rendering for a faster and more responsive browsing experience including high quality image rendering and media playback.
• AMD PowerPlay with ZeroCore Power technology
  AMD PowerPlay is a power management technology in response to the GPU loading, AMD PowerPlay automatically manages the power consumption. AMD Radeon HD7000 Series with AMD ZeroCore Power technology, the power consumption can be as low as less than 3 Watt when idle, making the best use of power.
• Accelerated Internet applications rendering
  The AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series accelerates the rendering performance with the latest web browsers (IE10, Firefox 6) and programming interfaces (Direct2D, HTML5, WebGL, Flash 11/Molehill).
• AMD HD media accelerator
  AMD HD media accelerator has been designed to help optimize and dramatically improve video playback on your computer by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration from your AMD Radeon GPU. With full 3D stereoscopic decode you can enjoy it all in 3D. AMD HD media accelerator speeds up the decode of one 1080p and one 1080i HD video streams simultaneously by hardware, and the hardware encodes/transcoder processes your media content faster than ever!
• Cutting-edge quad HD display support (4K support)
  The display resolution on AMD Radeon HD7000 series is quadrupled to the resolution of 4K x 2K (4096 x 2160) from the outputs of DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI.