A Closer Look

This card uses a direct-touch cooler with two heatpipes.


The card requires a single 6-pin PCI-Express power cable for operation. This power configuration is good for up to 150 W of power draw.


The card uses an ST L6788A for voltage control. This controller is standard for the HD 7700 class and is used on many other designs. It has basic support for software voltage control.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Elpida and carry the model number W2032BBBG-50-F. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (5000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


AMD's Cape Verde graphics processor uses the GCN shader architecture; it is also the second GPU to be produced on a 28 nm process at TSMC. The transistor count is 1.5 billion.