14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

This Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

How many years will the Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 488% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 895 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB as this is better than 684 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 339% better performance as well.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition is released on 13 Oct 2009

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GPU

Architecture

Terascale 2 Juniper XT

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

34 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

14 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units

800

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

1024 MB

Memory Speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus

128 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

76.8GB/sec

L2 Cache

256KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

860 MHz

Power

Max Power

108 Watts

PSU

500 Watt

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Pentium Dual Core E6700 3.2GHz

Best RAM Match

6 GB

Best Resolution

1600 x 900

GPU Upgrade

Radeon HD 6970

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Resolution Performance
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-	6	4.9	3	-

Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 5770 Sapphire Vapor-X Edition is a special edition of the Radeon HD 5770. See the page of the standard edition for more information about it.
Compared to the Radeon HD 5770, this Special Edition features overclocking out of the box in the core-clock which was increased by 10MHz to 860MHz and a new cooling system.
Unfortunately, benchmarks indicate the performance boost is below 1% when compared to the reference card.

Source [Pip]

CPU

Core i7-4790S 4-Core 3.2GHz

Graphics Card

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RAM

11GB

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Popular Game System Requirements
Game	Min.	Rec.
Red Dead Redemption 2	154%	346%
Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order	17%	513%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	142%	346%
Halo: Reach	38%	42%
Microsoft Flight Simulator	175%	513%
Cyberpunk 2077	175%	513%
Borderlands 3	188%	371%
FIFA 20	73%	138%
Death Stranding	175%	513%
Need For Speed Heat	150%	346%

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