Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate 1GB Graphics Card

Taking a first look at the card, you will see that the thing looks to be a bit of a monster and resembles something from the Transformers franchise. The card is covered by the large passive heatsink with connecting heatpipes. Though it looks heavy, the card is considerably light due to the lightweight elements of the cooler.

The heatsink follows along the top of the card, and wraps around the rear. It also stick out of the end of the card to give some serious cooling power. With the right ventilation inside your chassis, this card could be kept at very low temperatures considering it has no active cooling solution.

The middle of the cooler includes a black heatshield with Sapphire branding. This shield also follows along the top of the card so it can be seen if sitting inside a windowed chassis. A warning sticker reminds you that this card gets extremely hot.

Due to the type of card and the size of the cooler, we find no ability for CrossFireX and also no need for any external power, due to the passive cooling design. This leaves it easy for consumers to simply plug and play this card into their machine. The card will take two expansion slots in your chassis and the cooler doesn’t extend past this.

On the rear I/O of the card, we find a single, dual-link DVI connector, HDMI and full-size DisplayPort. These are the same connectors that we will find on a reference Radeon HD 7750. The second part of the card includes a large selection of ventilation ports to exhaust any hot air that this passive design omits.

When we take a look at GPU-Z we find a set of stock speeds at 800MHz on the core clock and 1125MHz on the memory clock. While this may not seem impressive over a reference card, you have to remember that this is a PASSIVE graphics card, and performing with those speeds is a fantastic achievement on its own.