Sapphire HD 7770 FleX edition brings inexpensive Eyefinity to gaming and productivity

Our test system

Test Configuration

Test Configuration – Hardware

• Intel Core i7-3770K (reference 3.5/3.7GHz; 4.80 GHz); Turbo is on.
• EVGA Z77 FTW (Intel Z77 chipset, latest beta BIOS, PCIe 3.0 specification; CrossFire/SLI 16x+16x PLEX chip).
• 8 GB OCZ DDR3 PC 1866 Kingston RAM (2x4GB, dual-channel at 1866MHz; supplied by Kingston)
• Sapphire HD 7770 FleX (GHz) Edition (1GB, 1000/1125MHz), supplied by Sapphire
• Sapphire HD 7770 GHz OC Edition (1 GB, 1150/1250MHz), supplied by Sapphire
• GTX 550 Ti (800/1600MHz, reference clocks) supplied by Nvidia
• Onboard Realtek Audio
• 500GB Seagate 7200.12 Hard disk drive
• Thermaltake ToughPower 775 W power supply unit supplied by Thermaltake
• Thermaltake Overeer RX-I Case, supplied by Thermaltake
• Thermaltake Water2.0 Pro CPU watercooler, supplied by Thermaltake
• Philips DVD SATA writer
• HP LP3065 2560×1600 thirty inch LCD
• Three – ASUS VG236 1920×1080 23-inch displays, supplied by ASUS

Test Configuration – Software

• AMD Catalyst 12-8 used for both Radeon cards
• GeForce 305.37 for the GTX 560 Ti
• Windows 7 64-bit; very latest updates
• DirectX – latest
• All games are patched to their latest versions.
• vsync is forced off in the control panel.
• Varying AA enabled as noted on the charts; all in-game settings are specified with 16xAF always applied if possible; 16xAF forced in control panel for Crysis.
• All results show average frame rates.
• Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
• Windows 7 64, all DX9 titles were run under DX9 render paths, DX10 titles were run under DX10 render paths and DX11 titles under DX11 render paths.

The Benchmarks

As with all of our other games, in-game settings are maxed except where noted and levels of AA are noted on the performance summary charts. Resolutions used are 1920×1200 and 1680×1050.

• Vantage
• 3DMark 11
• Heaven 3.0
• Serious Sam, 3 BFE
• Alan Wake: American Nightmare
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Crysis
• World in Conflict
• Far Cry 2
• Just Cause 2
• Resident Evil 5
• Alien vs. Predator
• Battleforge
• STALKER, Call of Pripyat
• F1 2010
• Metro 2033
• Lost Planet 2
• H.A.W.X. 2
• Civilization 5
• Total War: Shogun II
• Crysis 2
• DiRT 3
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Batman: Arkham City
• Max Payne 3
• the Secret World

Let’s head to our benchmarks.