Sapphire HD 5750 1GB Vapor-X Video Card Review

Sapphire HD 5750 1GB Vapor-X Specifications

Lately, Sapphire’s Vapor-X products haven’t been seeing many huge bumps in clock speeds but that is to be expected as engineers come to grips with the limits of this new technology. The HD 5750 version isn’t much different with an overclock of just 10Mhz on the core and 40Mhz for the memory. This will make a difference in the charts but we can guarantee you that you will never see a difference when it comes to real-world gameplay.

Packaging & Accessories

As usual, the box for one of Sapphire’s Vapor-X products comes in an extremely light colored package but we tend to like this fresh and somewhat unique graphical design. It includes all of the information we have come to expect along with a lack of clock speed information but what we do like is one small addition: a HWC Dam Good logo on the back of the box. That’s right; there have been many times in the past where Sapphire’s products have won awards here and they are more than welcome to proclaim that on their products.


At times in the past we have wondered about the sanity of some board partners’ minimal protection within their shipping boxes but we have yet to fault Sapphire in this regard. With a partitioned cardboard insert holding the card for all its worth along with a bubble-wrap anti static bag, it would be very hard for a clumsy delivery guy to wreak havoc on your new purchase.


HD 5750 cards usually go light on the extra accessories and software but the Vapor-X comes with some items you don’t usually find on a run of the mill card. Along with the usual driver CD there is a disk containing ArcSoft SimHD IM which is a media upscaler plugin that allows traditionally low-def instant messaging video streaming (via webcam, etc.) to be viewed in high definition. There is also a voucher for a digital download of the upcoming DiRT 2 DX11 game, a Molex to 6-pin PCI-E adaptor and a DVI to VGA dongle.