AMD’s HD 7000 Series Goes Mainstream: HD 7770 & HD 7750

On Monday, we posted some pictures of an interesting piece of swag AMD sent our way; a faux pill prescription for “Verdetrol”. Today, the company has released the product those pills hinted at, based on the ‘Cape Verde’ architecture. Those products come in the form of the Radeon HD 7770 and HD 7750, the first mainstream parts to fall into the 7000 series.

The HD 7770 is going to be priced at $159, while the HD 7750 will be available for much less, at $109. These prices put these cards in direct competition with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 560 (~$169) and GTX 550 Ti (~$119).

When AMD released its Radeon HD 5770 a couple of years ago, it immediately became one of the most popular mainstream cards out there. It offered superb performance for the price, and that of course matters. The HD 7770 is meant to follow up to that legacy, by once again offering great performance for a great price, while decreasing power consumption and packing in newer features.

Here’s a quick run-down of AMD’s current HD 7000 series line-up:

One thing that AMD is touting with these cards is that no features have been left out, so PCIe 3.0, SSAA, HDMI 1.4a and all that other good stuff is here. There’s something notable to mention about the HD 7770 in particular, however. With this release, that GPU becomes the world’s first to be clocked at 1,000MHz (1GHz). For the regular user, that doesn’t mean much… performance does.

Our review for these GPUs will be posted next week, stay tuned!