Sapphire Vapor-X HD 6750 1GB GDDR5 128-Bits Gaming Graphics Card

The Sapphire Vapor-X HD 6750 is a mid-range gaming graphics card. It features a Juniper GPU variant, specifically the Juniper LE (215-0754009), which is based on the TeraScale 2 architecture. This GPU was manufactured by TSMC using a 40 nm process, with 1,040 million transistors and a die size of 166 mm², resulting in a transistor density of 6.3 million per mm². The chip package is FCBGA-962.

Specifications and Performance

The Sapphire Vapor-X HD 6750 was released on January 21st, 2011, with an updated version on April 8th, 2011. It belongs to the Northern Islands generation (HD 6700 series) and succeeded the Evergreen series. The card is end-of-life and connects via a PCIe 2.0 x16 bus interface.

Clock Speeds and Memory

• GPU Clock Speed: 700 MHz (standard), 710 MHz (+1%) for the updated version.
• Memory Clock Speed: 1150 MHz (standard), 1160 MHz (+1%) for the updated version, with an effective speed of 4.6 Gbps.
• Memory Size: 1024 MB of GDDR5.
• Memory Bus: 128-bit.
• Bandwidth: 73.60 GB/s (standard), 74.24 GB/s (updated version).

Render Config and Performance

• Shading Units: 720
• Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 36
• Render Output Units (ROPs): 16
• Compute Units (CUs): 9
• L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU
• L2 Cache: 256 KB

Theoretical Performance

• Pixel Rate: 11.20 GPixel/s (standard), 11.36 GPixel/s (updated version).
• Texture Rate: 25.20 GTexel/s (standard), 25.56 GTexel/s (updated version).
• Floating Point Performance (FP32): 1,008 GFLOPS (standard), 1,022 GFLOPS (updated version).

Board Design and Power

The card has a dual-slot width and measures 170 mm (6.7 inches) in length for the standard version and 201 mm (7.9 inches) for the updated version. It has a TDP of 86 watts and requires a 250-watt PSU. The board includes a single 6-pin power connector.

Outputs and Features

• Outputs:
  • Standard: 2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
  • Updated: 2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
• Graphics Features:
  • DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
  • OpenGL 4.4
  • OpenCL 1.2
  • Vulkan: N/A
  • Shader Model: 5.0

The Sapphire Vapor-X HD 6750 is a capable gaming graphics card from its era, suitable for mid-range gaming and multimedia tasks, offering a balanced mix of performance and features for its time.