Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 Vapor-X

Sapphire HD 6770 Vapor-X review

As much as we've railed against Nvidia in recent times for confusingly re-branding graphics cards and GPUs with newer series numbers without changing silicon, AMD is not averse to the practice either. The simple fact is there is almost no difference between its HD 6770 Vapor-X and the old school HD 5770. Nvidia has done this before, re-badging the excellent 8800GTX multiple times, each vaguely dulling that excellence as it emerged. First it became the 9800GTX and then later the GTS 250, with very little modification.Almost the same has happened here with the HD 6770 coming out with the exact same silicon onboard, in fact AMD almost seemed a little sheepish about the launch of this card and didn't really seem to make any noise about it at all. Despite the 6-series naming update for the card though vendors don't seem to be asking for any more than the standard new HD 5770s still in the marketplace.Though realistically it's going to kill any second-hand market of the HD 5770 as most people will automatically assume that the card with the higher number is going to be the faster chip. If you look at the specs of both the Sapphire HD 6770 and XFX HD 5770 there is almost no difference at all.