They differ because of their choice of VRAM memory chips

Jul 10, 2013 11:58 GMT  ·  By

The AMD Radeon HD 7730 is a sort of bridge between the lower end of the graphics card market, and the mid-to-high end.

Sapphire decided to make the bridge a bit wider and easier to travel by releasing two versions of it.

One of them, the HD 7730 1GB, sounds like it might be the weaker one. After all, the other one has 2 GB VRAM.

That's where people would be wrong though. The former may only have 1 GB, but it's GDDR5 at 4,500 MHz, while the latter has 2 GB of DDR3 at 1.800 MHz.

In any event, both boards possess three video outputs (DVI, HDMI, VGA) and GPUs with a clock speed of 800 MHz and 384 Stream Processors. Two monitors can be used at once by a single card.

The official announcement did not include any pricing info.