AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 GPU Reviews

Name: Radeon HD 7770
Brand: Radeon

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

Metro 2033

DirecX11 Gaming Performance

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is your basic post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment, but rather you’re left to deal with life, or lack there-of more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators. The game is loosely based on a novel by Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2003 boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform currently including a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. This title also supports NVIDIA PhysX technology for impressive in-game physics effects. We tested the game resolutions of 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 with adaptive anti-aliasing and in-game image quality options set to their High Quality mode, with DOF effects disabled.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the performance trend we've seen up to this point continued in the Metro 2033 benchmark. The Radeon HD 7770 trailed the GeForce GTX 560, but outpaced the GeForce GTX 550, while the Radeon HD 7750 trailed everything but the Radeon HD 6670.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, dx11, 7770, 7750, Cape-Verde

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com