Overview Radeon HD 7730 is a Fast‎-Middle‎-Class Graphics Card based on the First revision of the GCN Architecture‎.‎

Architecture The GCN Architecture succeeds the 40nm Terascale Architecture‎.‎ In addition to being produced with a 28nm Technology‎,‎ the GCN Architecture adds other Technologies that allow for energy efficiency‎.‎ For example‎,‎ ZeroCore Power‎,‎ a long idle power saving technology‎,‎ allows the Graphics Cards to shut down by itself when the Monitor is turned off‎.‎ GCN also adds Improved Anisotropic Filtering‎,‎ DirectX 11 Tessellation and the Partially Resident Textures ‎(‎PRT‎)‎ Technology‎,‎ which enables future games to utilize ultra‎-high resolution textures with the same performance as today‎'‎s small and often repetitive textures‎.‎

GPU It equips a GPU codenamed Cape Verde LE which has 6 Compute Units activated and thus offers 384 Shader Processing Units‎,‎ 24 TMUs and 8 ROPs‎.‎ The Central Unit Operates at 800MHz‎.‎

Memory The GPU accesses a 1GB frame buffer of fast GDDR5‎,‎ through a 128‎-bit memory interface‎.‎ The size of the frame buffer is adequate‎.‎ The memory clock operates at 1125MHz‎.‎

Features DirectX 11.0 Support ‎(‎11.0 Hardware Default‎)‎ and support for Crossfire‎,‎ PowerTune Technology‎,‎ Eyefinity‎,‎ App Acceleration‎,‎ HD3D‎,‎ ZeroCore Power and other technologies‎.‎

Cooling Solution The Cooling Solution consists of a Single‎-Fan‎.‎

Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 47W‎,‎ it requires at least a 400W PSU and it relies entirely on the PCI Slot for power‎,‎ meaning no extra connectors are required‎.‎

Performance Gaming benchmarks put its performance somewhat above a GeForce GT 640‎.‎

System Suggestions We recommend a modest processor ‎(‎Intel Core i3‎)‎ and 8GB of RAM for a system with Radeon HD 7730‎.‎