This is no ordinary 5750 because it consumes a lot less power then the average 5750, without loosing performance because of the "Efficient Energy Transforming Technology". This video card is the first of the 'unplugged line-up'. In other words the HD 5750 should be able to get its power from the PCIe slot.

Conclusion: The reviewers gave it an innovation award because it uses 21% less power then the reference 5750 video card, no extra cables are required from the PSU, and above all it still performs very well and is dead silent because of its passive cooler. Overclocking took a lot longer than usual, but after some tweaking it had a very good OC performance. The framerates that were achieved in the benchmarks can be considered playable. It's recommended for anyone looking for a silent video card that still performs great.

Overclocking: The card didn't want to stay stable at any clock speed the reviewers set it at in the beginning, in the end they were able to OC it with the Core clock @813Mhz and the Memory clock of @1308Mhz, a gain of 16.1% and 13.7% respectively. The Core I7 920 CPU was also overclocked in the nenchmarks @ 3.2GHz.

Test Setup: mainboard: MSI X58 Platinum -- Memory: DDR3 3x2GB Mushkin PC12800 -- CPU Water Cooler -- Case: Thermaltake Xaser VI -- OS: Vista x64.

Compared to: ASUS EAH5970, ATI HD 4970, BFG GTX 285 & 295, Gigabyte GTS 250, Ladybird GTX 285, MSI N240GT, PowerColor HD 5830 PCS+, Sapphire HD 5770, VisionTek HD 4870 & HD 5750.

Benchmarks 3D Mark Vantage, Crysis Warhead, Bioshock, Far Cry 2, Blunderbuss, Batman: Arkham Aslyum, WIC, UT 3, Resident Evil V, Furmark, H.A.W.X., Power draw, Temperature.

Temperatures: Idle 43 degrees Celsius, @full load 63 degrees celsius.

Power Consumption: Idle 131 watts, @full load 181 watts. It had the lowest result of all the graphics cards that were compared, the reviewers used the Kill A Watt P4400 power meter to measure the power draw of the entire system.

AMD Radeon HD 5000 cards have lower power consumption nowadays and better a performance per Watt than older video graphics cards, especially idle power consumption is important here because a desktop computer could be running all day, this card does not use active cooling and does not have an extra PCI-Express power connector, so it can draw only 75 watts. The case should have sufficient airflow though.

The card is clocked @ 700MHz the same speed as a radeon 5750 with active air-cooling, and is equipped with one gigabyte memory that runs @1150MHz.