graphic card news – New king of the hill from Sapphire
Sapphire have just launched another version of the dual cored Radeon HD5970, the HD5970 4G Toxic, which as you might have guessed from the name comes with a massive 4GB of GDDR5 memory.
Not only does the new card come with a massive memory buffer, but being from the Toxic family it also has factory overclocked core and memory clocks. The core’s are clocked at 900MHz, 175MHz faster than the standard card, while the memory has been heavily tweaked to run at 1,200MHz (4.8GHz effective), 200MHz (800MHz effective) over the the reference design, making it the fastest card on the planet at time of release.
Keeping this massive beastie ( it measures 12in in length), cool are three 92mm Arctic Cooling dual ball bearing fans.
Look out for benchmark results and lab report coming soon.
Friday April 30th 2010
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graphic card news – Sapphire unleash 2GB Toxic and Vapor-X HD5870
Sapphire have just announced 2GB frame buffer versions of thier Toxic and Vapor-X Radeon HD5870′s. The Toxic features an overclocked core engine, up from the default 850MHz to 950MHz while the GDDR5 memory gets a boost from the standard 1,200MHz (4.8GHz effective) up to 1,225MHz (4.9GHz effective) all sitting under a Vapor-X cooler
The Vapor-X version has the same 2GB frame buffer and Vapor-X cooling but keeps the clock speeds at the default settings
Look out for benchmark results and lab report’s coming soon.
Thursday April 15th 2010
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graphic card news – AMD hit a 6
The latest devolpment of AMD’s mighty 5 series graphics architecture is the ATI Radeon HD5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card, the first consumer graphics card able to power six, yes six displays, up to a theoretical maximum resolution of 8,192 x 8,192! To put that into some kind of perspective, six 30in (2,560 by 1,600) monitors arranged in a 3 by 2 landscape set up will only give you a resolution of 7,680 by 3,200.
The Eyefinity 6 Edition uses a single HD5870 (Cypress) core clocked at the reference 850MHz but has a 2GB frame buffer, double that of the reference HD5870, which in turn has meant a slight rise in the power requirements of the card (228W peak, 34W idle) and now one of the two 6-pin PCI-E power adaptors of the standard card has been replaced by an eight pin one, with the cooler remaining the same as the reference HD580. The memory speed is also still the same with the GDDR 5 having an effective speed of 4,800MHz.
The major external change is on the backplate where the usual array of ports have been replaced by six Mini DisplayPort connectors but only two of these can be converted to DVI, HDMI (only one) or VGA using the adaptors provided in the box; two mini-DisplayPort-to-DisplayPort adapters, a passive mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI dongle and two passive mini DisplayPort-to-DVI (single-link) dongles.
So far just two companies have released versions of the HD5870 6 Eyefinity Edition, Sapphire (Sapphire HD5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition) and ASUS (EYEFINITY 6/6S/2GD)
Thursday April 1st 2010
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Sapphire have just launched another version of the dual cored Radeon HD5970, the HD5970 4G Toxic, which as you might have guessed from the name comes with a massive 4GB of GDDR5 memory.
