Friday, February 12th 2010

Sapphire Readies HD 5850 Toxic Graphics Card
Sapphire is making an addition to its Toxic series graphics card that feature non-reference design with out of the box higher clock speeds, based on the ATI Radeon HD 5850 GPU. The Toxic HD 5850. It features what appears to be a non-reference blue PCB by Sapphire, a non-reference cooler with a dash of racy blue graphics, and higher clock speeds. Its GPU is clocked at 765 MHz and memory at 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective), against reference clock speeds of 725 MHz and 1000 (4000 eff.) MHz, respectively. The Radeon HD 5850 GPU is DirectX 11 compliant, has 1440 stream processors, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface. There's 1 GB of memory on board. It is expected to be released on or before 15th Feb. Online store Overclockers UK has listed this card before its announcement at £269.99 including applicable tax, though we expect the price to come down after release.
29 Comments on Sapphire Readies HD 5850 Toxic Graphics Card
I would have sold my 5850 to buy it for it's cooler design, but that won't do now.:shadedshu
Next step... 5870.:ohwell:
Oh, and OcUK are assholes!
good job Sapphire.
It will be interesting to see if this cooler is improved from the last gen junk Toxic coolers.