Monday, February 15th 2021
Sapphire Prepping a Return to Form With Toxic and Atomic Graphics Card Designs?
Sapphire via Weibo teased a new, impending product launch to occur within the next few days. Details are all but absent - the only thing we have to go on is the company's teaser image, which features a TA branding in prominent gold. It's been speculated that this teaser may refer to a Sapphire return to some of its most well-known sub-brands for their graphics cards products - the TOXIC and ATOMIC series.
The TOXIC branding hasn't graced Sapphire's cards ever since the RX 390X days; it's historically been the company's highest-tier, enthusiast-focused graphics cards on air cooling. the ATOMIC series, on the other hand, is Sapphire's AIO-integrated lineup of graphics cards, which the company has kept dormant since way back in 2013, with the AMD Radeon HD 7990 - a beautiful piece of engineering featuring a pair of AMD's Tahiti XT2 cores - and featured 3 GB of GDDR5 memory mirrored for each of the GPU cores. The TA branding might also represent a new design from Sapphire, rather than a return to old lineups, but we'll have to wait for Sapphire's announcement proper to dispel any lingering doubts.
Sources:
Sapphire @ Weibo, via Videocardz
The TOXIC branding hasn't graced Sapphire's cards ever since the RX 390X days; it's historically been the company's highest-tier, enthusiast-focused graphics cards on air cooling. the ATOMIC series, on the other hand, is Sapphire's AIO-integrated lineup of graphics cards, which the company has kept dormant since way back in 2013, with the AMD Radeon HD 7990 - a beautiful piece of engineering featuring a pair of AMD's Tahiti XT2 cores - and featured 3 GB of GDDR5 memory mirrored for each of the GPU cores. The TA branding might also represent a new design from Sapphire, rather than a return to old lineups, but we'll have to wait for Sapphire's announcement proper to dispel any lingering doubts.
20 Comments on Sapphire Prepping a Return to Form With Toxic and Atomic Graphics Card Designs?
I forgot about it all these years later, but man seeing this again sure takes me back.
It would be nice if they brought back the Vapor-X design aswell
HD 4890 ATOMIC is one of the more iconic models
Newer Sapphire cards looks little bit boring and lost their uniqueness and identity
www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-hd-3870-toxic/
After that one came the 280X (it was yellow, but wasn't a TOXIC edition) and my dad put the 7790 in his rig. I actually still have BOTH of those cards; the 280X is in the computer downstairs (if only because the mobo doesn't have display ports), so it's still chuggin' along. The 7790 is still in my dad's rig, but that PC hasn't been fired up in 3 years, ever since he passed away :(
After my 280X came the RX580 Nitro. I loved that card, even if its design was kind of boring. Fucking thing was a tank. Never had a single problem with it. I sold it a couple months ago because I've been using the GTX 1660 Super for a year now, give or take.
Sapphire is, and always will be, my go-to for AMD cards. :rockout: