Tuesday, September 16th 2008

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC 512MB GDDR5 Video Card Spotted

AMD/ATI's graphics partner Sapphire has released today Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC, an overclocked Radeon HD 4870 card with a custom cooling on it. What makes this card so special is the patented Vapor-X cooling system and its clock speeds higher than the reference boards. The cooling itself takes up two slots, makes use of a Vapour Chamber technology and features a thermally-controlled fan supported by three copper heatpipes. The new TOXIC model is also factory-overclocked to 780MHz GPU from 750MHz stock speed and 4000MHz memory from 3600MHz stock respectively. The card is equipped with 512MB GDDR5 memory. It offers 800 Stream Processors, has DirectX 10.1 and CrossFireX support, a PCI-Express 2.0 interface and two DVI connectors. Except that and maybe the fancy retail box it ships with, there's nothing else about this card that could interest you more. Pricing and availability are still unknown.
Source: Donanim Haber
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28 Comments on Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC 512MB GDDR5 Video Card Spotted

#26
rfvasquez
OnBoardYou sure he wasn't pulling your leg (or he was, but didn't know it himself :p). It doesn't look anything like VF1000, for starters it's upside down:
www.obsidiangaming.com/images/pcbuild2007/ZalmanVF1000_8800GT.jpg
www.techpowerup.com/img/07-12-13/MSI_NX8800GT_Zilent_Series_02.jpg
Yes - I'm sure - it's a "Modded" Zalman, the pipes are a bit different, and the unit is turned around, but if you look at the center fan placement, the cooler fins, and overall shape, you can pretty much see the incredible resemblance. Why would the dude bullshit me? The VF1000 is the closest looking to it - I guess Sapphire had them make a modded cooler based on the VF1000 - flat, center fan, heat pipes - looks like 3 instead of 4 - perhaps the extended loop on the right sight is to compensate for only 3 pipes.

Looks cool - gonna order two when they are available.
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#27
Wshlist
OnBoardNope, you recall the special version of 3870 that had a vapor chamber cooler. Vapor champer is a flat heatpipe, so that works great under the heatpipes to make a good contact to the core and distribute the heat in to them.

Xigmatek's BATTLE-AXE VD964 could use one of those, as this happens:
pics.computerbase.de/2/0/4/9/0/14.jpg
There was a flat square bulge underneath my 4850 cooler.
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#28
OnBoard
WshlistThere was a flat square bulge underneath my 4850 cooler.
Yours looks like this?


Regular


And 3870 Atomic


That first pics cooler bottom does look very much like the Atomics vapor chamber bottom, so yes, I was wrong :) However it was 4C worse on idle and only 4.5C cooler (91C) on load, so not the best.
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