Sapphire 5970 4GB TOXIC
Introduction :
Back when the HD 5970 launched in November of 2009, it was the fastest video card on the planet. Fast forward almost 6 months and well, the HD 5970 is still the top dog when it comes to video cards. So what do you do to follow up the fastest video card on the planet? Well if you're Sapphire, you take the best and make it better. As ATI's largest partner, Sapphire has long been known as a source of high end graphics solutions that easily move to the top of the class when they receive the Toxic, Vapor-X or Atomic treatment. While I have not seen an Atomic video card since the HD 4890, the Toxic and Vapor-X cards have been making the rounds. The latest before this behemoth being the Toxic HD 5870 2GB that offered third party cooling and improved performance via higher clock speeds and additional frame buffer memory. Kind of the same story here, with the improvements made to the Toxic HD 5970 4GB. The HD 5970 is a stout card and Sapphire has made the Toxic even more robust with the addition of aftermarket cooling in the Arctic Cooling Xtreme HD 5970 as well as higher clock speeds. Lets see if the new kid has what it takes
to move to the front of the line.
Specifications :
Process | 40nm |
Transistors | 4.3 Billion |
Engine Clock | 900MHz |
Stream Processors | 3200 |
Texture Units | 160 |
ROP | 64 |
Memory Type | GDDR5 |
Memory Clock | 1200Mhz |
Features :
- Full Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
- ATI Eyefinity Technology, support up to 3 displays.
- ATI Stream technology
- Microsoft Windows 7 Support
- 40nm Process Technology
- Dual 2nd Generation TeraScale Engines
- Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
- Accelerated Video Transcoding
- Display Flexibility
- PCI Express® 2.1 support
- Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
- HDMI 1.3 support
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance.
- ATI Avivo HD Support
- ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video, Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)m DVD Upscaling, Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
- Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support: Requires application support for ATI Stream technology
- System Requirements: Sapphire HD 5970 System Requirements, PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard, 650 Watt or greater power supply one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 8-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) ,Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of certified products, Minimum 1GB of system memory, Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive, Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics card, an, ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI.
- Operation System Support: Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit); Windows Media Center Edition 2005, Windows 7
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