Thread: Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X

AMD when it launched the proposal has been highly successful 5870 View the full compatibility of the new DX11 card with the new libraries. The only factor that has slowed the spread a lot of new solutions to 40nm has been a considerable shortage in the production of chips with the new manufacturing process at TSMC.

This has meant that anyone who wanted a 5870 to add to your setup badasse little to the brand, creating a leveling of sales volumes for all producers.Sapphire is the first manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, and to appeal to buyers to focus on their products has created a product based on 5870 that would attract attention.



The idea is not new, since it's already been taken with the HD3800 and HD4800 series earlier, but did not make it any less valid.The recipe is simple. It is slightly retouched the base of the PCB 5870 with a reference circuit more resistant, are adjusted upward stock frequencies of operation and use a better heat sink to keep at bay the boiling the better gpu.

Sapphire has so accustomed to his versions and Toxic Vapor-X, mainly characterized by a dissipator with Vapor Chamber technology to better dissipate the heat generated from the card.The technology is very good so much so that AMD HD5970 uses that same technology in its motion to hold off the two gpu Cypress, as we saw in the previous review.

The card uses an operating frequency than the above, the GPU will increase from the stock 850MHz to 875MHz version of the Vapor-X version and the memory goes to 1200MHz to 1250MHz.