Thread: Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5970 with 4 GB graphic card

For several years, the flamboyant Toxic graphics card manufacturer's product range includes Sapphire. After having already had a Radeon HD 5970 with 2 x 1 GB GDDR5 memory the program, was joined by the Toxic added as a special edition and is based on "Petunia" project by AMD / ATI, which makes more power for 5970 boards possible. This card not only has 2x 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, but also higher clock speeds.During the 2 x 1 GB version of the HD 5970 on the frequencies of HD 5850 (725/1000 MHz) is, was the Special Edition with 4 GB memory (900/1200 MHz) again significantly accelerated.



When provided with the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5970 makes no compromises and provides the packaging of the card generous with accessories. Thus we find in addition to two current Full Games (Call of Duty 2 and Colin McRae DiRT 2) are also a number of different adapters for connecting display devices of different design. The previously mandatory DVI-VGA adapter is complemented by a DVI-HDMI version. Since the Sapphire card in addition to dual-DVI provides a mini-DisplayPort, it has settled a corresponding adapter for standard DisplayPort connector at full size. The highlight is the active DisplayPort DVI adapter that allows conventional monitors operated on DisplayPort

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD builds 5970, guess what the name says, on ATI Radeon HD 5970 technology from AMD. In 5970, it is a dual-GPU graphics card, consisting of two RV870 (code name: Cypress) chips that can communicate via a special switch chip with each other. On the HD 5970 XT cards are installed versions of the RV870 chip, which offers a total of 320 shader units for complex calculations. The 5900 Series also offers the Eyefinity technology. Thanks Eyefinity can no longer only a maximum of two displays are addressed by the graphics card, but a total of three (standard versions). The number of controllable display also doubles Eyefinity by special versions of appropriate graphics card to a total of six.