Sapphire Outdoes Themselves With Overclocked 5850

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Earlier this month, we covered Sapphire’s newest ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card, which came apart of their Toxic series. Their Toxic series cards provide a bit more GPU clockspeed and Video RAM than the stock AMD card. Less than a month later they’ve announced another Radeon 5850 Toxic card and this one outdoes their card from earlier this month.

Like the previous Toxic 5850 card, this one is built on the blue PCB board and features the custom non-stock dual-slot Vapor-X cooler on the card. The Vapor-X cooler has a central fan that is supposed to be quieter than the fan found on the stock AMD card.

Like the stock card, it’ll have the same 1440 stream processors but offers a factory overclock with the clockspeed being set to 765MH (vs. 725MHz for the reference card) It’ll also offer a whopping 2GB of GDDR5 video memory that’s clocked at a 4500MHz (while the default reference card has its memory running at 4000MHz).

It’s Eyefinity-ready like all the 5000-series cards with its three video ports being two DVI and one HDMI port. Some sources have cited a DisplayPort also included, so it’s possible that Sapphire is introducing two SKUs, probably one with HDMI and another with DisplayPort. Also like the Radeon HD 5000 series cards, it will have 256-bit interface and DirectX 11 support.

The new card is set to come out next week with an MSRP of €300 ($400) while the other 1GB is currently going around €270 ($360) Fudzilla reports.