Sapphire Readies HD 5850 Toxic Graphics Card

btarunr · Feb 12, 2010, 01:02 PM

Sapphire is making an addition to its Toxic series graphics card that feature non-reference design with out of the box higher clock speeds, based on the ATI Radeon HD 5850 GPU. The Toxic HD 5850. It features what appears to be a non-reference blue PCB by Sapphire, a non-reference cooler with a dash of racy blue graphics, and higher clock speeds. Its GPU is clocked at 765 MHz and memory at 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective), against reference clock speeds of 725 MHz and 1000 (4000 eff.) MHz, respectively. The Radeon HD 5850 GPU is DirectX 11 compliant, has 1440 stream processors, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface. There's 1 GB of memory on board. It is expected to be released on or before 15th Feb. Online store Overclockers UK has listed this card before its announcement at £269.99 including applicable tax, though we expect the price to come down after release.

Aleksander · Feb 12, 2010, 01:02 PM

WOW great card!

afw · Feb 12, 2010, 01:11 PM

simply stunning ...

Paulieg · Feb 12, 2010, 01:20 PM

Toxic cards are always overpriced until like a year after they are released.

inferKNOX · Feb 12, 2010, 01:30 PM

Aw, how disappointing; non-reference + the OC is below my OC on stock volts?!
I would have sold my 5850 to buy it for it's cooler design, but that won't do now.

Next step... 5870.

btarunr · Feb 12, 2010, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulieg

Toxic cards are always overpriced until like a year after they are released.

That's OCUK, so don't come to conclusions just yet.

LifeOnMars · Feb 12, 2010, 01:34 PM

YUM, that blue would look very nice in my system with my blue power supply and blue fans............ i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

InnocentCriminal · Feb 12, 2010, 02:14 PM

As always, interested in reviews.

Oh, and OcUK are assholes!

[I.R.A]_FBi · Feb 12, 2010, 02:21 PM

plz drive down 5850 prices

Gjohnst4 · Feb 12, 2010, 03:16 PM

The clocks are low because AMD is keeping a lid on the allowed Overclocks for now. Leaves more room for the "refresh" later. These cards will shine with customers who flash the Bios and overclock the hell out of them. Im personally mad I just bought a reference because this looks great! My toxic 3870, which was the first generation vapor chamber, overclocked soooooo well.

a_ump · Feb 12, 2010, 03:19 PM

looks awesome though, stunnin design.

TVman · Feb 12, 2010, 03:20 PM

awesome card!!!!

copenhagen69 · Feb 12, 2010, 03:27 PM

it says release date 2-15 on the UK site ... can we expect the same in the US?

pantherx12 · Feb 12, 2010, 03:32 PM

Wow a stockcooler I wouldn't mind keeping on

good job Sapphire.

chaotic_uk · Feb 12, 2010, 03:59 PM

to me the blue is to much lol

douglatins · Feb 12, 2010, 04:03 PM

How i wished i got two 5850 instead of a 5970

eidairaman1 · Feb 12, 2010, 08:14 PM

we need to have one of these boards disected

Hunt3r · Feb 12, 2010, 09:03 PM

I found it pretty well..but the vapor-x is more beautiful

MKmods · Feb 12, 2010, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hunt3r

I found it pretty well..but the vapor-x is more beautiful

The Vapor X was a better cooler too..
It will be interesting to see if this cooler is improved from the last gen junk Toxic coolers.

Kitkat · Feb 12, 2010, 10:14 PM

lol its ugly

sorry they just over did it

Aleksander · Feb 12, 2010, 10:43 PM

Yeah, the design is really toxic for the eyes :'(

Lionheart · Feb 12, 2010, 10:56 PM

This looks way better!

TheMailMan78 · Feb 12, 2010, 11:40 PM

Is it me or are those clocks kinda low? I mean my 5850 is OC more than that just using catalyst. However it might have a good bios to flash to that would allow even higher clocks without having to use Afterburner.

eidairaman1 · Feb 12, 2010, 11:43 PM

It is a Modest overclock, Reminds me of how the Radeon X1950 Pro from them was a Cut above Stock, by say 5MHz

kylzer · Feb 13, 2010, 04:59 PM

Damn i need this.

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Feb 12, 2010, 10:43 PM	#21
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