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Sapphire Prepping a Return to Form With Toxic and Atomic Graphics Card Designs?

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Sapphire via Weibo teased a new, impending product launch to occur within the next few days. Details are all but absent - the only thing we have to go on is the company's teaser image, which features a TA branding in prominent gold. It's been speculated that this teaser may refer to a Sapphire return to some of its most well-known sub-brands for their graphics cards products - the TOXIC and ATOMIC series.

The TOXIC branding hasn't graced Sapphire's cards ever since the RX 390X days; it's historically been the company's highest-tier, enthusiast-focused graphics cards on air cooling. the ATOMIC series, on the other hand, is Sapphire's AIO-integrated lineup of graphics cards, which the company has kept dormant since way back in 2013, with the AMD Radeon HD 7990 - a beautiful piece of engineering featuring a pair of AMD's Tahiti XT2 cores - and featured 3 GB of GDDR5 memory mirrored for each of the GPU cores. The TA branding might also represent a new design from Sapphire, rather than a return to old lineups, but we'll have to wait for Sapphire's announcement proper to dispel any lingering doubts.



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Oh my god yes, i remember when they introduced the Toxic series back in mid 2013, it was so cool :clap:
I forgot about it all these years later, but man seeing this again sure takes me back.
It would be nice if they brought back the Vapor-X design aswell
 
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ATOMIC truly meant badass back in the day.
HD 4890 ATOMIC is one of the more iconic models
 
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6800 XT's are already going for PLN 6200 (almost €1400) at retail, so I no longer care about any new product announcements.
 
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I suspect this may make more sense with RX 7xxx series since they probably can't get enough Navi 21 chips in the first place. Currently, Sapphire have announced both Nitro+ and Pulse series, with the latter just starting to show up.
 
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These extra skus must help with the sitiuation and allow for some price relief for the other cards. I have to honor Canada Computers as though it is exceedingly difficult to get a card they are doing their best to uphold MSRP. The most expensive 6800XT is the Asus STRIX LC for $1699 or $1342 US.
 
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I really love oldschool Sapphire designs. Here is mine old HD 7790 Dual-X and 7770 Vapor-X.

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Newer Sapphire cards looks little bit boring and lost their uniqueness and identity

 
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Newer Sapphire cards looks little bit boring and lost their uniqueness and identity

I don't know man, the Vega 56 NITRO edition is 3,5 slot, all bling behemoth. For me the NITRO series in general has been the best card I've ever owned hands down.
 
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I don't know man, the Vega 56 NITRO edition is 3,5 slot, all bling behemoth. For me the NITRO series in general has been the best card I've ever owned hands down.
Vapor-x was the best designed GPU I have ever owned.
 
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Vapor-x was the best designed GPU I have ever owned.
Still way louder than modern designs (at least my 6850 Vapor-X wasn't quiet at all). And any modern card gets even quieter if you remove the shitshroud and install decent fans. Loads of room to improve on the AIB side, if you'd ask me.
 
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Really liked the Vapor-x but next card for me will be 6600xt or 6700xt Toxic if and when they become available at a reasonable price
 
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Still way louder than modern designs (at least my 6850 Vapor-X wasn't quiet at all). And any modern card gets even quieter if you remove the shitshroud and install decent fans. Loads of room to improve on the AIB side, if you'd ask me.
My 7950 Vapor X was the cat's meow for me. I never went past 58 C and the fans never spun past 50%. OC was painless on that card and actually influenced me to get water cooling once I got Vega.
 
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2-slot GPU and a... waterblock + single DIMM AIO? This seems more like an accident then a relaunch.
 
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Really liked the Vapor-x but next card for me will be 6600xt or 6700xt Toxic if and when they become available at a reasonable price
If they make them that would be as that design seems to be the most cost effective if you are even remotely interested in Water cooling but the cooler on RDNA2 cards (mine anyway) is so good that I have had a Waterblock from Alphacool sitting in my cart for 2 weeks now.
 
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I always think of the 290x Toxic

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Oh my god yes, i remember when they introduced the Toxic series back in mid 2013, it was so cool :clap:
I forgot about it all these years later, but man seeing this again sure takes me back.
It would be nice if they brought back the Vapor-X design aswell

Toxic and Atomic go back to 2008. Both premiered on the 3870.
 
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I really love oldschool Sapphire designs. Here is mine old HD 7790 Dual-X and 7770 Vapor-X.

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Newer Sapphire cards looks little bit boring and lost their uniqueness and identity


OMG, YES! The 7790 from Sapphire was my first GPU, and as such, has a special place in my heart :love:

After that one came the 280X (it was yellow, but wasn't a TOXIC edition) and my dad put the 7790 in his rig. I actually still have BOTH of those cards; the 280X is in the computer downstairs (if only because the mobo doesn't have display ports), so it's still chuggin' along. The 7790 is still in my dad's rig, but that PC hasn't been fired up in 3 years, ever since he passed away :(

After my 280X came the RX580 Nitro. I loved that card, even if its design was kind of boring. Fucking thing was a tank. Never had a single problem with it. I sold it a couple months ago because I've been using the GTX 1660 Super for a year now, give or take.

Sapphire is, and always will be, my go-to for AMD cards. :rockout:
 
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