Sapphire Releases World's Fastest HD 6950

[siopao1984]

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Sapphire Releases World's Fastest HD 6950 by VR-Zone.com

Sapphire has released the HD 6950 TOXIC Edition, which at 880MHz core clock is supposedly the fastest factory overclocked HD 6950 in the world.

Sapphire has released the HD 6950 TOXIC Edition, which it claims to be the world's fastest HD 6950. As far as we can tell, this claim is true at the moment.

The core clock on this card has been pushed all the way to 880MHz, which is on par with reference HD 6970 speed. Memory clock is a decent, if not outstanding, 1300MHz.



The HD 6950 TOXIC Edition's heatsink looks rather similar to the reference AMD design, which also uses a vapor chamber and a blower fan.

Sapphire has also retained the dual BIOS feature, which is good news for BIOS modders. This feature was implemented in the reference design but taken out by some other vendors, presumably to cut costs. Sapphire also includes a custom overclocking utility.



View the original press release below:

SAPPHIRE TOXIC model is fastest HD 6950 yet!

SAPPHIRE Technology - the world leading supplier of graphics solutions, mainboards and other PC products - has just announced the SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition, the fastest production card in its class. The SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition ships with clock speeds of 880MHz for the core and 1300Mhz (5.2 Gb/sec effective) for the memory making it the fastest production HD 6950 on the market. This has been achieved by building the card on a high specification PCB with digital VRMs for excellent power regulation and 8 + 6 pin power connectors. It has a high performance cooler featuring a Vapor Chamber, blower fan and a new perforated backplate to increase airflow out of the system case. Like the standard HD 6950, the SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition boasts true DX 11 capability and the powerful configuration of 1408 stream processors and 88 texture processing units. A Dual BIOS feature allows enthusiasts to experiment with alternative BIOS profiles and settings. Performance can be further enhanced with SAPPHIRE TriXX - the company's dedicated overclocking tool which allows memory and core clock speeds and voltages to be modified and monitored and is available free to download.

With its two DVI, one HDMI and two mini-DisplayPort outputs, the SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition supports a wide range of monitor configurations, including AMD Eyefinity with up to four screens. The SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition has the latest Gen3 on-board hardware UVD (Unified Video decoder), considerably reducing CPU load and delivering smooth decoding of Blu-ray(tm) and other video content for both VC-1 and H.264 codecs, as well as Mpeg files. The UVD can decode two 1080p HD video streams simultaneously and display HD video in high quality with Windows Aero mode enabled. The card has HDMI 1.4a which also supports Stereoscopic 3D output. The SAPPHIRE HD 6950 family is supported by AMD's DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver which delivers support for all of the key DirectX 11 level features required for new gaming experiences and acceleration of the latest generation of browsers, transcoding and other high performance applications (AMD APP acceleration). For more details please visit www.sapphiretech.com

[thermaltake]

wow.....taasa na boost up,

[nekkabhabes]

ahhhh okey so GEN3 huh.. so this VC might be a kick ass if OC'ed ... again. walahop!

[wikki]

reference lagi gihapon ang cooler, naa nay actual benchmark ani with temp readings?

[Sempron Guy]

^don't let the shroud fool you hehe

[wikki]

fanboy reply ra kaayo, the shroud limits the size of the heatsink inside and given nga reference ra gihapon gyud na and clocked so high while the reference temps are already high... maypa mu palit nalang og reference model and kamo nalay OC, ang extra money to be used for aftermarket coolers or watercooling.

[Sempron Guy]

you don't have any idea what you're talking about, use google, seach Sapphire's Toxic line-up. Reference doesn't only pertains to the look of the shroud. But the pcb ang cooler as well.

[wikki]

Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition 2GB Review | KitGuru

basically changed the pcb color and some tweaks on the shroud design. That makes the card cooler? yeah right, the thing runs hot and the box label is all wrong to begin with (dual fan cooling?). The only advantage for this card is the dual bios setup which means less chances for screwing up for those bios modders.

MSI HD 6950 Twin Frozr III 2 GB Review - Page 4/27 | techPowerUp
money not wasted on this one, walay pay labad sa ulo.

[Sempron Guy]

pointless discussion, moving on...

[wikki]

stating facts is now pointless and biting to every marketing strat manufacturers throw is acceptable? Practically speaking a difference between 100mhz in clock speed doesn't even do much to actual performance unless the benchmark game is from 10 years ago.

The thing is only 30mhz faster and probably a lot hotter in actual (local ambiet temps) than MSI TFIII which basically is everyhting a lot better than the sapphire one. If your gonna spend extra anyway spend it on something thats really good.