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Sapphire shows Toxic HD 4870

by on16 September 2008

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Vapor-X is back

Sapphire's latest addition to the Toxic lineup of graphics cards has been pixellized. The new RV770 powered Toxic card will be using a Vapor-X cooler and will, of course, be factory overclocked.

The new card works at 780MHz for the GPU and comes with 512MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4,000MHz (quad data rate). Just for comparison, the reference card works at 750MHz for the GPU and 3,600MHz for the GDDR5 memory.

The rest of the specs for the new card are the same as every other HD 4870 card on the market, so it comes with 800 Stream processors, DirectX 10.1, CrossFireX and PCI-Express 2.0 support.
 
The Vapor-X cooling is back on this one, and it looks that it will have no trouble in cooling the 55nm RV770 GPU and the rest of the card. The Vapor-X cooling is based on the Vapor chamber technology, and it has done a great job on previous Sapphire cards. It uses a single, centered-placed thermal-controlled fan, which is used to cool down the heatsink with three copper heatpipes.

As is always the case with Sapphire, there is still no word on pricing or availability. We will try and keep an eye out for this one and report back as it hits e-tail/retail. All we have to do now is hope that the Atomic versions of the HD 4800-series are coming soon.
 
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Last modified on 17 September 2008
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