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Sapphire Launches Radeon HD 5970 4GB TOXIC Graphics Card-world's fastest

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Leading graphics supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology, has begun sampling the world's fastest graphics card, the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 4G TOXIC Edition. Previewed at CeBit 2010, the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 4G TOXIC Edition has 4GB of fifth generation GDDR5 memory, a total of 3200 stream processors and 160 texture units and runs with world leading clock speeds of 900MHz core and 1200MHz for memory (4.8GHz effective). This is significantly faster than the standard model, and makes the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 4GB TOXIC Edition not only the fastest card in its class, but the fastest in the world.

With twice the computing power of the highly acclaimed SAPPHIRE HD 5870 Series, this new HD 5970 model shares all the exciting features of the HD 5000 family - including support for the DirectCompute 11 instruction set of Microsoft DirectX 11, hardware tessellation and multi threaded communication with the system CPU. It also enables the acceleration of applications supported by ATI Stream, and the ability to display across three monitors simultaneously with ATI Eyefinity. All of this comes with a modest active power consumption and ATI Powerplay Dynamic Power Management to achieve super-low power consumption in 2D and idle modes.

Specification
Output 2 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x Mini-DisplayPort
GPU 900 MHz Core Clock
0 nm Process Technology
3200 x Stream Processors
Memory 4096 MB Size
512(2x256) -bit GDDR5
4800 MHz Effective

Dimension 310x118x61 mm Size.


http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/media/?psn=0004&articleID=2785

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=0001&pid=340


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Beast of a card. Looking at the crossfire bridge i'm guessing they expect people to trifire this with a reference 5870 as that tripple slot cooler would make two of these pretty difficult to accomodate.
 
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Meh, too late to the game, you'd have to have more money than sense to get one, with a 6870(probably) due Sept/Oct.

Assuming you can get one of these in say, a month, you'd have 3-4 months before it will basically be replaced though not as big a jump as previous generations in performance so it won't be matched by a single 6870 most likely.

Still, 2x 5850's makes so much more sense for now, this won't be anywhere near worth the price premium in value and its performance won't be unmatchable, the performance is that of a 5970 overclocked to 900Mhz, which is easily doable, and a pair of 5850's at 950Mhz should match it easily, though you'd have to see how far it overclocks, likely not that far. Call it 50% higher cost for a 5-10% bump in performance over 5850's xfired, its a nice card, and still makes the 480gtx look bad, massively faster, marginally more power usage, less power at idle and probably fine on temps if you knock the fan speed down a load.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Is 4GB necessary? even with eyefinity?
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without eyefinity, even 2gb is pointless. When using EF with AA though you will notice a difference.

What I want to know is due to the rendering methods which crossfire use, is the 4gb actually going to be used "properly".

What I mean is when its 2xGPU on the same card, I'm guessing its 2gb per GPU, not 4gb in total. Due to the rendering methods, do the same textures have to be stored twice due to 2 sets of ram on the board of is it 4gb unified ram?

If it was the later, the frame buffer on it would need to be enormous :|
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Is 4GB necessary? even with eyefinity?
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If you want to use higher amounts of AA with eyefinity then yup.
If the price is good on this card then i'd buy one.
One thing these sites have to do is start benchmarking at eyefinity resolutions or its kind of pointless:(
 
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Spazzfish said:
If you want to use higher amounts of AA with eyefinity then yup.
If the price is good on this card then i'd buy one.
One thing these sites have to do is start benchmarking at eyefinity resolutions or its kind of pointless:(
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It would be slower than the normal 2gb version at pre eyefinity resolutions as well due to the size of the frame buffer
 
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