Sapphire HD6850 Toxic

Only a few weeks ago AMD introduced their 6800 series cards featuring both the 6850 and 6870. We covered the 6870 with both Single and Dual card reviews. It didn’t take long to see non-reference designs coming from Sapphire with their Toxic HD6850 being announced today. We have had the pleasure of putting the card through its paces to see how it compares to the 6870 in both price and performance. With the GPU being clocked at 820MHz over the stock 775MHz and a memory frequency bump of 400MHz, from 4000Mhz to 4400MHz it should perform well. But with a few less shaders, compaired to the HD6870, will it hold its own? How will it compaire to Nvidia's offerings?
Features

1. Premium 4 Phase Digital Power Design
2. 2 x 6 pin PCI Power connector, supply power up to 225 Watt.
3. Microsoft ·DirectX 11 Support
4. ATI Eyefinity Technology,
5. AMD HD3D Technology
6. AMD Advanced Parallel Processing Technology
7. Microsoft Windows 7 Support
8. 40nm Process Technology
9. 3^rd Generation TeraScale Engine
10. PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
11. Advanced 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
12. HDMI 1.4a support with Deep Color,· 7.1 High Bitrate Audio and 3D Stereoscopic support
13. On chip HDCP Support
14. ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance.
15. Enhanced Unified Video Decoder(UVD 3)
16. Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks
17. Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio TM Support

GPU acceleration support for Microsoft Office 2010 and compatible Internet Browsers.

Specifications

SKU	11180-03
ASIC	Radeon HD 6850
Bus Interface	PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.1)
Memory	1024MB / 256-bit GDDR5
Clock Speed	820MHz Eclk / Effective 4400 MHz Mclk
Cooling System	Dual Slot Fan Cooler, Blower Design
Bracket	Full Height
Display Support	DL-DVI-I SL-DVI-D Mini Display Port x 2 HDMI VGA (Via included adaptor)
HDCP	Yes
Crossfire Support	Native Hardware Crossfire
External Power	PCIe Graphic External 2 x 6 pin
Accessories	Crossfire Interconnect Cable x 1 DVI to VGA Adaptor x 1 6 PIN to 4 PIN Power Cable· x 2 Mini DP to DP Adapter x 1 HDMI 1.4a 1.8 meter cable x 1
Software	Driver CD SAPPHIRE TriXX OC Utility*
Maximum Display Resolution	D-Dub(VGA): 2048 x 1536 @85 Hz. DL-DVI-I: 2560 x 1600@60Hz SL-DVI-D: 1920x1200@60Hz HDMI 1.4a: 1080p Display Port: 2560 x 1600@60Hz Maximum Display Support: 4 Displays( 4 x1920x1200 in SLS mode)

System Requirements
-····· PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
-····· 400 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended
-····· Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
-····· Minimum 1GB of system memory
-····· Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
-····· DVD playback requires DVD drive
-····· Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive
-····· For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 6850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required


Operating System Support

Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit)
Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit)
Windows Media Center Edition 2005
Windows 7


from : lanoc.org