Test Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X
Marque
Sapphire
Modèle
Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X
Site
legitreviews.com
Date
3.11.2009
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Today we are taking a look at our second retail ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, as we looked at the ASUS EAH5870 Voltage Tweak a few weeks ago. The card that we have for you today is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X which is, to our knowledge, the first ATI Radeon HD 5870 series graphics card to deviate from the reference design when it comes to the GPU cooler, and on top of that it comes overclocked right out of the box. According to Sapphire this graphics card will feature up to a 10% boost in performance over a standard Radeon HD 5870, while at the same time being 14 dBA quieter and much cooler! You might expect to pay a pretty penny for features like this, but the retail price on the card is $399.99. So, for an extra $10 over the price of a standard card you get a better cooler and improved performance! This is a little different than previous Vapor-X graphics cards as none of those were factory overclocked. Sapphire hinted that a Toxic or Atomic card might be coming out later, but we don't expect that to happen until production yields of 40nm GPUs get better over at TSMC as it is really hard to find any Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards on the market today.



