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At the moment we're going through these little phases with video cards; we get a couple in and then it dies down for a few weeks. Then a few more come in and it dies down a little bit again. The latest card to slide into the lab here comes from Sapphire and is an expansion of the Vapor-X series.
It's been a bit of an AMD love fest lately when it's come to VGA with a lot of HD 6000 series making their way through the doors. It's not all that uncommon, though, as we tend to see a few months after launch companies start to release their different variations of the models that we begin to know and love.
Over the past few days there have been some issues with the HD 6850 and the 1120 Shader dilemma. The good news is that there’s no such problem with the HD 6870 and today we’ll be checking out the overclocking potential of the new top mid-range GPU from AMD, the HD 6870.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 is a video card targeted at the mid-range market with a price point below $200. As such, it stands to reason that the 6870 should perform as an excellent upgrade for anyone looking to beef up a rig that has begun to show its age. With this in mind, the test system used for the 6870 will be something a typical user could expect to have built four to five years ago.
We're at that calm before the storm where video card releases become few and far between. We're at the point where companies release slightly rehashed versions of cards we already know and love. We're at the point where companies are sending out press releases about technology they've already had on the market for ages. That's where the video card market is at and it's clear with the last few video cards we've looked at, including the one we're looking at today in the Sapphire HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition OC. The good news is, though, that the calm before the storm means two things.
When I first looked at the HD 5770 FleX I was impressed that Sapphire had taken the time to acknowledge one of the biggest issues with Eyefinity and fix it. The issue we speak of is the need to have a DisplayPort monitor to make use of the technology. For some it's not an issue, especially if you're only on one monitor and you're going to buy three new ones for your setup. If you're not, though, and you already have a couple of monitors, the need for a DP enabled one is a pain.
Sapphire has put together another great graphics card that does sit in a niche market, but with a very good agenda. This card is geared to provide Eyefinity to the masses and does so with enough performance to actually make a multi-display setup worthwhile to build.
Nach unserem Test der Radeon HD 6850 Toxic aus dem Hause Sapphire, freuen wir uns darauf ihre große Schwester, die Radeon HD 6870 Toxic, bei uns auf Radeon3D.org auf Herz und Nieren testen zu können. Sapphires Radeon-Grafikkarten mit dem Kürzel "Toxic" stehen schon seit je her für besondere 3D-Beschleuniger. Denn mit einem eigens designten PCB, einer aufwendigeren und besonders Ohren schonenden Kühlung gepaart mit sehr guten Overclocking-Eigenschaften konnten diese Karten bisher in der Regel auf einen echten Mehrwert gegenüber den Standardmodellen bieten ohne gleich den Geldbeute des Käufers übermäßig zu strapazieren. In diesem Artikel finden wir heraus, ob Sapphire auch mit der Radeon HD 6870 der "Toxic"-Serie diese weiße Weste anbehalten kann.
One of the more recent enhanced 6870 versions to hit the market is Sapphires Vapor-X model. It features a custom PCB and enhanced cooler to make it stand out from the crowd and that, combined with Sapphires TriXX utility for overclocking and voltage increases means we have a very interesting product on our test bench today.
„Wer eine Grafikkarte um die 200,- Euro sucht, wird um die Radeon HD 6950 nicht herum kommen. Dieses Modell wurde erstmals Dezember 2010 vorgestellt, was mittlerweile mehr als ein halbes Jahr her ist. Trotzdem hat diese Karte nicht an Glanz verloren und ist in der genannten Preisklasse sehr beliebt. Was sich seit der Veröffentlichung verändert haben, sind die verfügbaren Kühler-Modelle, die von den verschiedensten Herstellern angeboten werden. So auch von Sapphire, die neben dem Referenz-Kühler auch eine "FleX" und "Dual Fan Edition" mit Dual Lüfter anbieten. Diese beiden Grafikkarten-Modelle möchten wir euch in einem Kurztest näher vorstellen.“
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