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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 TOXIC 6GB
AMD is hitting back at NVIDIA in the high-end graphics-card stakes. The green team, NVIDIA, stole a march with the release of the GeForce GTX 680 in March and then followed it up, surprisingly so, with the dual-GPU GTX 690 in May. AMD has since cleaved Radeon HD 7970 pricing down to £320 and also introduced the GHz Edition of the ‘Tahiti-based’ GPU.
Sapphire is on a mission to wring out every last drop of performance from the Tahiti graphics architecture through the release of its best-ever GPU, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz TOXIC 6GB. Yup, the name’s quite a mouthful and the card is pregnant with benchmark-bustin’ promise.
You’ll know the standard HD 7970 GHz Edition GPU ships with a core speed of 1,000MHz and memory at an effective 6,000MHz. AMD’s PowerTune with Boost feature adds an extra 50MHz to the core clock under most conditions. Sapphire reckons the improved yields on HD 7970 GPUs can be fully realised when subject to monstrous cooling, so let’s present the TOXIC.
The Hong Kong outfit generally has four sub-divisions for high-end cards, comprising of standard, OC, Vapor-X, and TOXIC. This Big Beastie TOXIC is overt and ostentatious. The PCB is 270mm (10.5in) long, or the same size as a regular Radeon HD 7970, but the cooler makes it look more like a monster card.
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Good Radeon videocard!
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