Today, February 18th 2010, Sapphire introduces two new graphics processor cards based on AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5850. With custom cooling and board solutions, Sapphire is releasing the HD 5850 Vapor-X and HD 5850 TOXIC edition cards, and today we'll be looking at the latter.

The Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC and Sapphire HD 5850 Vapor-X models are both original designs by Sapphire, targeting the enthusiast user. Both models are shipping pre-overclocked, on both core and memory, with high efficiency low noise coolers.

Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 5850 Toxic

Product Highlights

• $319 MSRP
• 765MHz 40nm Cypress core
• 2.1Bn Transistors
• 72 SIMD / 1440 STREAM Processors
• 72 Texture Units / 32 ROPs

• 1GB GDDR5 @ 1125MHz (4.5Gbps)

• 30W idle / 160W load

• 2.1 GFLOPs Compute Performance

Join us as we investigate the special new features of the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC edition, and see how it compares to reference ATI Radeon HD 5850 design.