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There certainly haven't been many exciting video cards released in the last couple of months, but today we are looking at the new Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition 2GB which is supplied in a pre-overclocked state with a custom design. Is this an ideal upgrade for your next system?
Sapphire's Toxic Edition cards have always had a special place in the enthusiast market, thanks to the proprietary design, custom cooling solutions, clock increases and noise reducing tweaks applied at the factory.
The Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition gets a huge clock increase when compared to the reference card. The core clock is ramped to 880mhz and the memory speeds are increased to 1300mhz (5.2Gbps effective). Additionally, they have doubled the GDDR5 memory count to 2GB.
| Product | Sapphire HD6950 Toxic Edition |
AMD HD6950
|
| Core Clock speed |
880mhz
|
800mhz
|
| Primitive Rate |
2 prim/clk
|
2 prim/clk
|
| Shader Architecture |
VLIW4
|
VLIW4
|
| Stream Processors |
22 SIMD/1408 ALU
|
22 SIMD/1408 ALU
|
| Texture Units | 88 | 88 |
| ROPs/Z-Stencil | 32/128 | 32/128 |
| Frame Buffer | 2GB GDDR5 | 1GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Width/Speed | 256bit, 5.2 Gbps | 256bit, 5.0 Gbps |
| Power Connectors | 8 pin & 6 pin | 6 pin & 6 pin |
| Display Outputs | 2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI | 2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI |
Another great card. really enjoying my 5830 xtreme.
Thanks, looks like another good product. so price will be £220 ish? is that the ballpark? I notice sapphire do a dual fan 6950, but its not overclocked and probably cant be unlocked either.
excellent, I need to get dirt 3 cause i need a new game
2GB is nice. I still play GTA4 and that helps. I like maxing everything
Id like to see if two of these would be as good as a HD6990.
you ever hear of the return key?
Good card, but im holding fire until the end of the year, until the refreshed cards come out.
PC market is dead anyway, nothing happening within it 🙁 games all suck lately
Whats up with the box? did they cut the dual fan cooler out at the last minute?
so many of these cards out now its hard to keep track. I think ill wait until the 7 series before upgrading, my old 4 series still manages to play most of the games on my 17 inch screen. Best waiting for the new mid range boards whenever they are out.
This card seems the ultimate 6000 series bang for buck card, runs cool/silent, low power requirements and can be tweaked to outperform the 6970 by a large margin. I need this card sooner then later please!