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Sapphire HD6870 Toxic Edition Review – the fastest HD6870 available?

Tom Clancy HAWX is set in the same universe as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter; as Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghost leader, is featured in a few missions of the missions. Plot elements are carried over from other Tom Clancy games such as the missile defense system found in Tom Clancy’s EndWar. G4′s interview with H.A.W.X’s lead designer Thomas Simon reveals that the game takes place in between Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Tom Clancy’s EndWar.

The player begins the game in 2014 as the player assumes the role of former U.S. Air Force pilot, David Crenshaw, who is part of an elite unit called H.A.W.X (“High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron”), provides fire-support missions for the Ghost team carrying out covert operations in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. However, shortly after the mission, the Air Force decides to deactivate the H.A.W.X squadron and its pilots, including Crenshaw, are recruited into the PMC Artemis Global Security.

We are testing : DX 10.1 with shadows high, sun shafts high, ambient occlusion (SSAO) very high. view distance high, forest high, environment high, texture quality high, HDR on, Engine heat on and DOF on.

A great rest of results for the Toxic card, yet again climbing to the top of the hardware list.

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17 comments

  1. That is one seriously awesome mid range board. Sapphire do it again !

  2. Great work man, covered all the bases. amazing temps, my 5770 runs hotter.

  3. This is a damn good indication of why sapphire are still the leaders for AMD products.

  4. My friend just read this review and wants the card. waiting patiently in the UK for it now 😉

  5. excellent, the price is very good, although the 6950 isn’t much more really…..

  6. That fan is a very unusual design, is it tapered at the edges? most fans at this size have 9 blades. very clever.

  7. Very nice indeed and im not sure what the guy earlier was smoking, the HD6950 is £240 in the UK, thats £30-35 more. quite significant in this sector.

  8. Nice one, any ideas when the USA gets this baby?

  9. Where can you get the trixx tool? I dont see it online anywhere. does it work with any card?

  10. Im impressed and thats hard to do now with the over saturation of cards on the market from so many companies. This stands out enough to get major sales for sapphire.

  11. I dont like AMD hardware, but the temperatures on this card are incredible, very impressive engineering from Sapphire.

  12. fucking hell, thats a crazy core clock speed.

  13. great review again. do you ever sleep?

  14. Excellent, would like to see this head to head with 560.

  15. I bought sapphire 6870 last year because I couldn’t wait for the toxic edition. The temp for furmark was 89C in just 1minute not to mention how loud the fan was. So I bought the AC TTP, now peak at 63C for 15mins, I’m very happy.

  16. @Ethan: Running cards around 90 is not always a problem, as we’ve seen from the GTX480. But it is always a pain when the cooling solution is screaming at you 🙁 Glad you found a better solution! Just out of interest, when you bought it, how much was the AC TTP ?

  17. I checked ur original HD6870 review, and it seems that despite being 70Mhz higher clocked, this TOXIC edition card consumes only 3W higher than reference card. This is nothing short of amazing.

    Considering you are getting higher than HD5870 performance by a 250$ card whereas only last year HD5870 was selling for 400$