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The Sapphire HD6870 Toxic Edition arrives in a shiny, reflective box with a rendered ‘conjurer' taking centerstage. The box lists all the main specifications on the front.
There is no free game with this bundle, however the contents are comprehensive. It contains several power converter cables, vga adapter, a mini-displayport to displayport converter cable, Crossfire Connector, Software disc, Sapphire sticker and literature on the product as well as how to enter the Sapphire ‘Select Club'. We also like the inclusion of a quality 1.8 meter HDMI cable, as this will prove exceptionally useful to a wide audience.
The Sapphire HD6870 Toxic Edition ships with a custom Vapor-X cooler on an attractive blue PCB.
The fan design is also different when compared against the reference card. We have seen a similar fan design on the Sapphire HD6850, but it only had 9 blades – this card has 11 angular blades for improved airflow. The air is also forced across the cooler below in a wider array.
The Toxic HD6870 supports 2x mini DP (1.2), HDMI 1.4a, and 2 x DL-DVI and SL-DVI connectors. It requires two six pin power connectors for operation.
As would be expected, the cooler underneath is an excellent design. With a dual series of fat heatpipes running parallel along two sets of aluminum fins.
Sapphire have upgraded the PCB and we will look later in the review at overclocking the card with voltage adjustments.
An overview of the card, as seen from GPUz. Core is overclocked to 970mhz and GDDR5 memory at 1150mhz (4600mhz effective) across a 256 bit memory interface.
That is one seriously awesome mid range board. Sapphire do it again !
Great work man, covered all the bases. amazing temps, my 5770 runs hotter.
This is a damn good indication of why sapphire are still the leaders for AMD products.
My friend just read this review and wants the card. waiting patiently in the UK for it now 😉
excellent, the price is very good, although the 6950 isn’t much more really…..
That fan is a very unusual design, is it tapered at the edges? most fans at this size have 9 blades. very clever.
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.
Nice one, any ideas when the USA gets this baby?
Where can you get the trixx tool? I dont see it online anywhere. does it work with any card?
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.
I dont like AMD hardware, but the temperatures on this card are incredible, very impressive engineering from Sapphire.
fucking hell, thats a crazy core clock speed.
great review again. do you ever sleep?
Excellent, would like to see this head to head with 560.
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.
@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 ?
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$