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Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 5, 2014 Featured Announcement, Graphics

We wouldn't recommend you overclock a passively cooled card, as the tolerances can often be close to borderline, especially if you are installing into a chassis with poor airflow. For the purposes of this review however we used the AMD Catalyst Control center to overclock the Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate today.
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Considering the passive nature of the hardware, we managed to achieve a decent 6.3% overclock on the core before artifacting would occur. Memory could be overclocked to the maximum range of the Catalyst Control Center slider – hitting 1,250mhz (5Gbps effective).
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The additional overclock helps improve the graphics score in this benchmark to 3,282 points.

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3 comments

  1. Harris
    March 5, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    no single slot? well that sucks… HTPC users need single slot cards.

  2. Ben
    March 5, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    Harris, AMD cards output a lot of heat, building this into a single cooler design would be not feasible, based on the temperature results Kitguru recorded.

    AMD need the Maxwell architecture for this. I am surprised Nvidia haven’t released a single slot passively cooled MAXWELL based card, but I am sure it is coming soon.

  3. Alan
    March 10, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    Including the previous Sapphire Ultimate (HD 7750) in the test comparisons would have be very helpful. Next time?

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