SAPPHIRE

August 25th, 2011

SAPPHIRE Announces Radeon HD 6850 Vapor-X Edition

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced a new high performance model in its extensive series of graphics cards – the HD 6850 Vapor-X Edition with SAPPHIRE exclusive Vapor-X cooler. The SAPPHIRE HD 6850 Vapor-X Edition has the same internal architecture as the standard model, with 960 stream processors and 48 texture processing units, but clock speeds [...]

August 4th, 2011

Sapphire Launches Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC Edition, Fastest HD 6950 Yet

SAPPHIRE Technology – the world leading supplier of graphics solutions, mainboards and other PC products – has just announced the SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition, the fastest production card in its class. The SAPPHIRE HD 6950 TOXIC Edition ships with clock speeds of 880MHz for the core and 1300Mhz (5.2 Gb/sec effective) for the memory [...]

April 24th, 2011

HD 6870 Roundup: Diamond, PowerColor, MSI, Sapphire & XFX

With high end and lower tiered cards being released to complete AMD’s full 6000-series lineup, many forget that the most popular market segment lies within the $175 and $225 price brackets.  Here, cards like the GTX 560 Ti and HD 6950 1GB reign supreme but the HD 6870 with its long list of pre overclocked [...]

March 8th, 2011

Sapphire Pure Black X58 LGA1366 Motherboard Review

Around here, we usually see motherboards from the like of ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI.  Even EVGA makes an appearance every now and then but there is one other company which is trying to break into this market once again:  Sapphire.  With their new Pure Black X58, they hope to once again make an entry into [...]

November 4th, 2010

Sapphire Launches TriXX Overclocking Tool

Jumping on board with the likes of EVGA’s Precision, MSI’s Afterburner, and other manufacturer branded overclocking tools, Sapphire is offering its very own customer tuning tool for users looking to get the most out of their Sapphire video card. TriXX is the program now being offered to Sapphire  AMD Radeon graphics cards owners and offers [...]

April 30th, 2010

Sapphire Launches HD5550 Passive Video Card

Although high powered graphics are usually on the forefront of technology, the mainstream market and HTPC segment is always one to watch. Latest from Sapphire is their HD5550 series. Being a passively cooled solution silent running is first and foremost in this cards feature set. Which should be ideal for the HTPC users or those [...]

March 23rd, 2010

Sapphire Introduces 2GB HD 5850 Toxic Graphics Card

SAPPHIRE Technology today announced a new version of its successful HD SAPPHIRE HD 5850 TOXIC Edition with a larger frame buffer size of 2GB. The SAPPHIRE HD 5850 TOXIC series are SAPPHIRE original designs based on the latest 40nm graphics architecture from the ATI division of AMD. They feature 1440 stream processors and 72 texture [...]

March 2nd, 2010

Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 4GB OC – A Graphics Monster

With the launch of NVIDIA’s GF100 series cards drawing near, ATI really doesn’t have anything to quell the hype of the release, or do they? At CeBIT this morning, HEXUS.net managed to catch a quick glimpse of a graphics monstrosity by Sapphire, a 4GB 5970 OC.  The card features more than just doubled ram however; [...]

February 12th, 2010

Sapphire Gives Radeon HD 5850 a Toxic Makeover

With the 5750, 5770 and 5870 all offered as factory overclocked Vapor-X models, the HD 5850 was likely feeling a bit left out, so Sapphire has given it, its own update. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic is built on a classy blue PCB, featuring an aftermarket cooling solution that does away with the typical [...]

January 14th, 2010

AMD ATI HD 5670 Launch – Complete Manufacturer Release Listings

This morning we have another exciting launch from ATI, this time of a sub $100 video card that brings DirectX11 and ATI’s Eyefinity technology to the masses for an incredibly reasonable price. While the Radeon HD 5670 will surely not be the last of the HD 5000 series to be released – and likely not [...]