Sapphire at Cebit his Radeon HD 7xxx series will be shown. The most striking figure in that line-up was the Toxic version of a Radeon HD 7970 card, with 6GB of memory was fitted. The company also showed a processor fan assembly.
The new flagship of Sapphire is still in development, but the Toxic version of the Radeon HD 7970, which the company showed, was already in a trial. The card has 6GB of video memory, which is in practice very little performance improvements it brings. The overclock to 1100MHz which Sapphire ‘out-of-the-box’ delivers on the gpu the performance is boosting. The video card get a dual bios and is around seven hundred dollars is going to cost you. A VaporX version would be in the making.
Sapphire also showed his other video cards with AMD’s latest gpu’s on board. An attractive card for silent systems is the 7750 video card. Sapphire gave this a good, but gentle, passive cooler. The card is at default speeds clocked. The 7850 card with active cooler is not; the gpu tap on the 920 instead of 860MHz. Also the 7870, there is, in addition to a standard version, an overclocked version, with 6mm – and 8mm-heatpipes and cooled. The cores thereof, a tap is not at 1GHz, but at 1050MHz. The 7970 is, in addition to the 6GB model, also in a 3GB version with a new cooler available. The overclocked version runs at 925MHz, with a memory to 1450MHz tap.
A little surprise at Sapphire was the processor fan assembly to which the company works. The cooler makes just as the heat sinks on the video cards to use VaporX technology; a vertical vapor chamber performs, helped by traditional heat pipes, heat away. The design of Cooler Masters TPC-812 thinking; the cooling tower is, however, by two fans in push/pull configuration flanked. Sapphire wants the cooler around april or may for about 80 euro offer.
