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There certainly haven't been many exciting video cards released in the last couple of months, but today we are looking at the new Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition 2GB which is supplied in a pre-overclocked state with a custom design. Is this an ideal upgrade for your next system?
Sapphire's Toxic Edition cards have always had a special place in the enthusiast market, thanks to the proprietary design, custom cooling solutions, clock increases and noise reducing tweaks applied at the factory.
The Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition gets a huge clock increase when compared to the reference card. The core clock is ramped to 880mhz and the memory speeds are increased to 1300mhz (5.2Gbps effective). Additionally, they have doubled the GDDR5 memory count to 2GB.
| Product | Sapphire HD6950 Toxic Edition |
AMD HD6950
|
| Core Clock speed |
880mhz
|
800mhz
|
| Primitive Rate |
2 prim/clk
|
2 prim/clk
|
| Shader Architecture |
VLIW4
|
VLIW4
|
| Stream Processors |
22 SIMD/1408 ALU
|
22 SIMD/1408 ALU
|
| Texture Units | 88 | 88 |
| ROPs/Z-Stencil | 32/128 | 32/128 |
| Frame Buffer | 2GB GDDR5 | 1GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Width/Speed | 256bit, 5.2 Gbps | 256bit, 5.0 Gbps |
| Power Connectors | 8 pin & 6 pin | 6 pin & 6 pin |
| Display Outputs | 2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI | 2xDVI + 2x mDP + HDMI |
