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Sapphire HD5850 Toxic 1GB Video Card Review

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All game settings were set to maximum and we used 8x anti aliasing for the results with Resident Evil 5.

The results show that the overclocked Toxic card puts in a great showing even when compared with the much more expensive HD5870 reference card.

The Toxic card handles this game with ease never dropping the frame rate under 40 fps at any times. The reference card however loses around 6 frames per second under the same conditions.

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28 comments

  1. William Crawford

    Bloody Nora batman, thats one scary overclock ! I snagged those apps, thanks for the heads up

  2. I love Sapphires modded cards, those coolers rock my world. Wouldnt it be cool if AMD actually released these from now on with all their new mid/high end ranges?

  3. Absolutely no chance they would be on reference cards, they cost too much. I like the thinking though. Hey with the Intel story that was on here a few days ago and the new reference coolers they are looking at, maybe the whole industry is shifting views on this?

  4. Hats off to Sapphire again,was going to buy this but I held off for a bit even though I read a few good reviews about it. This is a wicked board. £230!! just ordered one

  5. £230 is a wicked price. the ordinary card is £240 in a local store here.

  6. Good price, would like to see CF figures for these. £460 for two of them, would be a good head to head against a GTX480 🙂

  7. I think the 480 GTX would get its ass handed to it, then some, but would be interesting for sho.

  8. I think the 5770 is better value though, ive seen some for £120 online, two of them would beat one of these.

  9. Anyone seen a good price for one of these in Canada?

  10. £349.99 on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102881&cm_re=hd5850_toxic-_-14-102-881-_-Product

  11. Canada? anyone know? best online place to buy?

  12. Great review, thanks KG

  13. Loved the review, thanks Gurus

  14. Sapphire are great, wish more makers would use vapor x style cooling.

  15. XFX are doing one which I think is sourced from the same company. check out this review. http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/xfx-hd5870-black-edition-review/

  16. Julia Francisco

    Read this review last night and didnt have time to comment. Its a great product as many reviews have already testifed to. Was interesting personally to see the drain figures at the wall.

  17. not much stock available where I live. unfortunately as a bud of mine wants it.