Sapphire ATI Radeon HD6870 Toxic Graphics Card
The SAPPHIRE HD 6870 TOXIC Edition has the same internal architecture as the standard model, with 1120 stream processors and 56 texture processing units, but clock speeds are increased to 970MHz for the core and 1150Mhz (4.6 Gb/sec effective) for the memory giving users a considerable boost in performance.
Features
- Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.
ATI Eyefinity technology maximises your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision. For gamers this puts you right IN the game and for other applications it helps to increase productivity by maximising your visual workspace so that you can see more windows simultaneously. ATI Eyefinity technology is also ideal for multimedia applications as it allows you to keep several ‘palettes’ or ‘panels’ open over a larger workspace whist you edit your images or videos.
SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking !
Cutting edge manufacturing process allows for efficient, high performance parts which use less power than their predecessors.
Accelerate the most demanding applications with ATI Stream technology and do more with your PC. ATI Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of compute power locked up in your graphics processer on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone.
- ATI Avivo HD (DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray Playback)
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder(UVD)
- ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
Triple or Quadruple gaming power withATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology.ATI CrossFireX technology supports up
to four graphics cards to be used in a single system.
The latest PCI-Express 2.0 specification doubles data throughput from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps allowing you to exploit the full
performance potential of your graphics card.
- Black Diamond Choke & Full Solid Cap Design
Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent
pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more
reliable and save energy.
Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses
far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures
drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C,
the product life span only decreases by 10%.
Enjoy the most immersive experience possible with full support for High Definition Stereoscopic 3D, a technique that
presents 2D images (movies, games, photos) in a format that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth when using
compatible 3D displays / glasses / software.
Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI (Digital Visual Interface), this card is able to display ultra high resolutions
of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.
HDMI 1.4a builds on previous generations of HDMI connectivity with support for Deep Color, 7.1 High Bitrate Audio, and
3D Stereoscopic support, ensuring the highest quality Blu-ray and video experience possible from your PC.
Enjoy the benefits of the latest generation display interface, DisplayPort. With the ultra high HD resolution of 2560 x
1600 the graphics card ensures that you are able to support the latest generation of LCD monitors.
Supports Digital monitors up to 1920x1200 resolution.
Doubling the effective bandwidth of previous DisplayPort implementations, DisplayPort 1.2 now includes support for
Multi-Stream, allowing you to drive up to four separate monitors from a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector (requires DP1.2
monitors or Multi-Stream compatible hub), Stereoscopic 3D monitor support and adds support for high quality, lossless,
7.1 channel audio formats.
Get intense gaming performance and unrivalled image quality with stunning 3D visual effects, realistic lighting and lifelike
imagery with SAPPHIRE graphics cards supporting DirectX®11. New features in DirectX®11 such as Hardware
Tesselation, HDR Texture Compression, Multi-threading support and DirectCompute bring lifelike gaming and an
experience never possible on a PC before.
Supports the latest OpenGL API (Application Programming Interface) to accelerate performance of applications outside
of DirectX®, i.e. Adobe Autodesk 2D/3D graphic design.
*OpenGL 3.2 Driver support scheduled for release in 2010
Supports the latest Shader Model 5.0 feature set including VTF (Vertex Texture Fetch) which is a key feature used
extensively in many of the games that ship today. Without support for this feature the game will fall back to a lesser
shader path resulting in the loss of cool, lifelike effects made possible by Shader Model 5.0
- ATI Catalyst Control Center™
The ATI Catalyst Control Center™ software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual
quality of your SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon™ based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC.
- Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support
Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high
definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies. (Requires a DVI to HDMI dongle on some models, an HD
capable monitor and a Blu-ray drive)
Dynamically manage power efficiency and take control of your performance with AMD’s revolutionary ATI PowerPlay TM
power management technology delivering high performance features when needed and conserving power when the
demand on the graphics processor is low. This seemless technology dramatically reduces the overall power consumption
allowing for break-through energy efficiency.
- 4th Generation TeraScale Engine
Massive arrays of on-chip compute units offer the latest in graphics functionality and performance.
- AMD Advanced Parallel Processing technology
Accelerate the most demanding applications by offloading parallel data compute tasks from the CPU to GPU, dividing
the tasks as evenly as possible for improved system performance and reliability.
Offers an incredible choice of the latest display connectivity options natively on the board, including dual-link DVI-I,
DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a along with adapters to ensure compatibility with your legacy analogue VGA monitor.
- Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 3 (UVD 3)
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p (and beyond !) display resolution. Enjoy a feature rich
video experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder 3 (UVD 3), offloading the bulk of the video decoding tasks from
the CPU to the GPU allowing for a cooler, quieter and more balanced system.
- Enhanced Internet Browser Applications
Not just for video and games, the power of your GPU can now accelerate the latest versions of some Internet browsers
(IE9/Mozzilla FireFox) utilising Direct 2D rendering for a faster and more responsive browsing experience including high
quality image rendering and media playback.
Take advantage of improved picture and media editing capabilities in Office 2010 as well as edit and share your content
in real time.
See more, and get more done. Enhanced productivity with accelerated GPU processing for Office applications.
WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) Certified drivers and logos are available for all SAPPHIRE HD2000, HD3000,
HD4000 and HD5000 series cards ensuring compatibility and reliability with Microsoft Windows 7.