Sapphire Toxic HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIe Review

Graphics Card from Sapphire using the name 'Toxic', Sapphire Toxic HD 6850 PCIE 1GB GDDR5 has accelerators clock and locally memory which is higher than AMD reference. It is running the accelerator at 820MHz instead of 775MHz and local memory at 2200MHz not 2000MHz. Unfortunately, it also needs more power: 2 ports 6 pin PCIExpress additional resources. Compared with Radeon HD 6850 standard that only need 1.

Hardware physically is large enough to need a 2 slot cooler. Cards design follows the reference, while the coolant is made in Sapphire, although similar with the reference. For output, there are 2 DVI, HDMI, and 2 Mini DisplayPort. This output option, also power need, similar with the Radeon HD 6870. Stream processor? It turns out 960, same as the Radeon HD 6850. DirectX 11, AMD Eyefi nity, also AMD HD3D technology -AMD's 3D view style are also supported.

The overall performance of this graphics card is good and certainly better than the standard version. As further overclock at 850MHz (accelerator) and 2400MHz (local memory), the score actually dropped. Looks like the clock of the Sapphire is the most good.

Test Result of Sapphire Toxic HD 6850 1GB GDDR5
3DMark06 1.1.0
1280 x 1024 60Hz 17388 3DMarks
1920 x 1080 60Hz 16663 3DMarks

3DMark Vantage 1.0.1
Performance 1280 x 1024 60Hz
3DMark Score P14009
GPU Score 13360
Custom 1920 x 1080 60Hz
GPU Score 9487

Crysis 1.2
1280 x 1024 DirectX 10 Very High 60Hz 45,77 fps
1920 x 1080 DirectX 10 Very High 60Hz 30,98 fps

World in Conflict 1.0
1280 x 1024 Very High 60Hz 61,33 fps
1920 x 1080 Very High 60Hz 51,67 fps

Oblivion 1.2
1280 x 1024 Custom 60Hz 67,27 fps
1920 x 1080 Custom 60Hz 61,62 fps

Specification
Manufacturer GPU : AMD
GPU : Barts
Accelerator : Radeon HD 6850
Local Memory : 1GB GDDR5
PCI-Express Iinterface : 2.1 x16
Integrated Outputs : 2 DVI, HDMI, 2 Mini DisplayPort
Power Supply Additional : 2 PCI-Express 6pin
Accelerator Clock : 820MHz
Shader Clock : 820MHz
Local Memory Clock : 2200MHz (4400MHz Effective)
Local Memory Line Width : 256bit
Stream Processors : 960
DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.1
Web Situe www.sapphiretech.com
2 Year Warranty
Price (may change) U.S. $ 245