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Monday, December 10, 2007
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Sapphire's new HD 3870 card is based on AMD's RV670 GPU which is made in a 55 nm process with 666 million transitors and support for DirectX 10.1 and PCI-Express 2.0. This card that is sold for around $249 is intended to be AMD's new offering for an upper midrange card - but can it beat the GeForce 8800 GT?
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The new Sapphire HD3870 Crossfire Cards arrived Technic3D. The new Graphic Cards with RV670 Chip from AMD better than the 2900 XT Crossfire Cards? Technic3D will see that in the following Review.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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Whether you want a sub $100 budget card or a sub $200 mid-range card, either one of these will be a good choice. Both cards performed well and with the new PCMark Vantage benchmark tests, you can see the Frames Per Second in the gaming GPU test. The XD2600XT doubled the FPS over the XD2400XT in gaming, but in the video playback and transcoding, results are almost identical. Each card comes with a DVI to HDMI adapter and this makes either card ideal for a home entertainment setup.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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The Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR3 supports high definition gaming on Windows Vista with DirectX 10 support, and allows the user to easily upgrade to a CrossFire configuration. The HD2600XT also brings a loaded HD feature-set with it offering support for ATI Avivo HD, HDMI connect ability, HD Audio and Blu-Ray / HD DVD decoding.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
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Sapphire is a name that most enthusiasts know as a quality video card manufacturer. Modders-Inc is taking a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256MB. This card not only boasts DirectX 10 gaming performance but it also supports 1080p hardware video rendering, HDMI with 5.1 surround sound through HDMI and it is Crossfire ready.
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Sapphire pulls out a dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 XT out of the technical hat. We tell you if it's any good.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
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This Sapphire Radeon HD 2400 XT is a good card, which offers a high image quality, thanks to the ATI Avivo HD technology, and it's fully compatible with the new DirectX 10 API from Microsoft. This card is not suitable for videogames: using resolutions superior to 800x600 or using filters, modern games run under 30FPS, which make them slow and hardly playable.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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We've just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we look at three mainstream video cards. The first is the Sapphire HD 2400XT which is an ultra affordable video card with some solid features. The next two models aim to deliver improved gaming performance while maintaining respectable price points that can appeal to a broader market, the Sapphire HD 2600Pro OC and the Sapphire HD 2600XT. We take a look at each model's bundle, feature set, overclockability, and performance to see how they stack up to similarly priced competition...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
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We take a look at Sapphire's Radeon HD 2900 XT. The company has been known to known to produce truly customised SKUs in the past, so will its R600 buck the reference trend?
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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AMD have got their whole mid-range lineup well and truly going now and we had a look at Palit and their HD 2600 cards the other week; now it's time to have a look at the Sapphire HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT. The question is though, is it enough for us to recommend them over the 8600 series? Well at the time of writing about the Palit cards, almost! Since then a new driver set has come out in the form of the Catalyst 7.8 and some serious speed increases were seen for the mid-range cards. This could be enough for them to be the card of choice for users on a budget.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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Well we are glad to finally been able to partner with Sapphire, which earned as a company already a great name within the ATI community. So we will take you on a journey to show a bit more on what Sapphire is all about and which products they are currently offering on the market. The wait is finally over. Not so long ago AMD released the Radeon HD 2900 series and along with that introduction came as well the low-end and mid-range products to go up against NVIDIA. Now that we are a couple of months further the Radeon HD 2600 series are available. Sapphire brings is the GDDR4 edition of the Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics accelerator.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
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ATI were well behind nVidia when it came to releasing their DX10 hardware. 6 months passed between the introduction of the 8800 range from the green guys before the boys in red brought their 2xxx series of cards to the table. Even then, the king of GPUs at the time, the GTX, was still way out of the 2900XT's league. However, many have claimed it is a fantastic mid-high range solution; let's see if we concur.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Back in May, Sapphire announced the Ultimate Radeon HD 2600 XT, and the world rejoiced. HD 2600 XT got a passive cooler first seen on the older Sapphire Radeon X1650 PRO, and thus the silence folks might crave. The announce date of July came and went, though, putting a dampener on said rejoicing, but only until now.
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It seems ATI made the right decision when it chose not to ship HD 2900 XTs with 1024MB of memory. While doubling the memory quota does improve performance by a small margin, it is nowhere near enough to justify the increase in cost the extra memory would have demanded.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
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There is no R600 Linux driver yet, but as we have shared before it is coming later this year. When the Linux support does arrive, we will be delivering same-day Linux benchmarks with a plethora of different graphics cards as well as seeing if the new AMD Linux driver can finally outperform NVIDIA's binary driver and hardware, which for years has been faster under Linux. Among the many graphics cards that we will be using to deliver these initial benchmarks is the Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB. In this preview while being stuck with the old driver, we have a few words to say on Sapphire's fastest 512MB GPU aside from what we had shared in our launch-day Radeon HD 2900XT coverage.
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