|
|
Reviews Around The Web
|
Choose Web Reviews from this Maker:
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
"For a DirectX 11 launching point, the HD5770 from Sapphire is surprisingly a very quick and powerful videocard for little money. Right out of the box it plays with the HD4850, bullies it around the school yard then takes its lunch. Then it runs over to the HD4870, runs circles around it, and then gives it a black eye."
|
|
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
For a graphics card that retails for a suggested $130, the Radeon HD 5750 sure packs in a lot of features. In addition to its solid performance and superb power consumption, the card supports multiple monitor outputs, DirectX 11, Eyefinity and more. To top it all off, Sapphire includes a voucher for a free copy of Dirt 2 right in the box.
|
|
Friday, November 20, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
Sapphire's HD 5750 is priced competitively below $150 and offers all the new features like DirectX 11, AMD Eyefinity, native HDMI & DP and more. Even though the cooler does not look like it, it works extremely well and keeps the card cool and very quiet. We were also able to overclock our sample by more than 20% which essentialy brings the HD 5750's performance to levels of the HD 5770.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"The Sapphire PurePSU 950W arrived Technic3D. See you in the following Review from Technic3D the PSU with six +12V rails (30A), 140mm Fan, 12x SATA hard disk connectors and 4x PCI-e 6+2-Pin."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If one of the new Sapphire Radeon HD5770 video cards is capable of
playing DirectX 11 games, then two of them should make them perform
even better. Come along as we take two of these cards and use them
to benchmark DirectX 10.1 and DirectX 11 apps. The results for a
three hundred dollar setup may surprise you.
|
|
Monday, November 16, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
The video card market has been turned on its ear by the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series. Currently consisting of the HD 5870, the HD 5850, the HD 5770 and HD 5750, ATI has released new chips to cover every market from $129-369. The launch has been so successful that the cards are in short supply on the normal shopping channels like Newegg and ZipZoomFly if you can buy it at all with shipping dates of 10/31 or later.
Most of the video cards on the market based on the new architecture are totally reference based designs without modification to the PCB or clock speed. New cards have started to come out with modifications including the card I?m reviewing today. Today?s card on the review bench is the Sapphire HD 5750 Vapor-X card based upon the HD 5750 chip ATI released last month. This card takes advantage of Sapphire?s Vapor-X technology and is slightly overclocked over the reference clocks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We recently took a look at Sapphire's HD5750 in this review, and now we're going to see what one of the bigger, faster siblings of the new DirectX 11 capable HD5XXX family has to offer. The main focus of this review is to feature Sapphire's Radeon HD5850 1GB graphics card, but as an interesting side effect we will also take a look at the CrossFire performance of a pair of these HD5850 cards, as well as a pair of Sapphire's HD5750 cards.
|
|
Friday, November 13, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
AMD has retaken the crown for superior graphical power with their ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card, and consumers have confirmed that this is the hottest graphics accelerator of the moment. Armed with 1600 shader cores, the 40nm Cypress GPU claims to push video game frame rates well-beyond what NVIDIA offers from their GeForce GTX 285 counterpart. While the list of DirectX 11 video games has just started to grow, with one of the first being a free Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) named BattleForge. Perhaps ATI has created the perfect storm for their Radeon HD 5800-series by offering a price-competitive graphics card with several free games included or available. While NVIDIA toils away with CUDA and PhysX, ATI is busy delivering the next generation of hardware for the gaming community to enjoy. Sapphire factory overclocks the Cypress GPU and adds their own custom cooling solution, named Vapor-X. In this article Benchmark Review! s tests the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X video card 21161-03 against a cross-section of modern graphics accelerators.
|
|
Friday, November 6, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
"Sapphire's Radeon HD5750 is a budget graphics card, but offers some exciting potential for gamers who can't afford to go down the high-priced road. No shame in that, and we're bang-for-the-buck fanboys as much as the next person. The 5700 series cards bring some very attractive features to the table, so let's take a closer look and see how this one shapes up."
|
|
Saturday, October 31, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft Windows 7 will deliver DirectX 11 visual quality like never seen before, and ATI has endowed gamers with an unparalleled graphics solution in the Radeon HD 5870. While the Radeon 5800-series is a monumental feat for AMD over the unprepared competition, not everyone can fit the absolute best video card available into their budge. Armed with 1440 shader cores, the 40nm Cypress GPU HD5850 is positioned to offer an excellent value for the upper mid-range and hits the sweet-spot for DirectX 11 gamers. In this article, Benchmark Reviews compares the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 video card, model 21162-00-50R, against a cross-section of modern graphics accelerators.
|
|
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
"I?m guessing most PC enthusiasts will be familiar with the company Sapphire and in particular their graphics cards which are highly respected in the market place. However, I doubt many users are very accustomed to Sapphire?s PSU range or even knew they manufactured power supplies at all.
If this applies to you then this review will broaden your horizons and introduce you to the Sapphire Pure series ? in particular the 950W model. With a modularized design and support for not only ATI FirePRO graphics but also nVidia SLI support, the features make for good reading but how will it perform? Let?s take a look..."
|
|
Monday, October 26, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
AMD has leap-frogged NVIDIA by launching the DirectX 11 compatible Radeon HD 5870 video card. Armed with 1600 shader cores, the 40nm Cypress GPU claims to push video game frame rates well-beyond what NVIDIA offers from their GeForce GTX 285 counterpart. While the list of DirectX 11 video games has just started to grow, with one of the first being a free Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) named Battle Forge. Perhaps ATI has created the perfect storm for their Radeon HD 5800-series by offering a price-competitive graphics card with several free games included or available. While NVIDIA toils away with CUDA and PhysX, ATI is busy delivering the next generation of hardware for the gaming community to enjoy. In this article, Benchmark Reviews compares the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 video card, model 21161-00-50R, against a cross-section of modern graphics accelerators.
|
|
Sunday, October 25, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
"The HD 5770 offers some serious performance for the price and when it came to testing, I knew that benching at 2560 x 1600 wasn't going to be an option, it was then a decision of if I benchmarked the card at 1280 and 1600 or continued to use the 1680 and 1920 setup. Once the results started rolling in I was so glad that I stuck with benchmarking at 1920 x 1200, because this video card manages to perform at that resolution.
We're seeing two results, just over 30 FPS in the minimum department or way below it due to the fact that the game isn't coded the best and prime examples include Crysis Warhead and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky. Games like FarCry 2, World in Conflict and Left 4 Dead see some seriously good numbers at 1920 x 1200, the other thing to consider is the fact that our presets are designed for high-end cards, so we see are at High to Very High in our graphics quality settings."
|
|
Sunday, October 18, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
?A few weeks ago Sapphire made another move into the PSU market. This time their move was much bolder, as the company released an entire new series consisting of four new products. Their new Pure series of units are designed to catch the attention of all kinds of technology enthusiasts.?
|
|
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
The Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 card is clocked at the default clock speeds which provide plenty of performance for every game out there today and if you want more performance get a second card. This card comes with a coupon for Dirt 2 which is the first DirectX 11 game coming in December. As this the only HD 5870 card I have reviewed and it performs almost as fast as a GTX295 which is NVIDIA?s dual GPU card and faster than the GTX285 which was the previous fastest card on the market, I give the Sapphire card the Editor?s Choice for those wanting a fast video card with support for the future DirectX 11 games and support for Eyefinity, allowing up to 3 monitors to be utilized at the same time on this card.
|
|
|
|
|
|