Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme Reviews
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme 1GB Review
Before we kick off this review, I'd like to give everyone a moment to regain their composure either from having a hearty laugh or being greatly confused. Yes, this is a review of an HD 5850 graphics card in, *checks calendar*, 2011. When our friends at Sapphire a couple of weeks ago contacted us about reviewing the "Xtreme" edition of its Radeon HD 5850, I was a little taken back. "Are they serious?", I thought. It was the first time ever that I can recall where I saw a company release a last-gen product well into the current-gen cycle. So what's the deal? According to Sapphire, the HD 5850 was one of the most heralded graphics cards released over the past couple of years, and in some ways, it out-performs the newer HD 6850. One example is with the computational power (2.088 TFLOPS vs. 1.488 TFLOPS) and texture fill rates (52.2GT/s vs. 37.2GT/s) - but even so, can releasing a last-gen card more than six months into the new cycle ever make sense? I thought Sapphire was a bit nuts when we were first asked to review a last-gen, yet current, graphics card, but I wanted to give the company the benefit of the doubt and see just what it was that made the "Xtreme" more extremey than the original, so I decided to get one in and take it for a spin.
Sapphire 5850 Xtreme
Originally released in 2009, the AMD HD58xx series graphics card quickly gained popularity due to their ability to fully support DX 11, providing a completely new level of tessellation. Released in October of 2009, the HD5850 filled the lower end of the performance slot and was able to deliver great performance for its price. Originally, the HD5850 was oriented towards users who wanted that extra punch, but didn't feel the need to go overboard with their graphics. However, for those that wish to take full advantage of the HD5850, CrossFire is available, and considering the low price of the graphics card, this should be easily accessible. With the great success of the 5850, vendors like Sapphire have decided to release an extreme and more powerful version, in order to keep up with the changes that occured in the gaming industry over the past year. Today, Sapphire announced the release of 5850 Extreme graphics card, priced at $150 USD, though it can be bought for as low as $130 USD on Newegg.com. The card is equiped with 1440 stream processors, 72 texture units, as well as support for up to 1 GB of GDDR5 Memory at a bandwidth of 150 GB/s.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 XTREME 1 GB DDR5 HDMI/DVI-I/DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 100282XTREME | $229.99 | See it |
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