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SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition)
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Expand. Accelerate. Dominate.
Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors. Expand your visual real estate across up to three displays and get lost in the action with revolutionary ATI Eyefinity Technology. Using ATI Stream technology, accelerate even the most demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.3 The first to deliver full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11, these GPUs enable rich, realistic visuals and explosive HD gaming performance so you can dominate the competition.
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| Specification | | Output | 2 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x HDMI
1 x DisplayPort
| | GPU | 725 MHz Core Clock
40 nm Chip
1440 x Stream Processors
| | Memory | 1024 MB Size
256 -bit GDDR5
4000 MHz Effective
| | Software | Driver CD
DIRT 2 Coupon-(Game edition only)
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All specifications and accessories are subject to change without notice. Please check with your supplier for exact offers. Products may not be available in all markets.  |  ATI EyefinityATI 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.
Eyefinity Demo
*To support 3 displays, one of the monitors has to support DisplayPort
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 | Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.
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 | 40nm Process Technology Cutting edge manufacturing process allows for efficient, high performance parts which use less power than their predecessors. |
 | ATI Stream Technology 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/Blue-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 with gaming power withATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology.ATI CrossFireX technology supports up to four graphics cards to be used in a single system. |
 | PCI-Express 2.0 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. |
 | Dual-Link DVI 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 Turn your PC into a home entertainment centre with HDMI. Simply connect the graphics card to an LCD TV with an HDMI input and you will be able to enjoy watching HD videos with audio in the living room. |
 | DisplayPort 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. |
 | Microsoft DirectX® 11 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. |
 | OpenGL® 3.1 and 3.2 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
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 | Shader Model 5.0 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. |
 | Accelerated Video Transcoding Massively parallel architecture and support for common shader transcoding instructions accelerates video encoding / transcoding way beyond what was possible with the CPU only.
(Requires application support for ATI Stream technology and Digital rights management restrictions may apply) |
 | 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) |
 | 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine Supports more than 4 teraFLOPS of compute power, providing more performance than any other graphics card available. (As of October 9th, 2009, the ATI Radeon™ HD5970 scored in excess of X 10,000 in 3DMark Vantage V1.01, the highest single graphics card score achieved to date.) |
 | Anti-aliasing features Supports advanced AA (Anti-aliasing) features to maximise your enjoyment of high definition gaming.
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for superior quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
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 | Physics processing support Accelerates the performance of Fluid Dynamics, Cloth Simulation, Soft or Rigid Body Dynamics, Universal Collision Detection, Hair Simulation and Finite Element Analysis for the most lifelike gaming experience. |
 | ATI PowerPlay™ 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. |
 | Windows® 7 support 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. |
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- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
- 500 Watt Power Supply is required.
- 600 Watt Power Supply is recommended for CrossFireX™ System.
- 2 X 75Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required.
- 4 X 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required for CrossFireX™ system.
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products.
- 1024 MB Minimum of system memory.
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
- DVD playback requires DVD drive.
- Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive.
- For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second same ATI Radeon™ graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required.
- To support 3 displays, one of the monitors has to support DisplayPort.
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| | DAM Good and DAM Good Value Awards by Hardwarecanucks | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) |  It is quite evident they are both perfectly positioned to take full advantage of the market segments they are competing in. ATI really did make a series of rational, well thought-out decisions when releasing the HD 5770 and HD 5850 since while there is enough of a buffer zone between them in terms of price and performance that they will never end up competing with one another.
In our opinion, the Sapphire HD 5850 is truly a card to be reckoned with since it incorporates near-HD 5870 performance into a package which is smaller, more efficient and quite affordable to boot.
Affordability is the name of the game these days and in this, the HD 5850 wins hands down. To make matters even better, it is dead silent when compared to ATI’s previous generations.
The Sapphire HD 5770 on the other hand is an interesting card in its own right by bringing the features of higher end cards to the $199 price point. No, it won’t wow you with its performance at eye-bleeding resolutions but for those of you on a budget, there is nothing else on the market today that even comes close to its appeal. What we really appreciate is that Sapphire didn’t go down the cost savings road with this card by changing out the cooler or dumbing down the component selection like some of their competitors.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that both Sapphire’s HD 5770 and HD 5850 provide excellent value for your money by offering high-end performance coupled with excellent efficiency.
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| | Benchmark reviews: Highly Recommended | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | "Sapphire Radeon HD5850, kao predstavnik svih Radeon HD5850 kartica na našem tržištu, još uvek nudi sve one prednosti koje smo već pominjali u testu jačeg modela, a među kojima su i podrška za DirectX 11 i DirectCompute 11, viši kvalitet antialiasing-a i anisotropic/triliear filtera, tri vrste konektora i mogućnost povezivanja više displeja nego što ćete ikad imati. Dovoljno je brza čak i za igranje Crysis i Crysis Warhead naslova u rezoluciji 1920 x 1200, čak i kada ih opteretimo teksturnim modovima i podignemo nivo detalja onoliko koliko ni sam Crytek nije predvideo. Istovremeno, smatramo da će biti dovoljno jaka da u narednom periodu prikazuje sve najavljene igre sa prihvatljivim „frejmrejtom“, a već sada se ne može reći da košta previše, zbog čega od nas dobija i zvaničnu Benchmark Highly Recommended preporuku." | |
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| | Score 10 out 10 by Thinkcomputers | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 beat the 1GB GTX 260 quite soundly in every test. The overclock gave me more of a performance boost than I would have expected from a 5% overclock, in all but one test the gains were significant. Even in the other test, a gain of 1 FPS is about what I’d expect from a small overclock, so even it isn’t anything to sneeze at.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 turned out to be everything I expected. It looks sharp with its Black/Red motif and excellent graphics. The cooler is very effective, and the fan silent.
I found nothing not to like about this video card. | |
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| | 5 Stars Award by Rage3D | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The HD5850 is significantly lower priced than the HD5870, but doesn't perform cheaply - this is the bang/buck hero of the Cypress line up.
One of the few GPUs to support DirectX 11 as well as support for value adding technologies such as Eyefinity and HDMI 1.3a and premium Blu-ray audio formats, it's a well rounded package.
An nice package with good build quality and high performance components, and a coupon for one of DirectX 11's showcase titles means you can buy with confidence.
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| | Recommended by Bigbruin | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The HD5850 is a good option for those looking for a gaming graphics card with solid, above average performance. That statement would fit with just about any HD5850 card on the market, and while Sapphire usually does something interesting to set their cards apart from the rest of the crowd, this one seems to simply follow the norm.
I don't really have any negative comments regarding the card itself..
The bottom line is that the HD5850 is an excellent choice for those in need of some serious gaming muscle, but not the kind of muscle that costs $300, $400, or even more. For $270, the Sapphire card offers great performance, fairly low noise output, decent energy efficiency, and all of the cool new features available in the HD5XXX series.
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| | Gold Award by Overclockersclub | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | The Sapphire HD 5850 does not disappoint. It's one step down the performance ladder and it gives the GTX285 a run for its money.
When you consider the fact that this card retails for 260 bucks or 100 dollars less than the GTX 285, the former heavyweight single GPU champ takes a beating in the price vs. performance battle.
The temperatures the Sapphire HD 5850 produced under load were actually quite low for a card with this kind of horsepower.
Sapphire's HD 5850 was able to produce excellent overclocking results by posting a core clock increase from 725Mhz to 870MHz and and increase on the Samsung GDDR5 memory to 1225Mhz from 1000MHz, increases of 20%+ on both counts. When tested, the overclocks yielded significant gains throughout the entire suite of games and benchmarks almost reaching the level of the HD 5870! If you want great performance in the 250 dollar price range you would be hard pressed to make a choice other than the Sapphire HD 5850 at this point. | |
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| | Gold Tachometer Award by Benchmarkreviews | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | In terms of DirectX 10 performance however, the HF5850 was more of a threat to the GeForce GTX 285. In synthetic 3DMark Vantage tests, the Radeon HD 5850 performed up to 22% better than an overclocked GTX 285, depending on the test scene and resolution.
Temperatures at load were very good, even though the Cypress GPU has 54% more transistors per square millimeter of chip die than the GT200. Aside from impressive DirectX 11 performance, electrical power consumption was extremely efficient with only 31W consumed at idle and 157W under full 3D load. For the time being, ATI's Radeon HD 5850 is the best value among single-GPU products available, and one the only graphics card capable of playing DirectX 11 games in Windows 7.
For the cost, my recommendation is for the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 DirectX 11 video card. High-performance gamers and multi-monitor power users can't go wrong at this price point, and will only get better. | |
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| | Hot Product Award by Motherboards.org | | | SAPPHIRE HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE (Game Edition) | | ATI has hit a home run with the HD 5800 series as the cards are the fastest single chip solutions on the market for most applications and the full compliance with DirectX 11 allows you to have a sense of future-proofing more than any other card on the market today. You have two choices with the HD 5800 series, the HD 5870 and the HD 5850 both separated by nearly $100. At this moment the cards available are all reference cards with the same core and memory clocks, meaning that the Sapphire card is a good choice for those wanting a no-nonsense ATI card. At $279, the HD 5850 is an excellent buy doubling the performance from the HD 4870 which is no mean feat. | |
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