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SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E
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| More Carnage For Your Coin!
Unshackle your PC's performance from the coin in your pocket as the SAPPHIRE HD 3870 liberates your inner gamer without compromising your wallet. Hard pressed to find a comparable product on the market for the price, the SAPPHIRE HD 3870 extinguishes all doubt that the Radeon HD 3870 core is a mid-range performing product. With features such as: DirectX® 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support, integrated HDMI and HDCP support for Blu-ray™/HD DVD decoding and for the extreme enthusiast, CrossFire X™ support, the SAPPHIRE incarnation of the HD 3870 will own your imagination and accelerate your performance on the virtual battlefield of your desktop! Reinvent the way you engage your gaming experience with every LOAD!
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- 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
- 256-bit GDDR4 memory interface
- Ring Bus Memory Controller
- Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
- Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
- Shader Model 4.1
- 32-bit floating point texture filtering
- Indexed cube map arrays
- Independent blend modes per render target
- Pixel coverage sample masking
- Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
- Gather4 texture fetching
- Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
- 320 stream processing units
- Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
- Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
- Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
- 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
- Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
- Shader instruction and constant caches
- Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
- Up to 128 textures per pixel
- Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
- DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
- High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
- Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
- Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
- Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
- Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
- Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
- 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
- Physics processing support
- Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
- High performance vertex cache
- Programmable tessellation unit
- Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
- Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
- Anti-aliasing features
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Temporal anti-aliasing
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (ATI CrossFire™ configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
- Texture filtering features
- 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
- 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
- Bicubic filtering
- sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
- Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
- Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
- Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
- OpenGL 2.0 support
- ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
- Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
- High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
- Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
- Motion compensation and IDCT
- ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
- Color space conversion
- Chroma subsampling format conversion
- Horizontal and vertical scaling
- Gamma correction
- Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
- De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
- Detail enhancement
- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
- Bad edit correction
- Two independent display controllers
- Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
- Full 30-bit display processing
- Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
- Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
- High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
- Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
- Fast, glitch-free mode switching
- Hardware cursor
- Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
- Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)
- Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content
- Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
- Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536
- HDMI output support
- Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080
- Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
- Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
- Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
- Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
- Underscan and overscan compensation
- MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
- VGA mode support on all display outputs
- ATI PowerPlay™
- Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
- Performance-on-Demand
- Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
- Clock and memory speed throttling
- Voltage switching
- Dynamic clock gating
- Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
- ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
- Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
- Integrated compositing engine
- High performance dual channel bridge interconnect
- Dual channel interconnect is not required for ATI CrossFire, and may not be included in all product configurations
- Some custom resolutions require user configuration
- HDCP support for playback of protected content requires connection to a HDCP capable display
System Requirement:
- PCI Express based PC is required with one X16 lane graphic slot available on the motherboard.
- 1GB or greater system memory for better performance.
- 450Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended.
- For ATI CrossfireX: 550 watt power supply or greater with two 6-pin connectors.
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products.
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
- DVD playback requires DVD driver.
- Blu-ray/HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive and playback software.
- For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board are required.
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| 256-bit GDDR4 memory interface |
| Core/Memory Clock – 800 / 1152MHz |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface |
| Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs |
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| 320 stream processing units |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface |
| 256-bit GDDR4 memory interface |
| 512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller |
| Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support |
| ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology |
| ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform |
| Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support |
| Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E |  I was blown away when I was proven wrong by the speeds, and performance of the GPU core and Memory. Vapor-X, the cooler that could is doing very well on its own.
Toxic consumes very little power when compared to a lot of other card offerings out there and produces very little heat thanks to the new Vapor-X cooler and VCT.
The Toxic HD3870 has to be one of the best ATI cards out now as far as the performance to price ratio goes.
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | Thanks to this the Toxic 3870 is also overclocked out of the box with 512MB of GDDR4 memory at 1152Mhz (2.3GHz effective) and the GPU running at 800MHz.
Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Toxic this is easily one of the better 3870 cards we've seen.
The bundles are amazing both with the software bundle of 3DMark, PowerDVD, and the Black Box and the HDMI cable is a nice twist as well.
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | At $189.99 at NewEgg, the HD3870 is nearly half the price of the $379.99 8800GTX. For as small as the performance gap is between the two cards in Linux, Sapphire's Radeon HD3870 Toxic is by far the best bang for the buck and won't let users down.
Blazing performance
Vapor-X technology heatsinks keeps the card cool in a single slot form factor
Best bang for the buck
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| | #1 Recommended by Bios Level | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | There's nothing more dissatisfying than when everything in a computer case is silenced except the video card. Water cooling is always an option, but there's always a certain level of risk with it. Sapphire has answered this question with the Radeon HD3870 ULTIMATE video card.
The Sapphire Radeon HD3870 Ultimate, which clocked only slightly slower, manages to keep up with its faster counterpart very well, and does so with a passive cooling solution | |
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| | Recommended by Club Overclocker | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | I was really impressed with the Sapphire 3870 Toxic video card.
The bottom line is the 3870 is a great mid-range GPU and Sapphire has only added to that greatness. The Vapor-X increases the potential overclocking ability of the card, while keeping the card cool and quiet, all while only using one slot. I'm very impressed with the Sapphire 3870 Toxic card and fully recommend it. | |
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| | DAM Innovative Award | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | This is one of most fully-featured cards on the market with full HDMI compatibility HD decoding among a myriad of other features.
We have reviewed quite a few graphics cards here at Hardware Canucks and this is the first one to include a HDMI cable. While it may not be up to the picture quality standards seen with the Cobalt Cable Ultimate HDMI cable, I was using on my Pioneer TV, it was definitely better than some of the generic junk I have tried in the past.
We find that Vapor-X is a hell of a technology if implemented properly so this heatsink gets our Dam Innovative Award. | |
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| | Recommended by Hot Hardware | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | The Toxic Vapor-X cooler offers cooling comparable to dual-slot solutions through vapor chamber technology, which gives Sapphire the flexibility to tinker with the card's clock speeds, running them a bit higher than the reference specification.
With it's higher than reference clock speeds, good bundle, and single-slot cooler, the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Toxic 512MB is one of the most attractive Radeon HD 3870 cards available. | |
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| | Must Have Award | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | Even when the fan was running at 100% on the test bench, during heavy testing, it was much, much more quite than any dual slot cooler I have tested.
After all the testing and actual game play with the Sapphire HD3870 Toxic edition I can say that it kicks ass.
The performance for a single slot card is great and maybe be hard to beat anytime soon.
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| | Highly Recommended by Pro Clockers | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI-E | | The Toxic HD 3870 uses a single slot cooler that would be a godsend for those that are tight on space.
The Sapphire Toxic 3870 is a pretty special card when it comes to the price-to-performance ratio. The ability to play any games at high settings and at higher resolutions is a godsend to most of us. | |
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