SAPPHIRE- Graphic Card- SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

SAPPHIRE Toxic 4890 Enthusiast Card with Enthusiast Cooling

The SAPPHIRE HD 4890 TOXIC uses the same configuration of Vapor-X and heatpipe cooling technology as the ATOMIC Edition. It is factory overclocked with a high speed core clock of 960MHz as well as 1GB of GDDR5 memory with clocks of 1050MHz to give stunning performance straight out of the box. Two dual-link DVI ports are provided as well as TV out. HDMI and VGA are supported with dongles.

Vapor-X Cooling

Vapor Chamber Technology is based on the same principles as heatpipe technology. A liquid coolant is vaporised at a hot surface, the resulting vapor is condensed at a cold surface then the liquid is returned to the hot surface. The recirculation process is controlled by a patented wick system. SAPPHIRE Vapor-X flattens the whole system into a slim chamber - which in the graphics application is mounted in contact with the surface of the graphics chip.

Redefine HD Gaming

TeraScale Graphics Engine
The TeraScale graphics engine in the ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 features over one teraFLOPS, nearly one billion transistors and 800 stream processors so you can enjoy the high resolutions and fast frame rates previously only available with dual-card systems1.
Advanced Memory
GDDR5 provides twice the data per pin of GDDR3 memory at the same clock speeds.
Enhanced Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering
High performance anisotropic filtering and 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.
DirectX® 10.1
Play today while preparing for tomorrow with state-of-the-art DirectX 10.1 graphics capabilities.
ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
ATI CrossFireX™ technology with up to quad GPU support offers superior scalability so your system is ready to level up when you are2.
PCI Express 2.0
Support for PCI Express 2.0 will prepare you for bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications.
Power to Spare
This GPU has the brute processing power needed for physics, artificial intelligence, stream computing and ray tracing calculations.

1 Compared to previous generation ATI Radeon™ graphics processors.

2 ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect and may require a specialized power supply.

Go Beyond HD Video

Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)
UVD 2 frees up your CPU for other tasks so you get The Ultimate Visual Experience™ for even the most processing-intensive content, including VC-1, H.264 and now MPEG-2. Also, take full advantage of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream, picture in picture (PIP) capabilities1,2.
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
With ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series graphics cards can help accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices. The ATI Video Converter, designed to enable GPU transcoding of HD video streams, is currently available.
Upscale Beyond 1080p
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond3.
Enhanced DVD Upscaling
Watch standard DVD movies in near high-definition quality with DVD upscaling. The GPU uses post processing algorithms to enhance standard and low resolution videos and movies on your HD display.
Dynamic Contrast
Dynamic Contrast automatically adjusts the contrast and brightness during scenes to consistently deliver a crisp, vibrant picture.
HDMI
Enjoy the latest audio technologies using HDMI with 7.1 digital surround sound support. Also, xvYCC support allows the user to enjoy a wider range of color when connected to a capable HDTV.

1 HD capable monitor required

2 Blu-ray drive required

3 The ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series GPUs can upscale video display to 2560x1600 on dual-link monitors which is almost twice the display resolution of 1080p displays.

Break-through Efficiency

Dynamic Power Management
ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPUs deliver high performance when needed and conserve power when the demand on the graphics processor is low.
Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process
Third generation 55nm chip uses the industry’s most energy efficient manufacturing process.

ATI Radeon HD 4890 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
500 Watt or greater power supply with 1x 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connector and 1 x 150 Watt 8-pin PCI Express ® connector recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)”
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSUfor a list of Certified products
1GB 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 a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board are required.

Factory overclocked at 960 MHz.

Industry Leading Vapor-X Technology

1x 6 Pin + 1 x 8 Pin External Power Connector

1 GB of GDDR5 memory

DirectX® 10.1 support

800 stream processing units

24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering

Quad mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance1

PCI Express® 2.0 support

Dynamic geometry acceleration

Game physics processing capability

	ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology2
	Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) DVD Upscaling Dynamic Contrast Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support

Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology2

ATI Stream technology2

1 ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect and may require a specialized power supply.

2 ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo HD and ATI Stream™ are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon GPUs. Not all ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics cards have all features and full enablement of some capabilities may require complementary products.

I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV

Core Clock: 960 MHz

Memory Clock: 1050 MHz, 4.2 Gbps

PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface

1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface

Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler with Heatpipes

HDMI compliant via dongle

7.1 Audio Channel Support

Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support

Shader Model 4.1 support

Oct 5, 2009

TechPowerUp Editors Choice Award

SAPPHIRE HD 4890 TOXIC

Reviewed by TechPowerUp

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

It looks like Sapphire has struck gold with their HD 4890 Toxic Vapor-X. The card offers considerably improved performance over the HD 4890 reference design and can beat the GeForce GTX 280. It does all that without being noisy, it is much quieter than all other HD 4890 cards I tested so far. It's great that Sapphire finally listened to our constant nagging: "your cards are too noisy". Another plus is that Sapphire has gone with the reference design voltage regulators which means that the card supports voltage control via software for GPU core and memory voltage. Personally I am not sure if there is a gain from going PCI-E 8+6 voltage connectors from 6+6 but it certainly won't hurt. The only thing that I can complain about is that the overclocking potential beyond Sapphire's stock clocks is very limited - we saw only about 1%. However, since Sapphire's card runs at 1.4V, you can up the voltage to 1.5V safely, then you should be able to reach 1 GHz on the core.

Jun 19, 2009

Firingsquad

Editor's Choice by Firingsquad

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

At the heart of the Toxic HD 4890 is its vapor chamber cooler. The vapor chamber is made from copper and is directly responsible for drawing heat off the RV790 GPU. From there Sapphire relies on three large heatpipes. The heatpipes give the vapor chamber cooler an added boost of cooling, much like a second turbocharger can be added to an engine to enhance its performance. The OC’ed clock speeds are also nice, but what really pushes the Toxic board over the top in our minds is the addition of the 8-pin PCIe power connector. The beefier power connector supplies the card with more juice than the standard 6-pin power connector, helping to ensure stability at high clock speeds. Sapphire’s done it again though. In our opinion the Toxic HD 4890 blends the perfect fusion of price, OC’ing, and cooling all into one package. The Toxic HD 4890 is physically the exact same card, only with a BIOS that’s been programmed with slower clocks. Save your money and opt for the Toxic. You won’t be disappointed.

Jun 16, 2009

Cluboverclocker

Recommended by Cluboverclocker

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

The Sapphire HD4890 Toxic edition adds a couple very nice bonuses to the already great HD4890 package, which makes it all that much more tempting. The Toxic edition of this card is not only in the upper echelon of cards in terms of stock core clock, it is also equipped with a much improved cooler, and extra power through the 8-pin + 6-pin power layout that should result in some fantastic overclocks. On top of all of this, the card is attractively priced at $259, right down the middle of the 4890 price range, which goes from $215 to $315 on Newegg. On this particular card, we knocked out an impressive 1040MHz core clock, beating out even the XFX XXX edition we tested nearly two months ago. I can only hope that the Atomic edition we are about to tear into can take us even higher.

Jun 9, 2009

Benchmarkreviews

Gold Tachometer Award by Benchmarkreviews

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

Beginning with the performance rating, the Sapphire HD4890 Toxic Vapor-X video card thoroughly exceeded any expectations we had for frame rate performance. While the HD4890 could be considered the most powerful single-GPU video card on the planet, that claim will depend on variables like factory-overclocked speeds. Given our benchmark test results, the massively-overclocked HD4890 almost always exceeded frame rate performance of our factory-overclocked ASUS ENGTX285TOP GTX 285. Of course, the Radeon HD4770 CrossFireX set did even better, and for less. In conclusion, the Sapphire HD4890 Toxic Vapor-X RV790 video card 11150-01-40R is exactly what consumers have wanted for more than a year: an ultra-high performance graphics that costs much less than the competition.

May 30, 2009

Hitechlegion

Aurum Award by Hitechlegion

SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E

If you are looking to upgrade your system or just your video card and desire the coolest quiet preoverclocked performance a video card can give straight out of the box, do not overlook the Sapphire HD 4890 Toxic. With the Vapo-X cooling system this is one of the most quiet and efficient air cooling system on the market. I was a little shocked that I took a performance hit (in some resolutions) when I overclocked the card, I first thought it was a heat issue but that wasn't the case. The dip in performance wasn't much but when you overclock you do expect some type of a increase. Overall my suggestion would be if you choose a Sapphire HD 4890 Toxic choose it for the superior cooling you'll get with the Vapor-X heatsink and fan, for clock speeds and price that trump most preoverclcked versions straight out of the box.