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SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition)
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SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC,
the fastest graphics card – ever!
World leading graphics supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology, now introduces the world’s fastest graphics card, the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC Edition.
With twice the computing power of the highly acclaimed SAPPHIRE HD 5870, the new HD 5970 model shares all the exciting features of this family – including support for the DirectCompute 11 instruction set of Microsoft DirectX 11, hardware tessellation and multi threaded communication with the system CPU. It also supports the acceleration of applications supported by ATI Stream, and the ability to display across three monitors simultaneously with ATI Eyefinity.
The SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC Edition ships with enhanced clock speeds of 735MHz core and 1010MHz (4.04GHz effective) - faster than the standard model, making the SAPPHIRE HD 5870 OC the fastest card in its class, and the fastest in the world*. Enthusiasts will also be able to tune performance of these SAPPHIRE cards using the SAPPHIRE Redline voltage tweaker tool** to enable higher levels of overclocking.
With 2GB of fifth generation GDDR5 memory and a new architecture with a total of 3200 stream processors and 160 texture units the SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC is lightning fast with existing DirectX10.1, DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.0 games and applications, and will support stunning new levels of detail, transparency and lighting effects in new releases of software using DirectX 11. All of this comes with a modest active power consumption and ATI Powerplay Dynamic Power Management to achieve super-low power consumption in 2D and idle modes.
These cards incorporate the latest architectural features from the ATI division of AMD in order to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11, including DirectCompute 11 instructions, hardware Tessellation and multi-threaded communications with the system CPU. These combine to provide new capabilities such as the interaction between transparent objects, new lighting and accelerated post processing effects as well as supporting ATI Stream for accelerating applications such as video transcoding.
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Get truly immersive entertainment (gaming and video) experience and help boost productivity (home and office) with ATI Eyefinity Technology, extreme multi-monitor support.
ATI Eyefinity technology maximizes your field of view across up to three displays, fully engaging your peripheral vision and putting you right IN the game.
- Flight Sim and Racing Games:
Create the ultimate flight or racing simulation platform by extending supported games across multiple displays for a panoramic view that gives you a true sense of height and speed.
- Role-playing Games (RPG):
Get a bird’s-eye view and spread out game information across multiple screens and still stay in the center of the action.
- Real-time strategy (RTS):
See more of the battlefield without having to zoom.
- First-Person Shooter (FPS):
Get a better view of what’s going on around you, use your peripheral vision so you can see the enemy before they see you.
Help increase productivity by maximizing your visual workspace so you can see more Windows simultaneously
The perfect solution for your home or office, ATI Eyefinity technology makes multi-tasking a snap by eliminating the need to flip between windows. Surf the internet, do email, edit photos or videos, track your stocks and much more all at the same time.
ATI Eyefinity technology is ideal for multimedia applications; it allows you to keep several ‘palettes’ or ‘panels’ open while you edit images or videos.
Accelerate
Perform tasks on a PC faster with ATI Stream technology, speed up demanding everyday applications and get more done in less time.
Unleash the massive parallel processing power of your GPU to help you do more with your PC than ever before.
With multimedia softwares that support ATI Stream, users can enjoy fast video encoding and transcoding so video playback, editing and transferring content to portable media players is quick and easy.
DirectCompute presents even more opportunities for you to take advantage of your ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series GPU for tasks other than just rendering
- DirectCompute, helps improve PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application’s processing load, freeing up the computer’s mainprocessor to take on additional tasks.
- DirectX 11-enabled applications are designed for fast performance on your PC running Windows 7. In addition, programs designed for Windows 7 can convert a digital media file to a different size or format can perform a faster conversion (i.e. transcode) under Windows 7 than under previous versions of WIndows.
- Windows® 7 with built-in drag and drop transcoding is a great example how ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series GPUs provide an exceptional experience for the upcoming operating system.
- 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.
Dominate
With DirectX® 11 support you can play the latest HD games with unrivalled visual quality, astonishing realism and ultra-fast frame rates.
Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11
- ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series graphics accelerators and software drivers are the first to offer full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11.
- Get striking 3D visual effects and dynamic interactivity with DirectX® 11 support, including features like HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tessellation.
- DirectX® 11 brings new levels of visual realism to gaming on the PC and you’ll get top-notch performance for these titles with ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series GPUs.
Get AMDs most advanced technology and massive compute power with ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series GPUs
- AMD’s 2nd generation TeraScale engine dramatically increases the processing power over the previous generation.
- Feel the power of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games.
- Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5memory.
- Get up to 1.8X of a graphics performance boost with ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode.
ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series GPUs are designed to deliver all the benefits of Microsoft Windows® 7
Engineered to take advantage of all the graphical features within the new Windows 7 operating system, ATI Radeon™ HD 5900 Series GPUs deliver a visually compelling experience and a fast, responsive PC.
Dual DirectX®11 Game Bundle
Special Tool
Redline Overvolt Utility, enables end users to tweak the voltage of the GPU.**
SAPPHIRE Redline tool available as a download from www.sapphiretech.com. Works only with SAPPHIRE HD 5970 OC..
Sapphire graphics cards are intended to be operated only within their associated specifications and factory settings. Operating your Sapphire graphics cards outside of specification or in excess of factory settings, including but not limited to overclocking, may damage your graphics card and/or lead to other problems, including but not limited to, damage to your system components and might lead to possible data loss. Sapphire’ss product warranty does not cover damages caused by overclocking, even when overclockingis enabled via Sapphire software. Sapphire does not provide support or service for issues or damages related to use of Sapphire products outside of specifications or in excess of factory settings. You may also not receive support or service from your system manufacturer.
Sapphire HD 5970 OC System Requirements
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 650 Watt or greater power supply one 75W 6-pin and one 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (850 Watt with two 75W 6-pin and two 150W 8-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
- Minimum 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 an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 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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| Full Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support
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| ATI Eyefinity Technology(B)
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| ATI Stream Technology(A.D.)
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| Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology
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| Dual 2nd Generation TeraScale Engine
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| Microsoft Windows 7® Support(E.)
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| ATI CrossFireX™ Technology(C.)
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| Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
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| Accelerated Video Transcoding
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| Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support
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| Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology including memory clocks (D.) |
| ATI Avivo HD Support (D.)
ATI Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video.
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
DVD Upscaling
Dynamic Contrast
Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support |
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A. ATI Stream Technology Requires Application Support
B. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays
C. ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply
D. ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
E. To support Window 7, a Windows7-capable system is required.
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| Dual 2nd Generation Terascale Engine
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| I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I, Mini Display Port
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| Memory Clock: Effective 4040 MHz
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| PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
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| 2GB(1GBx2) / 512 bit(256bit x2) GDDR5
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| Dual slot Fan with auto fan control
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| Battle Forge Coupon In the Box
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| Redline Overvolt Utility available on the Website |
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| | Editor's Choice by Hitechlegion | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) |  The Sapphire HD5970 Overclocked Edition, outperforms the leading NVIDIA GTX 295 by about a 15% margin.
The major benefit of the Sapphire HD 5970 is that it's the only DirectX 11 Dual Graphics Card on the market, allowing you to take full advantage of the new features Windows 7 has to offer. Other benefits are efficiency and overclockability. Unlocked Voltages equate to higher overclocks and Sapphire Redline comes packaged with the card.
If considering an upgrade from your old graphics card, you won't be upset with the performance of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 Overclocked Edition. It will outperform other video cards in its price point. You will also be able to take advantage of DirectX 11 and the enhancements that come with it.
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| | PC Chip: Preporuka | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | "Pojava nove ATI-jeve serije grafičkih kartica Radeon HD 5000 protresla je svijet gamera i entuzijasta širom svijeta. Posebice je protresla svog konkurenta Nvidiju, koja još uvijek nije odgovorila na provokacije iz ATI-ja."
"Prilikom testiranja HD5970 nametnuo se kao najbrža grafička kartica koju smo imali prilike isprobati. Bez problema je pregazio i svog najžešćeg sadašnjeg rivala, Nvidijinu grafičku karticu GTX295."
"ZA: vrhunske performanse, podrška za Eyefiniti, tih rad i mala potrošnja energije u 2D okruženju, podrška za DX11" | |
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| | BUG: Preporuka | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | "Ako je suditi prema ritmu izdavanja novih DirectX 11 grafičkih kartica, AMD je odlučio do kraja zacementirati svoju vodeću poziciju na tržištu. Krunski dokaz ove tvrdnje predstavljanje je Radeona HD 5970, dvoglave kartice koja je toliko brza da joj ni najviše postavke ultrazahtjevnog Crysisa ne predstavljaju problem."
"PLUS: Podrška DirectX 11, broj i tip videoizlaza, tehnologija Eyefinity, invarijantni AF algoritam, novi AA modovi, vrlo visoke performanse." | |
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| | Golden Bear Award by Bjorn3D | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | | To say the least the Sapphire 5970 is a monster. Not only is the card ridiculously long, but also extremely powerful.
The Redline software included with this card only makes the deal sweeter. With this software you can increase the voltage of the card, and do an extreme overclock to net you huge gains in performance on top of the already incredible performance of this card. Usually such software comes at a premium price, but this card is in line (price wise) with all of the normal 5970's.
Overall the Sapphire 5970 Redline was the best performing card we have ever seen, and had an amazing price compared to similar products from Nvidia. This is why the card earns a 9 out of 10 and the Bjorn3D Golden Bear Award.
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| | Editor's Choice by OverClockersClub | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | | There really is not a whole lot to say other than there is a new king in town. The Sapphire HD 5970 OC delivers performance far superior to what is currently available in every test run. This is the fastest video card out right here, right now.
If you can't get more clock speed you have additional capabilities that can be used with the HD 5970 OC.
Sapphire has given the end user a pretty substantial bundle that includes two DX 11 titles so that you can take full advantage of the capabilities of the HD 5970 OC.
Not everyone will want or need a card of this caliber but you can rest assured that there will be enough for you to jump on the bandwagon to have the best of the best video card on the block, the Sapphire HD 5970 OC!
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| | Editor Choice, MUST HAVE, Tweaktown, HD5970 2GB OC | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | | ....With everything said and done, what are our thoughts on the HD 5970 and the Sapphire version as it comes out of the box? Well, to be frank, we love it. There's nothing better than having a single graphics card that performs almost as well as two out of the box. The bundle is kick ass and the specifications and feature set is the same as the HD 5870 which we love.
This card suits people who want an extremely fast setup but don't have a board that will offer them dual 16x; something like the P55 would be a prime example. It’s a great card if you're not interested in having two cards in your system and prefer the clean design of just a single one, want the chance to run up to four of the HD 5870 GPUs or just really love playing with fast and expensive technology.
The package Sapphire has given us is great; the inclusion of all the normal HD 5870 goodies along with the extra game is a great addition. This is especially true since you can grab BattleForge now and start taking advantage of DX11 immediately. The performance of the model is what you would expect, which is nothing short of fantastic and the pricing while being a bit hard to swallow, isn't really that much of a surprise.
Full article here, http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3013/sapphire_radeon_hd_5970_2gb_video_card/index16.html
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| | Great Hardware Award by Pureoverclock | | | SAPPHIRE HD5970 2GB GDDR5 PCIE (OC Edition) | | Quite simply, the Sapphire HD 5970 OC is the fastest graphics card on the planet, offering shock-inducing performance that cannot be touched by any single or dual-GPU card out there. And with the ability to tweak the voltages to overclock this card even further, we're left both shaking our heads in disbelief and grinning from ear to ear.
In terms of competition from the Nvidia side of things, there really isn't any. The 5970 OC's closest competitor is the GTX 295, a card that is also very fast but cannot match this DX11 monster except in Crysis Warhead where we noted essentially equal results.
The Sapphire Radeon 5970 OC is an excellent graphics card, posting the best GPU results we've ever seen. While few people will have the deep pockets to afford this card, those that do are probably diehard enthusiasts; if you're someone who craves top performance and doesn't mind putting up with some hassle along the way, then the Sapphire HD 5970 OC is for you.
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