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SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE
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Successful graphics processors get award-winning coolers
Combining the highly successful HD 5000 series graphics architecture with its award winning Vapor-X cooling technology, Sapphire introduces Toxic HD 5850. Designed for the enthusiast user, the SAPPHIRE HD 5850 TOXIC Edition is factory overclocked to 765MHz core and 1125MHz (4500MHz effective) memory speeds. The SAPPHIRE HD 5850 TOXIC speeds existing DirectX10.1, DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.0 games and applications, and supports stunning new levels of detail, transparency and lighting effects in the latest releases of software using DirectX 11.
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| Specification | | Output | 2 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x HDMI
1 x DisplayPort
| | GPU | 765 MHz Core Clock
40 nm Chip
1440 x Stream Processors
| | Memory | 1024 MB Size
256 -bit GDDR5
4500 MHz Effective
| | Software | Driver CD
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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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 | Vapor-X Technology SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking !
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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.
- 600 Watt Power Supply is required.
- 900 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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| | Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic gets Elite Performance Award! | | Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic gets Elite Performance Award! | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE |  In short then, there's little more that we can say other than calling this the most impressive Radeon HD 5850-based graphics board we've seen thus far, all for a price point not a million miles away from a reference-based Radeon HD 5850. If you're looking for something a little different then the Radeon HD 5850 Toxic seems like a perfect choice - It's noticeably faster than a reference card, and it boasts probably the best air cooling solution you'll find on an AMD graphics board. It's a double-whammy that's certainly caught our attention, and I don't doubt it may well have caught yours too. | |
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| | Editor's Choice by Legit Reviews | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | The Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition is factory overclocked to 765MHz core and 1125MHz (4500MHz effective) memory speeds. The performance numbers show that the games and benchmarks love this extra clock frequency boost. Our ears also like the Vapor-X cooling technology as this card is quieter than a reference designed Radeon HD 5850. It's not every day that you get better performance and less heat or noise, but with the SAPPHIRE HD 5850 TOXIC Edition you get the best of all worlds!.
Overclocking performance on the Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition video card was amazing. We were able to take the card from 765MHz core clock and 1125MHz memory clock all the way up to 901MHz core clock and 1200MHz memory clock. This is a 24% increase on the core clock and a 20% increase on the memory clock from a reference design Radeon HD 5850 as a normal ATI Radeon HD 5850 runs at just 700MHz on the core and 1000MHz on the memory. By overclocking the Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition graphics card it was nearly able to perform on the same level as the Radeon HD 5870!
Pricing aside, the Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition is hands down the fastest and greatest looking Radeon HD 5850 graphics card that we have ever laid our hands on and for that we give it the Editor's Choice Award.
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| | Hardware Golden Choice Award by WhatIfGaming | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | The AMD ATI Radeon Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 brings a new era for increased level-enthusiasts to ramp up their gaming platforms to Microsoft’s DirectX 11 specification, while maintaining the core platform compatibility to use DVI-D, DVI-I, and finally HDMI for newer LCD monitors.
The AMD ATI Radeon Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 looks incredible than the standard reference cards with a Cypress chipcore that is sleek and integrated on the main board.
The ATI Radeon Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 is simply an incredible buy for consumers looking to get the Cypress chip power with DirectX 11 support, Eyefinity power for multi-display processing, incredible overclocking and HDMI onboard output for an incredible power suite on a card that is ingenious as much as it is stable and prurient to enthusiast needs. What sort of release AMD is planning past the AMD ATI Radeon 5970 chipset is still to be seen and remains very promising.
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| | Editor's Choice by Techgage | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | When the term "Radeon" is uttered, "Sapphire" is another that seems to follow. While there are a great number of vendors who produce ATI-based graphics cards, such as PowerColor, XFX, Gigabyte, ASUS and so forth, its Sapphire who holds the dominant lead in the marketplace. In some cases, and markets, this could be considered a bad thing, but Sapphire is doing some great things, so it's hard to not feel like it's the competition that's not trying hard enough to wow us (a lot of this also has to do with market penetration).
From that perspective, the Toxic is priced-right, and given that price, it performs well... noticeably better than a reference-clocked HD 5850. But, it's the overclocking that really helps make this card shine, because we managed to achieve such a high stable overclock, that the performance we saw nearly matched (and in the case of 3DMark, surpassed) the performance of the HD 5870, which retails for $400. That's great to see.
Given it's interesting design, and superb overclocking-ability, I feel compelled to award Sapphire's Toxic an Editor's Choice award.
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| | 4.5 out of 5 by Rage3D | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | Across the board the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC is better than the reference design: improved cooling, improved noise levels and improved performance; the design and components offer a great platform for serious overclockers. Interestingly, our gaming tests show more improvements on the Sapphire original design HD 5850 TOXIC over the reference design in DirectX 11 titles.
The price/performance ratio of the original HD 5850 was awesome, and despite the adjusted base card prices, and the TOXIC's premium over it, this is still the best bang/buck enthusiast card.
Rage3D awards the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC 4 1/2 stars! If you're an overclocker, or crossfire user, this is definitely the design for you. If you just want out-of-the-box BANG you won't be disappointed. Throwing in a 50% off coupon for a Sapphire DisplayPort active adapter would have been nice and, with this level enthusiast card where an included title is expected, given the massive push DiRT2 received for the Cypress launch we're left wishing an AvP Steam key was included as well.
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| | OCC Gold by Overclockersclub | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | As ATI's largest partner, Sapphire usually can put together something special once the reference cards are released. Time and again we have seen the Atomic, Vapor-X, and Toxic cards come spilling out the doors with special cooling setups, as well as better components used throughout to offer a video card that is built to run cooler, clock higher, and provide a higher level of gaming satisfaction. Sapphire has hit this mark with the Toxic HD 5850 OC Edition. With the use of Black Diamond Chokes, Solid capacitors, and Sapphire's exclusive Vapor-X technology, they have built a card that outperforms the reference version across the board - as it should.
As a specialty card, something has to differentiate it from the rest of the pack. The cooling solution and looks are two of these things that have been added to the Toxic HD 5850. You get a cover for the Vapor-X cooling solution that looks great with the deep blue Sapphire blue stripes instead of well.... the Batmobile.
When you get down to it the Sapphire Toxic Hd 5850 is a winner with excellent cooling and increased performance without a severe cost penalty over the reference cards. If you are looking for a new video card and the looks and performance appeal to your senses, the Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 is not a bad way to go!
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| | Recommended by Neoseeker | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | The Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic is strong across the board, and has no real big downsides either, besides one big one -- in short, this card is recommended.
Sapphire has just added on top of value of the HD 5850 here, with the Toxic model: you get a real overclock, that gives you a edge over standard HD 5850's; you get a well-rounded and plump bundle; you get a great cooler, if you really want to push the OC limits, and on top of that, the Toxic offers good power usage, and the full feature set of the HD 5000 series, such as DirectX 11 and Eyefinity.
All in all though, the Sapphire HD 5850 is a good card. Especially if the price falls closer to other HD 5850's on the market, you should give this card serious consideration.
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| | Editor's Choice by Hitechlegion | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | The Saphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition performs perfectly for its price point and excells in the cooling catagory due to the Vapor-X cooling solution. The Toxic 5850 has a factory tuned overclock which is guaranteed, so the 9% increase in performance over a stock 5850 gives it more of an advantage.
When I purchase a “Branded" video card, I expect extras and want those extras at a minimal price, the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition delivers both.
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| | DAM Good, DAM Good Value, DAM Innovative Awards by Hardwarecanucks | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | While the Toxic definitely doesn’t encroach into the performance envelope of the high-end HD 5870, it isn’t priced like an ultra high end card either. For a mere $30 premium over a reference-based product, this card retains all the best features of a reference HD 5850 like high efficiency and Eyefinity support while adding things that are sure to appeal to a wide variety of buyers. Basically, if the performance of a HD 5870 is appealing but the card itself is out of your price league, the HD 5850 Toxic is a perfect alternative.
Yet there is so much more to the HD 5850 than performance; great temperatures and very quiet operation also make an appearance. It seems like in every Sapphire review of late we rave about their Vapor-X cooling technology and this one is no different. Basically, it allows heat to be quickly whisked away from the core towards the fins of the heatsink assembly. This in turn allows the large fan to spin at a leisurely pace and makes the Toxic as quiet as the reference HD 5850 while offering vastly superior cooling performance.
Even though 2010 is still young, we can honestly say that the Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic is the best card we have reviewed so far this year. If you are looking for excellent performance and a quiet cooler that performs miracles while not putting a serious dent in your bank account, you don’t have to look any further than this card. As such, the Toxic does something no other product has ever done before : it wins our Dam Good, Dam Good Value and Dam Good Innovation awards. It really is that impressive.
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| | Editor's Choice by Firingsquad | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | We continue to be amazed by the performance and low acoustics of Sapphire’s vapor chamber cooling. By combining vapor chamber technology with conventional heatpipes, the 5850 Toxic board is able to run at very low temps: the 5850 Toxic ran cooler and quieter than ATI’s reference design even though it runs at much higher clock speeds than the reference design. Even under load, the board is barely audible – our Extech sound level meter couldn’t obtain a reading at a distance of 6”, indicating the Sapphire board was running quieter than 40dB.
In terms of temps, the 5850 Toxic ran 7-8 degrees cooler than the stock ATI cooler in our testing. Temps were under 60 degrees Celsius at load.
This is simply an incredible feat of engineering from Sapphire: the Toxic board runs cooler and quieter than the stock Radeon 5850 while also delivering more performance.
If you can afford to fork over the cash though, you’d be hard-pressed to beat Sapphire’s 5850 Toxic. As far as Radeon 5850 cards go, it doesn’t get any better than this at the moment.
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| | Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC gets a Silver Award! | | Hardware.info | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | The Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 5850 is a nice card. Sapphire has it clocked at almost to the maximum permissible by AMD. The beauty is that you could get the guarantee that the card has no problem at these high clock speeds. At these frequencies the 5850 is almost as fast as a normal 5870. The big advantage of the TOXIC lies in the much quieter cooler. We compare the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic with the standard AMD cooler based on Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition, there is a difference of almost 10 dB (A) in noise.
The lower noise and better performance in our opinion the additional cost of around 40 euros over a standard Radeon HD 5850 definitely worth it. Especially when you consider that an entry-level Radeon HD 5870 again an average of 65 euros more expensive than those Toxic | |
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| | Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC gets a Elite Performance Award! | | Elite Bastards | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | That said, there's always room for more performance, and this is where Sapphire's Radeon HD 5850 Toxic comes in, bumping up core and (more notably) memory clock speeds to ramp up frame rates a little further, often doing just enough to push performance up into a higher echelon as far as resolution or anti-aliasing levels are concerned - A fact which makes the factory overclocks on this board a useful feature rather than merely a nice little commodity. This is coupled with yet another fine example of Sapphire's Vapor-X vapour chamber cooling, which never fails to impress and adds an additional layer of desirability to the already impressive hardware that it sits atop.
In short then, there's little more that we can say other than calling this the most impressive Radeon HD 5850-based graphics board we've seen thus far, all for a price point not a million miles away from a reference-based Radeon HD 5850 | |
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| | Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC gets a Performance Award! | | Hardware Heaven | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | Back when we first tested the 5850 we found it to be a card which offered a great balance of price and performance. Sapphire have taken that product, improved the look of the PCB, enhanced the specifications and attached a superior cooler giving us one of the most impressive cards we have ever tested.
In each of the games we tested the Sapphire 5850 outperformed the reference design card by a significant margin and the GTX 285 by more. Playback of high definition content also resulted in good performance which is backed up by a great HDMI audio solution that currently cannot be matched by Nvidia’s high end products, including the more expensive GTX 285.
While media and gaming performance is great we also need to make note of the excellent figures produced by the cooler. The 5850 Toxic runs 40/125MHz faster than the reference ATI design but manages to lower temperatures by 12 degrees Celsius which is a fantastic achievement… but not only that, it remained near silent throughout our testing. | |
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| | Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC gets a Gold Award! | | Hardware Heaven | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD5850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | | Back when we first tested the 5850 we found it to be a card which offered a great balance of price and performance. Sapphire have taken that product, improved the look of the PCB, enhanced the specifications and attached a superior cooler giving us one of the most impressive cards we have ever tested.
In each of the games we tested the Sapphire 5850 outperformed the reference design card by a significant margin and the GTX 285 by more. Playback of high definition content also resulted in good performance which is backed up by a great HDMI audio solution that currently cannot be matched by Nvidia’s high end products, including the more expensive GTX 285.
While media and gaming performance is great we also need to make note of the excellent figures produced by the cooler. The 5850 Toxic runs 40/125MHz faster than the reference ATI design but manages to lower temperatures by 12 degrees Celsius which is a fantastic achievement… but not only that, it remained near silent throughout our testing. | |
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