Aside from the Hybrid CrossFire or Lucid Hydra multi-GPU coprocessor you don’t see many people delving into mis-matched graphics card pairs since they usually aren’t supported or they’re thought to be an inefficient usage of a high-end gamer’s time. Interestingly the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 seem to pair up quite nicely, given their […]
Read more Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 CrossFireX pushes framerates quite nicely
The latest and greatest graphics chips are more than capable of pushing insane frame rates but are often stymied by less than adequate amount of memory available at higher resolutions. Sapphire’s Radeon 5850 Toxic 2GB video card comes along with more graphics memory than the norm which should help out in those Eyefinity situations. PureOC […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon 5850 Toxic 2GB Video Card loads up on the memory
AMD has been on a bit of a roll with their Radeon HD 5000 series which offers impressive performance and image quality at rather low temperatures but the company always knew that their competition would come at them with something equally impressive. Oddly enough the company’s response to the upcoming Nvidia “Fermi” launch mayjust be […]
Read more AMD Catalyst 10.3a Prepped to boost framerates substantially
The majority of graphics chips tend to go from cradle to grave housed in the same PCB design the chip manufacturer created for it. There’s very little incentive to create something new unless there are obvious cost or performance benefits. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition fancies itself a performance option with its new […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition builds a custom home for its GPU
Putting together a gaming rig used to mean laying down a rather large chunk of cash for the best components that would give you an advantage over the competition…or in some cases just to run that new game that requires insane system resources. Thankfully the mid-range isn’t too far off from the high-end nowadays. The […]
Gaming has come a long way graphics-wise but there’s still quite a ways to go when it comes to the details that would make them truly immersive. One of those somewhat under-represented features is physics modeling which would improve realism…
Read more AMD Hopes to Push "Open Physics"
