Sapphire HD5970 4GB GDDR5 PCIE Pro Reviews

Sapphire bills this card as the World’s Fastest Graphics Card and with this I agree 100% as the card is overclocked by 175MHz for the core and 200MHz for the memory over the standard HD 5970 which is already a very high performer. The card is faster in every single benchmark except for 3DMark Vantage which is an anomaly. The game plays every game without significant drops in performance across all platforms including DirectX 11 games. If you want the fastest card regardless of the cost the SAPPHIRE TOXIC RADEON HD 5970 4GB GDDR5 PCIE is it bar none. The inclusion of two games COD MW2 and Dirt 2 are a value addition to an already impressive bundle. Sapphire deserves an Editor’s Choice award for all of these and other reasons outlined in the rest of the review.

At this end of the market, though, it arguably isn't about value for money. Sapphire's card is on track to become the quickest you can buy, offering a ridiculous amount of power from a single 12in board. That alone should be enough to win over the hardened enthusiast.

The HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB will hold value at its launch price for the simple reason it's the fastest video card we've ever tested and also because it carries with it not only two games, but two that are actually worth playing, a massive cooler that does a fantastic job of keeping the core temperature down and a monstrous amount of memory.

You can see that there's some serious power on offer from the HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB from Sapphire. There's no denying that the extra power would come more so from the extra MHz on the core and memory rather than the extra RAM, but in creating what they want which seems to be the ultimate graphics card, it's clearly a nice touch.