Sapphire Technology, renowned for its Vapor-X lineup of high performance graphic cards based on VCT (Vapor Chamber Technology), has revealed that the coolers used on its Vapor-X cards had originated from Microloops.

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Japanese website Hermitage akihabara have scored front 3/4th view pictures of Sapphire's Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 in good quality.

Both the HD 5800 series cards are virtually identical from the outside - except for length. The HD 5850 ends up shorter - around 9.5"/24cm, around HD 4870/90 length; the HD 5870 is longer, at 10.5"/27cm length - the same length as a 4870 X2. 

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Sapphire announced the availability of the ATI FirePro™ V7750 Workstation Graphics accelerator for graphics professionals. It has 320 unified shader units and 1GB GDDR3 memories, and features two DisplayPorts and one Dual-Link DVI-I outputs.

Sapphire Japan has confirmed that its Vapor-X line up HD Radeon 4870 and 4850 is set to retail around Mid-March.

Details are as follows.

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 coming from the biggest manufacturer of ATI based graphic solutions comes with two ATI HD 4850 graphic chips which are clocked at 625 MHz and supported by GDDR3 Memory at a clockrate of 1000 MHz. Because of the sheer size of the cooling solution the card comes with a dual slot design.

SAPPHIRE is now shipping a new version of the SAPPHIRE HD 4670 equipped with GDDR4 memory. Clock speeds are 750MHz for the core and 1100MHz (2.2GHz effective) for the memory making this the fastest HD 4670 card available. The card is cooled by a new large diameter fan based cooler which keeps noise levels to the minimum (<20dBA).

Part 2 of the Sapphire graphic cards comparison testing.

We cover game benchmarking and give final thoughts and conclusion.

 

VR-Zone checked out the new Sapphire HD 4850X2 card and done some quick tests on it using the Core i7/X58 platform. The cooler casing looks pretty nice and heatsinks beneath looks much like the Intel reference cooler. The air is drawn in by the dual fans and exhaust out from the top of the card (there is a hole at the top side of the cooler). This card is clocked at 625MHz for the core, 1000MHz for the memories and has 800x2 stream processors.

Sapphire today announced next-generation AMD FireStream 9250™ processor accelerates scientific and engineering calculations, efficiently delivering supercomputer performance at up to eight gigaflops-per-watt. It features 1GB of GDDR3 memory. The FireStream™ 9250 and the supporting SDK are available in beginning of November 2008 while AMD FireStream™ 9170 is currently available for purchase now.

SAPPHIRE is introducing two new graphics families aimed at mainstream users. The new SAPPHIRE HD 4550 has 80 stream processors, core clock speeds of 600MHz and 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz (1.8GHz effective). The SAPPHIRE HD 4350 has a similar architecture, and has the same 80 stream processors and 600MHz core clock speed, but uses the more cost effective DDR2 memory running at 400MHz (800MHz effective). All the other features are similar to the SAPPHIRE HD 4550.