Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
90

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Based on 11 expert reviews
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    1
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The vanilla Radeon HD 6850 was the more relevant of the two latest AMD cards, but can Sapphire's HD 6850 Toxic edition make it exciting too?There's one thing you can't criticise Sapphire's Toxic series of overclocked graphics cards for:...

By TechRadar on
93

We've long held the belief that graphics cards coolers are deliberately shoddy to allow the partners of nVidia and AMD to produce something special that would bring them the brand loyalty that everyone from Tesco to Ferrari seek.However, conversely...

By Overclock3D on
95

Today's GPU landscape is good for those looking to purchase, as both AMD and NVIDIA have some great offerings at a variety of price-points. Things will continue to get even more interesting next month with AMD's launch of the Radeon HD 6900...

By Techgage on
100

With the reintroduction of their TriXX overclocking utility Sapphire has given every HD6850 and HD6870 owner the chance to up the performance on their card. Even with that there is still a need for pre-overclocked cards for those who are looking to...

By LanOC Reviews on
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AMD’s HD6850 series was released to a warm public reception, combining great performance, low power drain and very competitive pricing. KitGuru recently reviewed the XFX HD6850 Black Edition and today we are looking at Sapphire’s overclocked...

By Kitguru.net on
100

From the moment a consumer receives the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic the product impresses thanks to an excellent bundle which includes a mini DisplayPort convertor and HDMI cable. This great first impression continues as we find a card which is...

By HardwareHeaven on

With the Radeon HD 6850 TOXIC, Sapphire is marketing a factory overclocked model at the price most other manufacturers are charging for their basic models. It has a big power stage which will prevent overheating during extreme overclocking, but it does...

By BeHardware on

Even though it runs a bit hotter than the other cards we looked at it still performed just as well as they did at its factory over clocked settings. Some others said they were able to get this card over the 1GHz mark; I wasn't able to but it...

By Legit Reviews on

Our previous review covered Saphire Radeon HD 6850 running at reference clocks, whereas our today’s test subject is Sapphire HD 6850 Toxic. As the name suggests, Toxic cards come with Toxic cooling but Sapphire surprised us by using HD...

By Fudzilla on

Sapphire HD 6850 Toxic Edition is the first Sapphire-flavored card from the new AMD HD 6000 series. The HD 6850 Toxic Edition boasts original Sapphire cooling and the card is overclocked for extra performance. The HD 6850 Toxic's GPU runs at 820MHz...

By Fudzilla on