Sapphire HD 7970 6GB Toxic Edition Review @ Kitguru

This looks like a halfway decent card and with 6GB of video ram to boot.

Last week we had some hands on time with the latest AMD GHZ HD7970. At the end of the day it left us feeling distinctly uninspired. There was no doubt the card was fast, but AMD sadly adopted their ill equipped, painfully loud cooling solution with tiny, single red fan.

We hoped that Sapphire would rectify the sorry state of affairs and today we have their latest HD7970 ‘Toxic Edition’ in our labs, featuring a proprietary dual fan cooler, a staggering 6GB of GDDR5 and a ground breaking ‘lethal boost’ overclock core speed of 1,200mhz.

The cooler is a custom design with dual fans that cool the GPU and memory.  Small heatsinks cover the PWM mosfets and are cooled with blowby air from the primary radiator.  Those of you familiar with the Asus ROG GPUs will recognize the basic design.

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