Company: Sapphire
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: November 10th, 2009
Sapphire
Sapphire is "ATI's largest and best performing partner, worldwide" per Dave Orton, ATI's former CEO. Video board production can reach in excess of 1.8 million units per month, with Sapphire being the major manufacturer for the ATI board used by most tier 1 OEMs worldwide.
The AMD ATI Radeon HD5850 was launched on September 23rd, 2009 along with its big brother the HD5870 - both featuring the world's first DirectX 11 GPUs.
 AMD ATi Radeon HD5850 |
Product Highlights
MSRP - $269
40nm Cypress core featuring 2.15Bn transistors
DirectX 11 / Shader Model 5.0 / OpenCL 1.0
Core Clock: 725MHz with 1440 Stream Processors
2.09TFLOPs Compute Performance
Memory Clock: 1000MHz (4000MHz effective)
Memory Interface: 1024MB 256bit GDDR5
PCIe 2.1 x16 interface (backwards compatible with PCIe 1.0)
9.5” (24cm) length
Dual Slot Cooler with Auto Fan Control
Two 2x3 rear PCIe power connectors
I/O Output: Dual DL-DVII+DP+HDMI, Triple Display Support
27W idle / 170W load power consumption
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