Company: Sapphire
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: November 3rd, 2009

Sapphire
In this article we will examine not only the technology behind Sapphire's vaunted Vapor-X cooling, but the performance hinted at by AMD ATI's upcoming Hemlock - the HD5900.
![]() Sapphire ATi Radeon HD5870 Vapor-X |
Product Highlights
MSRP $399
40nm Cypress core featuring 2.15Bn Transistors
DirectX 11 / Shader Model 5.0 / OpenCL 1.0
870Mhz core with 1600 Stream Processors
2.72TFLOPS Compute Performance
1250MHz 256-bit GDDR5 (5000MHz effective)
PCIe 2.1 Interface (Backwards compatible with PCIe 1.0)
Two 2x3pin PCIe power connectors
Dual DVI output + HDMI and Displayport
27W idle and 188W load power consumption
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