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Exclusive - Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 TOXIC 2,048MB graphics card review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 24 March 2010, 11:31

Tags: Sapphire

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Testing at 2,560x1,600 8x AA

Let's crank up the load by using a 2,560x1,600 resolution and (a somewhat unrealistic) 8x AA setting. We've used only the four highest-performing GPUs here.

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There's nothing in it, folks, as the gains are attributed to the clock-speed rather than frame-buffer.

A 2GB memory footprint is useful in cases the application requires significantly more than 1GB, obviously. Most modern games are designed to fit inside that latter figure, intimating one would need to run three-screen Eyefinity to, perhaps, see a meaningful difference.