Sapphire HD6850 TOXIC Edition Review
FarCry2, Metro 2033 and Crysis Warhead
Published: 1st December 2010 | Source: Sapphire | Price: £160 |
Far Cry 2
Ubisofts Dunia engined game, Far Cry 2, is a little long in the tooth but still has eye-candy aplenty. Our stock TOXIC just about edges the reference design again, but the overclock is where the real performance is to be had, taking Far Cry 2 at Ultra High settings just past the 60 frames per second barrier.
Metro 2033
Metro follows Unigine in which it can bring most systems to their knees and really needs another card to make the most of it. However once again the Sapphire HD6850 TOXIC Edition really has loads to offer once the card is overclocked and its latent performance unleashed.
Crysis Warhead
Although a game that we've long berated as being poorly optimised, Crysis Warhead was one of the few games that showed any benefit at all when we overclocked the reference card and therefore is the only card on test in which the Sapphire TOXIC doesn't romp home in the top two places. 50 frames per second average from a £168 graphics card anybody? Yeah we think so too. So enough rambling, let's wrap this up.
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Looks like a 470 
Wonderful read as ever, cheers lads
Dont think I would give it gold though as the 460gtx Hawk will deliver slightly more (then oc toxic) and with room to oc for even more. All that for around the same price (in holland).
Please correct me if I'm wrong as all I can do is compare numbers on the net
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