Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GB PCIe GDDR5

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 17 expert reviews

Excellent:

13
Good:

4
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

High performance 3D graphics.
Unique appearance looks tough.
Runs very cool and very quiet.

Cons:

Availability.
Fan exhausts majority of heated air back into case.

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Last revision on March 1, 2013

Reviewers Liked

High performance 3D graphics
Unique appearance looks tough
Runs very cool and very quiet
Surprisingly energy efficient
Bundle of accessories includes two games
Fastest DirectX 11 compatible graphics accelerator
Consumes only 23W at idle and 220W under full load
Native HDMI 1.3b uncompressed audio and video output
Outstanding performance for ultra high-end games
Eyefinity Technology through DisplayPort

Reviewers Didn't Like

Availability
Fan exhausts majority of heated air back into case
11" Long graphics card may not fit some cases

Expert reviews and ratings

100

The Sapphire Radeon HD 1GB 5870 Vapor-X is refreshingly brilliant offering significantly higher frame rates than previous generation cards and the newer DX11 5850 from the same vendor. These performance boosts are found across the board typically of...

By XSReviews on January 07, 2010

To our knowledge, Sapphire is the only major graphics card vendor employing this technology in the high-end space. While on paper it sounds good, we've tested two of Sapphire's vapor chamber technology offerings in the past (the Sapphire Vapor-X...

By HardwareZone.com on December 22, 2009

Giving any kind of recommendation of the HD 5870 or HD 5850 is tricky at the moment due to continued stock shortages making pre-ordering almost mandatory to secure a card – hardly an ideal situation for consumers, retailers or board partners....

By Bit-tech.net on December 01, 2009

of SSD's (Solid State Drives). These new devices were brought upon consumers, again raising the level of performance we could get from our computers another notch. Just as things seemed to quiet down a little bit, Microsoft threw us a new OS named...

By Bjorn3D on November 16, 2009

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X ReviewReady to pull the trigger on a Radeon 5870 card purchase? Good luck. If you've been shopping for a Radeon 5870 board lately, you know by now how impossible these boards are to find at retailers. No one can keep...

By FiringSquad on November 10, 2009

100

SapphireThe Sapphire HD5850 is borderline CPU limited with a stock AMD Athlon II x4 620 in our test resolution, as evidenced especially when higher quality modes such as 24xAA (Adaptive Edge Detect MSAA) are used. The HD5850 is significantly lower...

By Rage3D on November 10, 2009

Some say that the speed of advancing hardware has slowed down, and while that may be true in some cases, graphics card technology is advancing at a fast rate, and it's proven with AMD's most recent offerings. It's hard to not feel excited...

By Techgage on November 09, 2009

Although our rating and final score are made to be as objective as possible, please understand that each author perceives these factors differently depending on the circumstances. While we do our best to ensure that all aspects of the product are...

By Benchmark Reviews on November 04, 2009

100

The Vapor-X card improves on the 5870 in regards to performance, noise and temperatures as well as providing an extremely good value bundle. One of the finest graphics cards available on the market today. Read more: AMD Roundup November 2009 -...

By HardwareHeaven on November 04, 2009

The AMD Radeon HD 5870 is, arguably, the best consumer graphics card that money can buy right now, but we temper this statement with the knowledge that, over a month on from release, supply remains in considerable constraint.Undeterred by the lack...

By HEXUS.net on November 03, 2009

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