Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC Edition is the higher-end version of the two with 65MHz higher GPU clock frequency and 500MHz higher memory clocks, but the Vapor-X version has also been noticeably overclocked.
Graphics card |
GPU | Memory |
Sapphire HD 5850 TOXIC | 765MHz | 4500MHz |
Sapphire HD 5850 Vapor-X | 735MHz | 4200MHz |
AMD Radeon HD 5850 | 700MHz | 4000MHz |
Both cards sport Sapphire’s own Vapor-X Technology for cooling, which is simply a silent and efficient graphics card cooler enabling up to 15Cº lower GPU temperatures and 10dBA less noise than the reference cooler.
Both cards bring the usual amount of Radeon HD 5800 series features, including DirectX 11, Eyefinity and more. Both cards are available today and cost a few tens over the standard Radeon HD 5850.