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Even the best video cards can be improved beyond belief, something that Sapphire seems quite eager to prove, having created a veritable monster. Long story short, Sapphire brought the Radeon HD 7990 Atomic graphics card to Computex. The board is based on the AMD Radeon HD 7990 "Malta" graphics card, the dual-GPU mo... |
5 June 2013
10:42 GMT |
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Sapphire has begun flooding the market with new motherboards. With Intel Haswell CPUs finally out, that was expected. Here are the first two.
Two of the models that the company brought to the show taking place in Taipei, Taiwan (Computex 2013, June 4-8) are the ATX Pure Platinum Z87A-MA and the micro-ATX Pure Platin... |
5 June 2013
03:02 GMT |
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Corning, the company whose glass is used in all iPhones today, has released a detailed report along with a video demonstration to prove the superiority of Gorilla Glass 3 over sapphire.
It has been widely speculated that Apple will switch to sapphire crystal for the touch-sensing overlay of its iPhone 5S/iPhone 6, b... |
23 May 2013
09:33 GMT |
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Amid rumors of Apple developing a sapphire-based Home button for its next-generation iPhone 5S, a company based in Taiwan that makes sapphire substrate parts has reportedly signed with the Cupertino giant to supply the buttons in question.
Taiwan’s DigiTimes, which on occasion provides accurate information abo... |
16 May 2013
08:29 GMT |
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Sources in Asia which supply parts to Apple have reportedly spilled the beans on the company’s plans to introduce a new type of “capacitive” Home button with the iPhone 5S that is said to bear a fingerprint sensor too. According to TechNews, the enhancement will consist of a non-physical button wit... |
14 May 2013
11:25 GMT |
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A while ago, AMD announced that, as part of its Never Settle free game bundle program, the Radeon HD 7790 graphics card would ship with Far Cry 3 and a 20% discount coupon for Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
Now, Sapphire has announced another deal involving that particular board, one that includes SimCity.
I'm no... |
2 May 2013
03:19 GMT |
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Like everything, LED lights and backlights are made out of resources found in nature or synthesized from materials also found in nature.
Sapphire is something that is essential in the production of this technology, being the substrate on which everything is placed.
The substance is mined from various sites across t... |
27 April 2013
06:59 GMT |
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Today will end with quite a few versions of the AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics card out on sale.
Then again, that isn't quite true. While AMD and a bunch of its partners have all released Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics adapters, none of them had anything unique to contribute.
This, of course, is AMD's ow... |
24 April 2013
11:01 GMT |
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Out of all the graphics cards brands in the world, we wouldn't really have expected Palit to become number one, and we definitely can't claim to have heard of PC Partner all that much, although its Sapphire brand is quite often found online.
In any case, according to Digitimes, these two are currently the ... |
17 April 2013
10:58 GMT |
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Sapphire is one of a whole bunch of companies that joined Advanced Micro Devices in launching the Radeon DH 7790 graphics card.
While AMD has the reference model, its partners have the custom-cooled and, on occasion, the factory-overclocked ones.
Sapphire is joining the ranks of Gigabyte, MSI and HIS, and is defi... |
22 March 2013
08:59 GMT |
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Sapphire, a supplier of graphics solutions based on AMD technology, has announced the HD 7950 Mac Edition, a brand new graphics card for Mac Pro users based on AMD's latest Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The card has 3 GB of GDDR5 memory and provides hardware support for Open GL 4.2, Open CL 1.2, AMD HD... |
19 March 2013
14:21 GMT |
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The image gallery below made it out thanks to SweClockers. Rumors about the AMD Radeon HD 7790 have been going around for weeks, but only now do we have something concrete to look at. The photos show pretty much every relevant physical asset, while the GPU-Z screenshot exposes the specifications. Thus, we can tel... |
16 March 2013
06:10 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 7950 is the second best single-GPU video board from Advanced Micro Devices, so it stands to reason that new versions of it would get attention. Sapphire is the company getting recognized, not just because it made a new version of the board, but because of the nature of said board. The new adapter is c... |
5 March 2013
10:13 GMT |
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A new video card has been launched by Sapphire, one that builds on the design that Advanced Micro Devices used for the Radeon HD 7950.
The card is known as the Radeon HD 7950 3GB with Boost and is just one of four Boost boards.
It has a Tahiti Pro GPU running at 850 MHz (925 MHz with boost) and 1792 Stream Processo... |
7 February 2013
09:06 GMT |
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The Edge HD mini personal computer from Sapphire established itself as the world's smallest fully featured PC in the world, or at least these were Sapphire's words back in 2011 when it launched it.
The newest mini PC to leave Sapphire's labs is called Edge HD4 and is just as small as its predecessor,... |
25 January 2013
07:06 GMT |
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NVIDIA and AMD will both launch a new generation of graphics cards this year, but the time between then and now cannot be allowed to go to waste, which is why products like the new board from Sapphire keep coming out. The new graphics adapter from Sapphire is based on the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition from Advanced Mi... |
21 January 2013
05:22 GMT |
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Sapphire may not have tweaked the performance of the Radeon HD 7870 much when it made the HD 7870 XT with Boost, but it did put its personal touch on the graphics adapter. For those who think the Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 XT with Boost is a custom version of the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, that is incorrect. T... |
20 December 2012
13:31 GMT |
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This week, Sapphire launched two products. One was the Radeon HD 7750 OC Graphics Card we covered yesterday (November 29, 2012) and the other is what we will be looking at today.
Long story short, Sapphire Technologies has introduced a new cooler compatible with central processing units from both Intel and Advanced... |
30 November 2012
15:21 GMT |
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For some reason or another, Sapphire has decided that its newest graphics card would never see the outside of China.
That means that many people will be able to buy the Radeon HD 7750 OC Edition; China's population is huge after all, but also that many won't.
At any rate, the new video card utilizes a ful... |
29 November 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Sapphire has reportedly completed development of a video adapter powered by the new graphics processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices: Tahiti LE, where LE stands for Limited Edition. The amount of information available on the newcomer is small. Which is to say, we only know what the name of the board and the pho... |
27 November 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Saphire released the Mini PC EDGE-HD last year but, just in case you misplaced the original USB with the drivers, don’t worry: we have them on our website. Download them if you need, to ensure your device delivers optimal performance. Sapphire's Mini PC EDGE-HD is a small yet handy, mini PC, perfectly su... |
23 November 2012
07:14 GMT |
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There isn't much to say about the new video card from Sapphire, since it isn't actually different from AMD's regular Radeon HD 7870 GHz model, not counting the cooler.
This might just be a tactic meant to make up for the fact that some HD 7870 GHz edition cards tend to sometimes crash and give a black... |
2 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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The blue screen of death (BSOD) isn't about to lose its status as the most alarming thing that can happen to a PC (short of the hardware combusting for some reason), but it isn't the only type of screen of death, as Sapphire's Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition graphics have proven.
Because of some bad qualit... |
2 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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It doesn’t take a photographer, nor do you need to have any serious artistic inclinations, to notice the incredible level of detail scored by the iPhone 5’s camera. The iSight camera in the iPhone 5 has been designed with superior optical performance. It’s 25 percent smaller than the camera in iPho... |
10 October 2012
05:08 GMT |
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After months of toil on AMD's part, and eager waiting on ours, the Trinity-based range of A-Series accelerated processing units is finally out, which leaves motherboards, or their relative absence, as the only loose end. Fortunately, as was expected, mainboard developers have begun releasing their platforms, a... |
2 October 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card manufacturing partner Sapphire has just announced a new video card powered by AMD’s Radeon HD 7750 GPU. The new card features a single-slot cooling system and a low-profile PCB that is perfectly suited for cramped cases.
The new device completely adheres to AMD’s reference spec... |
31 July 2012
22:21 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card partner Sapphire has now decided to add two more Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 graphics adapters to the company’s custom line of AMD “Tahiti” GHz Edition. The new cards feature more tamed characteristics when compared to Sapphire’s flagship, but they’re nonetheless im... |
26 July 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, by pushing the Radeon HD 7970 to 1 GHz, managed to oust the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 from its top spot, performance-wise, but Sapphire took things further. We'd say that the new board is one step ahead of the curve, if it weren't more accurate to replace step with mile-long leap. Th... |
17 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card manufacturing partner Sapphire is apparently preparing to release three new updated models in the AMD Radeon HD 7850 line of products. Two of these cards will come with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory and one will only sport 1 GB. AMD’s HD 7850 video card design is powered by the company&r... |
10 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card and mainboard manufacturing partner Sapphire has just announced the new Sapphire HD 7870 Flex Edition video card, on its official website. The new addition to Sapphire’s AMD Radeon product lineup comes with dual BIOS and the efficient Dual-X cooling system.
The new card features the ... |
26 June 2012
12:11 GMT |
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We already know that AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 is a very capable GPU and that it currently holds the world record for single-GPU video cards in FutureMark’s 3D Mark 11 Extreme score and Performance score, as we documented here and here. The thing is that Nvidia’s Kepler is quite a lot more efficient tha... |
11 June 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Lately there wasn’t much talk about AMD’s professional line of graphics card. The company seems to lack the will to make its professional solutions more popular unlike Nvidia is doing with their Quadro line.AMD seems to be leaving such marketing and announcements to its partners and Sapphire is happy to o... |
9 June 2012
20:01 GMT |
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The fight for the high sales/low price market segment has been won by AMD for the past year, and the company is getting ready to conquer even a higher percentage of the market. AMD needs huge volumes and it’s likely that the company will have to face shortages this summer, as spreading Brazos 2.0 and Trinity o... |
8 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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HTPCs are often little more than glorified media players with web browsing, but it is perfectly possible to make truly strong compact PCs. All it takes is a strong CPU and a small enough video card.
CPUs are easy to solve. As long as a micro-ATX or mini-ITX motherboard has the required socket, even high-end chips ca... |
8 June 2012
08:37 GMT |
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Sapphire is a well-known video card expert company. Unlike their usual mainboards, Sapphire’s video cards are often original, well-designed, powerful and always reliable. During the Computex 2012 show, the company’s new AMD Radeon HD 7770 video card has been reportedly pictured. What’s differ... |
7 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Sapphire’s motherboards never impressed us with anything but their traditional white PCB color. Now that these aren’t white anymore, we’re forced to analyze the rest of the board to see something interesting. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT Socket FM2 motherboard was reportedly pictured at this ye... |
7 June 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Like a bunch of other companies, Sapphire is attending this year's edition of the Computex trade show.
One of the products on display at its booth is a motherboard equipped with the A75 Hudson chipset.
That's right, the Pure Platinum A75 will act as Sapphire's offering to those consumers who plan o... |
5 June 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Having covered MSI's rather unimpressively priced GeForce GTX 550 Ti video card, we now get to write of a somewhat more powerful adapter.
Sapphire is the company saying its piece this time. It has launched the Radeon HD 7950 Flex Edition.
Featuring a dual-slot, dual-fan cooler, it operates at slightly higher... |
31 May 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Sapphire has stealthily introduced a new motherboard, one that got the name “Pure White” even though there is little to warrant such a moniker.
One would think that a motherboard maker would try to make its product live up to its name at least a little, especially when said name is deliberately flashy. ... |
29 May 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Well-known graphics card expert Sapphire is launching today the Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition video card, on its official website. This is a fast pre-overclocked video adapter that comes with an efficient cooling system. The card is built around AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit ... |
17 May 2012
06:14 GMT |
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Sapphire decided this was a good time for one of Advanced Micro Devices' high-end graphics cards to get new cooling, so it put the Dual-X to work.
Dual-X is a video board cooler that, as its name implies, boasts a couple of fans.
It isn't the most advanced of coolers, but it works just fine as a means to ... |
14 May 2012
08:06 GMT |
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We've already covered a significant number of upcoming 7-Series motherboards, but that doesn't mean that there aren't more of them on their way to stores. In fact, Sapphire has just made its contribution, or at least has offered a glimpse of one mainboard of this type. The product bears the name of ... |
11 April 2012
04:57 GMT |
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6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM would be enough to turn any graphics card into a monster of a video board, but Sapphire gave the Radeon HD 7970 Toxic more than that.
Not only does the controller have a custom PCB, but the company also tossed in a special cooler, with an aluminum heatsink, some extra heatsinks for the side FETs, ... |
3 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Even though the web has been frantic about the Intel Ivy Bridge series of CPUs, makers of motherboards haven't forgotten about Advanced Micro devices or its own chips.
Sapphire is the one making a move in this part of the worldwide market, having created the pure Platinum A55V.
The name may be somewhat mislea... |
27 March 2012
03:36 GMT |
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There is a new graphics card in town, one that Sapphire created based on the Radeon HD 7970 from Advanced Micro Devices, the one that leads its single-GPU collection.
Making an already powerful video card stronger than ever takes a bit of effort and imagination, especially when it comes to cooling.
Sapphire manag... |
15 March 2012
09:36 GMT |
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For a while now, video card makers have struggled to install as much memory as possible in their graphics cards, but Sapphire seems ready to take this game to a whole new level with the 6GB VRAM packing Toxic Radeon HD 7970 it presented during this year’s CeBIT fair.
At a first look, Sapphire’s latest cr... |
7 March 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Sapphire has recently announced that it has updated its product portfolio with the introduction of two new graphics cards based on AMD’s Radeon HD 7870 design, one of these coming with a factory overclocked GPU.
Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by Sapphire, which relies on two high-a... |
5 March 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Sapphire is getting ready to launch a new mini-PC in the company Edge-HD series which will swap the traditional Intel Atom and Nvidia ION graphics combo used in the previous versions of these systems for an AMD Brazos APU. The new Edge HD model was showcased during the recent CES fair and back then Sapphire promised... |
15 February 2012
17:11 GMT |
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With just a few more hours to go until the Radeon HD 7770 becomes official, a picture of an upcoming HD 7770 graphics card built by Sapphire has just reached the web giving us a glimpse at the successor of the popular Juniper HD 5770/HD 6770 solutions.
For this next-gen midrange graphics card, Sapphire decided to go... |
14 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Sapphire, one of AMD’s closest add-in board partners, has just announced the release of two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7950 design, including one factory overclocked model with a 900MHz GPU clock.
Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by Sapphire, the standard clocked versi... |
31 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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