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indiegames
March 4th, 2010, 06:50
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/500x_bigcard.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/bigcard.jpg)This is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970, and it's apparently the world's fastest production video card. Which it had want to be, with a price tag hovering around the $700 mark.
It's got an overclocked ATI GPU that's running at 850mhz, three large (and surely cosmetic) fans and, as you can see in the middle there, one enormous heatsink. Oh, and it also has 4GB of DDR3 RAM.
So yes. With a 3DMark Vantage (http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmarkvantage/introduction/) score of 22,000, it will run Crysis. Hell, it can probably run Crysis ragged, then read its palms.
The Sapphire Radeon replaces the regular Radeon HD 5970, which had held the title since November 2009 (http://kotaku.com/5408054/hey-its-the-worlds-fastest-graphics-card).
The Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 Is Faster Than Every Other Graphics Card (http://gizmodo.com/5484731/the-sapphire-radeon-hd-5970-is-faster-than-every-other-graphics-card) [Gizmodo] [image credit: fudzilla (http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17873/1/)]


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