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August 14th, 2012

Sapphire Does not Cancel Toxic HD 7970 GHZ Edition 6GB

Sapphire Does not Cancel Toxic HD 7970 GHZ Edition 6GB radeon 7970 6gb

Update
Sapphire HD 7970 Toxic 6GB has not been cancelled.

KitGuru

“Rubbish!”, exclaimed Bill with a big smile.
“Production on a card like this will always be limited, because of the tight selection process that every component needs to go though”, he explained. “To ensure that the clocks are stable at the levels our engineers have set for the top end Toxic cards, you will always be limited in terms of how many cards than make at once”.
“We think the rumour started when all of the cards made so far, sold out in every store that was carrying them across the globe”, he said. “In almost every case, the resellers put a message saying ‘Temporarily out of stock’ or ‘Pre-order only’, but one of the largest resellers showed ‘Discontinued’ instead. And that caused a bit of a panic among enthusiasts who really wanted one”.

Original Story:

According to OBR, Sapphire has cancelled the production of 6GB Toxic graphics card.

Card was offered for $699, which was quite high, even for a 6GB card. Since it did not find many owners and the production seemed to be pointless the company has decided to drop this project once and for all.

While the card is still listed on Sapphire website as new, you may find it hard to purchase it. Even Newegg marked the product as discontinued.

Sapphire TOXIC HD 7970 GHz Edition, was the first non-reference card based on Tahiti XT2 GPU. Additionally this was the only Radeon HD 7970 to feature 6GB of memory. Card was so fresh that the reviews of this card are at most a month old.

Let’s take moment of silence for this great graphics card.

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  • http://twitter.com/pixcreion .so

    This and the rest of the $400+ AMD cards.

  • Nigel Harris

    yes so much for the HD7970 ghz edition.

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  • BestJinjo

    You aren’t comparing apples-to-apples though. TOXIC =! GE edition. It was meant to be a limited run for the few users who need 6GB of VRAM for some specific needs. Looks like not many people did. There are plenty of HD7970 Ghz edition cards on Newegg however:

    1) Sapphire Vapor-X
    2) XFX Double D Ghz Edition
    3) Visiontek Ghz edition
    4) Gigabyte Windforce Ghz Edition

    ^ they cost $450-470, cheaper than originally intended $499 MSRP, despite all having upgraded cooling and VRM components, and still including free games.

    It’s interesting that people continue to claim that 7970 Ghz Edition isn’t a real card esp. since recently with latest drivers, HD7970 Ghz > GTX680:

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/radeon-hd-7970-ghz-edition_9.html#sect0

    BTW, the TOXIC was meant to be a competitor to other $650 cards such as the EVGA Classified or MSI Lightning. It was never meant to be a mainstream Ghz Edition card. The Vapor-X is the version of such a card.

  • BestJinjo

    In what way? They have 2 of the fastest cards > $400, the 7970 and 7970 Ghz edition are faster overall than 670 and 680, respectively. Since the latest review in my post below.

  • LedHed

    This just shows how few people are gaming at resolutions that require such a huge amount of VRAM, or want to spend in the ball park of dual GPU cards. Only multi-display setups could possibly even slightly get close to 6Gb and this is a very niche market. Until bezels are removed from monitors and all we have is picture, I don’t think multi-display will really catch on for gaming, even in the high end market.

  • Nigel Harris

    in the way of availability. cant get hold of one in the uk. noboday is saying the HD7970 is a bad card – FAR from it.

  • BestJinjo

    What? I don’t even live in the UK and I can find the GE with a 5 min google search.

    1050 mhz 7970 for 347 pounds
    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3gb-scanfx-radeon-hd-7970-x-edition-5700mhz-gddr5-1050mhz-dvi-i-hdmi-2-x-mini-display-port

    Sapphire Vapor-X 1050mhz for 370 pounds
    http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/12701061/art/sapphire-technology/radeon-hd-7970-vapor-x-gh.html?srcid=9689&CodePromo=oui&clickref=3409517

    Sapphire Vapor-X 1050mhz for 386 pounds
    http://www.ebuyer.com/392962-sapphire-hd-7970-vapor-x-ghz-edition-3gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-11197-12-40g

    That’s 3 different stores…..

    The Vapor-X is probably the best 7970 card right now. Also, because 7970 GE is just a highly binned 7970, MSI Lightning 1070mhz is the same thing exactly, just no GPU Boost. They can be found for 411 pounds or so.

  • skr13

    No Update: Price drop news is already posted :)
    Too much VRAM and Too much Money and very few potential buyers=Descontinued

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  • BestJinjo

    Found at least 3 stores that carry Ghz Editions in the UK…..

  • Frank

    Strange how this site reports the card as discontinued yet all the others say it is still in production?
    I think this info must be false as an interview with sapphire shows..

  • http://videocardz.com/ VideoCardz.com

    I was one of the first to post information about cancellation, but I’m not the one who started it.
    Anyway I cannot follow all the rumors at once, you can always contact me with the update.

  • BestJinjo

    Ya, it’s not your fault. Certain members start fake rumors because they hate AMD .. OBR … cough cough. I still don’t understand why people think you are a journalist or something when this website is clearly a hobby for you. People need to lay off since you are doing this for free.

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