The Sapphire proposal, thanks also to the more efficient cooling system, is offered with higher frequencies than the standard: The GPU was set at 870 MHz (compared to the standard 850 Mhz), the memories at 5 Ghz (4.8GHz standard). In order to keep the stability when in use, Sapphire also modified the Vcore tension, going from 1.15V to 1.162V.

The consequences in this case should be seen in the energy consumption, in this case higher, and in the heat produced by the card; in this case, the Vapor chamber technology represents an advantage to the Sapphire proposal. In the next few articles we’ll analyze the card’s behavior and how much overclocking it’s capable of offering.