Sapphire PURE Innovation - ATI's Chipset for the AMD Enthusiast

ATI Reference Boards

ATI's code name for the single-GPU slot Intel board is Jaguar.

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You will see Jaguar featured on single-GPU designs for Intel Socket 775.

The Dual-GPU version for Intel was developed with the Stingray code name.

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Asus, Gigabyte, ECS, Abit, Sapphire, HIS and TUL will market Stingray as ATI Crossfire Intel.

The single GPU slot AMD solution is code-named Grouper.

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The Grouper was an ATI design for Sapphire, and the Sapphire PURE Innovation evaluated in this review is basically the Grouper design. ATI tells us that several other manufacturers may also market similar single-GPU boards with a full range of overclocking controls to the enthusiast market.

The main focus of this Part 1 is the Sapphire PI-A9RX480, which is essentially the ATI Grouper Reference Board.

The Dual-GPU version for AMD is known by the code name of Halibut.

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MSI, DFI, Gigabyte, Abit, ECS, Sapphire and TUL will market Halibut as ATI Crossfire AMD.