Testseek.com have collected 39 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCIe.
July 2008
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The editors liked
Good performance for its price
HDCP support
Cheap
Performance
Crossfire performance
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Youre still going to have trouble with Crysis at 1400x960 using Very High settings! The Final Word Sapphires Radeon HD4870 offers an impressive amount of graphics power at a modest price
After reviewing an HD4870 previously, we were fairly sure that the Sapphire card would give us the similar results, being that, in effect, it is the same card. Sure enough, the Sapphire HD4870 didn't disappoint giving nigh identical results to the previo...
Abstract: Just a few weeks ago, the »Radeon HD 4850 was released and with it came a huge boost of performance for the price. The 4870 is the highend version of the RV770 series of GPU released from AMD. Sapphire provided a card for this review and the Radeon HD...
With so much data presented on previous pages, we think we should summarize our review answering two questions: how is Sapphire HD 4870 compared to Radeon HD 4850 and how is Sapphire HD 4870 compared to its main competitor, GeForce GTX 260, especially ...
Abstract: If I were writing this review when both the Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 260 were at their original launch prices, then concluding this review would have been simplicity itself, allowing me to hit the save button and go and grab something caffeinate...
After we reviewed the Sapphire HD4850 we thought we had seen the best that ATI/AMD had to offer. We found just how wrong we were when we ran our first test with the Sapphire HD 4870. Here is a video card that has Nvidia scratching its head try to ...
For once, our assessment of this Radeon HD 4870 will be simple: It’s an excellent high-end graphics card! With the same architecture and most of the strong points of the Radeon HD 4850, it’s in a higher category performance- and price-wise. Th...
Fast; includes HDMI adapter; excellent hardware video playback acceleration; DirectX 10.1 support
Blocks an adjacent slot; can get loud during extended gaming sessions; requires two power connectors
Setting a new performance standard in its price range, the Radeon HD 4870 is a purchase that gamers with larger monitors— who dont want to drop more than $600 on a graphics card—wont regret. ...
Abstract: What we have here at the end of the day is yet another card that simply beats-up on NVIDIA’s current line-up and will force them to make drastic price reductions. I find this a bit ironic since in his last call with shareholders, NVIDIA CEO...
Sapphires HD 4870 is one impressive card. ATI shows that it can be the leader again. This is the first card to use GDDR5 memory and ATI just added one cool marchitecture to its portfolio. This card continues the 55nm leadership and also supports Direc...
AMDs and NVIDIAs philosophies in GPU design are obviously splitting in a way they havent for several generations of GPUs and it will be interesting to see how that plays out. What matters today is gaming performance for your dollar and AMD has del...
