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HIS & Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB Reviews

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2009-01-06 19:11:07.0


Guru3D and Overclockers Online have reviewed factory overclocked Radeon HD 4870 1GB graphics cards from HIS and Sapphire.

Here's what they had to say:

  • Guru3D: HIS Radeon 4870 ICEQ4+ TURBO 1024MB Review‏:

    "The conclusion can be quite simple. Of course HIS has another classic in their hands with this ICE4+ Turbo model. Though not perfect, we liked it very much. Next to all the customizations from the PCB to the cooling, it also has a little extra bite against the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 cards as it was overclocked slightly.

    What I'm not used to from HIS is a noisy product. To date, all of their products have been silent. And the IceQ4+ cooler therefore caught me off guard a little. Once that GPU gets hot, the RPM rises to ~2500, and exactly at that threshold it really starts to move around a lot of air, making it just as noisy as the reference cooler. The positive here however is that it cools better than the reference cooler. So that was the one thing that did strike me as odd, nothing major or extreme though.

    That aside, we have an eradicator card here. The 4870 ICE4+ Turbo chews up, as you guys have seen, gaming frame rates easily. Thanks to it's design, you can also tweak a little more out of it and yet again gain roughly 10% extra performance."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • Overclockers Online: Sapphire Toxic HD4870 1GB DDR5 Review:

    "Sapphire continues to be innovative and brings new cards to the open market for consumers to pick. Expanding the Toxic family is the 4870 1GB DDR5 card, utilizing 3 heatpipes as part of the advanced Vapor-X cooler. The card from factory overclocked to 780/1000, 30 Mhz faster for the core and 100 Mhz faster on the memory. With recent price drop announcement on the 4870 family by ATi, this card becomes very attractive.

    The card is priced well under the 4850X2 but the real world performance shows that it is just as good as one. The only place you'll notice a difference between the 4850X2 and 4870 is with synthetic benchmarking and on your VISA bill. It's pretty easy to recommend this card to friends and family."


    Click here to read the full review.

When you take into consideration the recent price cuts, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is a great card and it is arguably worth the slight price premium over the 512MB version if you game at very high resolutions.

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