techradar.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:40
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Cant beat them? Then undercut them. Thats the message from AMD about graphics cards. Its the same logic that helped the firm establish its CPU business, and it could work just as well in the world of video. Current pick of the crop is AMDs Radeon H...
Faster than a 4850, Smaller than a GTX 260...
Not earth-shattering performance, Lots of competition...
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itreviews.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:40
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You may think that the Radeon HD4870 is a high-end card with its specifications and features but youd be wrong. AMD wants to give you more bang for your buck and it has certainly succeeded - with bells on - with the HD4870. Its price tag puts in firm...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:41
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This graphics card from Sapphire is the first we’ve seen that uses AMD’s latest version of the RV770 GPU, namely the HD4870.The GPU’s architecture is very similar to the HD4850 we reviewed last month; the cores are 55nm, have 965 million transistors, 8...
Performance; relatively low price...
Cooling fan a little noisy at startup...
Fast performance, but without the high price tag...
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When the Radeon 4850 was launched back in June we found it to be a very competitive product, the first in quite some time from AMD - in fact was able to compete with Nvidia’s models at the same price point. While the two cards have some di...
Price is always a big factor in major component purchases and in this case it really does put a heavy swing in favour of the 4870. From a check at the time of writing it is possible to buy the Radeon for $20 or £20 less than a GTX 260 which is enough...
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Sapphires HD 4870 is the first graphics card weve tested to feature ATIs brand-new flagship Radeon HD 4800 series chips. Alongside its HD 4850 little brother (reviewed here), these cards are reportedly the first to offer a teraflop of computing po...
Sapphires Radeon HD4870 card offers an impressive amount of graphics power at a modest price and, while it wont appeal to the power gamer, its more than enough for most users. Neil Bennett Buy related product: Sapphire RADEON HD 4870 X2 2GB DDR5 75...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated:
2011-09-23 21:55:03
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Having been massively impressed by Sapphires Radeon HD 4850, we couldnt wait to see what its faster sibling, the HD 4870, could achieve. It certainly looks a more powerful card, as it has a large heatsink which takes up two slots. This was one of...
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ATI and their partners have been strategically marketing the HD 4800 series graphics cards, which have been dominating the review scene lately. In fact, because of the power that the HD 4800 series produces, while maintaining a perfect price point, NV...
Price to performance ratio is outstanding, HD video features, Excellent gaming performance, Low power consumption, Great bundle included with the video card...
Low overclocking limits in the CCC, No Sapphire branded overclocking software...
The Sapphire HD 4870 performed exactly where the other HD 4870 cards have been and that is right on top of NVIDIAs GTX 260 series cards. I cannot stress enough the great performance that is being achieved by the HD 4870 cards for the price that it is...
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Sapphires Radeon HD4870 offers an impressive amount of graphics power at a modest price, and while it wont appeal to the power gamer, its more than enough for most users.
Good performance for its price, HDCP support...
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, and while it wont appeal to the power gamer, its more than e...
Sapphires Radeon HD4870 offers an impressive amount of graphics power at a modest price, and while it wont appeal to the power gamer, its more than enough for most users.
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The HD 4870 has been one of the most anticipated releases of the year, next to the GT 200 series from NVIDIA. Its finally time to see what AMD have been doing for the past eight months, and whether or not it was enough to be a serious competitor in th...
Cheap, Performance, Crossfire performance...
Small bundle...
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Given the level of excitement the HD 4850 left, not only with us, but also gamers and enthusiasts all over the world, the HD 4870 quickly became extremely anticipated by people. Will it beat the GTX 260? - How much faster than the HD 4850 is it? - C...
The single HD 4870 does an excellent job at standing its ground, floating around the GTX 260 XXX card we have here today. Like the HD 4850, turning on AA doesn’t cause the card to fall to its knees as was the case with the HD 3800 series of cards of...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-11-27 02:55:01
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With nVidia done with its high-end product launches for this generation, it was obviously time for AMD to fire back. Now most of you would remember that AMD’s previous generation of GPUs were less than stellar and about the only product that got anyon...
Lets wrap things off by first talking a bit about overclocking. We were able to crank the core on this Sapphire all the way upto 890MHz and 1100MHz on the memory. This shot the scores of the GPU from 8666 in 3D Mark Vantage to 10003- about a 15% incre...
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The world was turned upside down with the relesae of the ATI 4870. The price versus performance could not be matched by anything Nvidia had to offer. Well at the time of its launch. Now that Nvidia has found the error in their pricing ways the ratio i...
No longer must we pay $600 plus for a very high performing video card. Sapphire and ATI has made sure of that. With the 4870 using the RV770 GPU chipset the price for a great card is well in reach of almost everyone. It is nice to see someone on a lim...
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In our recent look at the Smooth Creations LanShark, we had the opportunity to put the beast through several system benchmarks, including a few gaming ones, to evaluate its prowess. Smooth Creations made a special request that we have a separate look a...
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Today I’ve got a video card review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB product, though it’s not technically an official review… A couple weeks ago I looked at the SmoothCreations LanShark Gaming system, and it had this card in it, SC asked me to revi...
Runs cool, Quiet while idle, Not bad performance for having 512mb of ram...
Large two slots, Loud under load, Not the best performance...
The Sapphire 4870 512MB card is not a bad choice for a video card, it performs admirably well and runs cool and quiet while in idle. The framerates you’ll get will of course depend on the resolution you’re running and the settings of the game...
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With the recent release of the new ATI 48XX GPUs weve seen something that we havent seen for a while: Ati GPUs in a direct head to head competition with the offerings from NVIDIA. Not only in a price for performance standpoint, like usual, but fro...
Great performance, Over Clocking Ease, DX 10.1, Nice Bundle, Ease of Install, Crossfire Ready, Good Power...
Runs Hot, No Game in Bundle, Ruby Didnt Show Up In Person...
While the GTX-260 turned better numbers in "Synthetic Benches" during gaming, we couldnt tell the difference between it and the Saphire HD 4870. While the higher benchmark numbers are nice, the Sapphire HD 4870 made us just as happy as any of the oth...
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v3.co.uk Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:41
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This graphics card from Sapphire is the first we’ve seen that uses AMD’s latest version of the RV770 GPU, namely the HD4870. The GPU’s architecture is very similar to the HD4850 we reviewed last month; the cores are 55nm, have 965 million transistors...
Performance; relatively low price...
Cooling fan a little noisy at startup...
Fast performance, but without the high price tag...
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modders-inc.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:41
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With the ever changing market for graphics cards it is hard to stay on top. But Sapphire always seems to be able to do this with their cards. They seem to have a good idea of what the end users want. Sapphire introduced their 4850 not long ago and now...
Low price for the outstanding performance, Stylish Red look, GDDR5 RAM, Added extras in the box...
Uh, none...
During the testing we could see that when the anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering was turned up, the Sapphire HD 4870 had a large advantage over the 9800 and later Radeon cards. The Sapphire card is a very exciting graphics card for ATI in that it...
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The Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card may look just like a unit from the HD3870 series, but it is a top of the line model offering a PCI Express X16 interface, a 750MHz core clock, and 900MHz GDDR5 memory which makes things very interesting th...
Solid performance, Performance easily beats HD3870, and usually beats an HD3870 X2, Remains surprisingly quiet, Respectable bundle of accessories, "Free" 2GB USB flash drive, Capable of 4-way CrossFire X...
Hot! GPU idles near 80C, and even plastic on cooler hits 55C, Fan stays relatively quiet, but should be adjusted to provide more cooling, Not very energy efficient, at idle or under a load...
Over the course of this review, the Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card showed that it could outperform a 512MB HD3870 with ease. Improvements of 54%, 66%, and 96% are just a few snapshots of how much better the HD4870 fared in some tests, and...
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For too long now ATI have been playing second fiddle to their arch rival, NVidia. The ATI cards recently, while being very good cards in their own right, have not had quite the impact ATI would have liked and more often that not have fallen short of th...
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...
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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...
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With nVidia done with its high-end product launches for this generation, it was obviously time for AMD to fire back. Now most of you would remember that AMD’s previous generation of GPUs were less than stellar and about the only product that got anyon...
Lets wrap things off by first talking a bit about overclocking. We were able to crank the core on this Sapphire all the way upto 890MHz and 1100MHz on the memory. This shot the scores of the GPU from 8666 in 3D Mark Vantage to 10003- about a 15% incre...
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AMD/ATI has released two new high-end graphics chips recently, Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 4850, known by the codenames RV770 XT and RV770 PRO, respectively. As you can guess by the numbers, HD 4870 provides a higher performance compared to HD 4850 an...
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...
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elitebastards.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:45
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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...
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hi-techreviews.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:47
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A week or so ago we had the opportunity to review the Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 video card and we came away from that review knowing that AMD/ATI had hit a home run with 4800 series cards. Today we are going to be examining the big brother of HD3850, the Sapphire Radeon 4870 (RV770) which features 55nm technology and support GDDR5 memory and least we...
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...
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The HD 4870 has been one of the most anticipated releases of the year, next to the GT 200 series from NVIDIA. Its finally time to see what AMD have been doing for the past eight months, and whether or not it was enough to be a serious competitor in th...
Cheap, Performance, Crossfire performance...
Small bundle...
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The performance of AMDs Radeon HD 4850 surprised everyone – including Nvidia. The 4870 continues the tradition, delivering excellent...
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...
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computershopper.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:52
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AMD must be causing some headaches in the halls of its chief competitor, nVidia. First, AMD ships the ATI Radeon HD 4850, a $199 card that ran neck-and-neck with the nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX, resulting in nVidia significantly dropping the pric...
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...
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Bootdaily.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:55
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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...
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fudzilla.com Updated:
2011-09-23 21:54:57
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GDDR5 leaves quite an impression The day has finally come when ATI is ready to introduce the full power of its RV770 chip. As weve said many times before, RV770 is a DirectX 10.1 chip developed in 55nm with 965 million transistors and most importantly...
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...
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AMD is releasing two new graphics cards with the RV770 today: the Radeon HD 4870 and the Radeon HD 4850; the 4870 will sell for an MSRP of $299 while the 4850 will go for $199. First up is the Radeon HD 4870 - the highest end part being released tod...
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...
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