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
forget it also supports DirectX 10.1. Basically the Sapphire HD4800
series is eating Nvidia's lunch.
About
the SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E
The ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU brings the power of
graphics supercomputing to gamers, setting a new standard for visual
computing. Redefine the way you play and take HD gaming to the
extreme with best-in-class performance. The new TeraScale graphics
engine delivers an immersive, cinematic gaming experience. Add this
GPU to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and play HD content with
incredible visual fidelity.* Do it all with break-through efficiency
that doesn't compromise performance.
GDDR5
memory and 256-bit memory interface
DirectX®
10.1
24x
custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance
anisotropic filtering
ATI
CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable
performance
Use up to
four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
PCI
Express® 2.0 support
Dynamic
geometry acceleration
Game
physics processing capability
ATI
AvivoHD video and display technologyUnified Video
Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD VideoBuilt-in HDMI
with 7.1 surround sound supportOn-chip HDCP
