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Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB TOXIC Video Card
Specifications and Setup
In this review, we'll be comparing the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB Toxic to: A Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Dual A PNY GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB XLR8 A Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Toxic An EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB FTW Both cards were benched on the same test computer with the same drivers (Catalyst 8.4). Test Computer Specifications  Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz Asus Rampage Formula 2GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-12 (Sponsored by Crucial) Thermaltake Toughpower 1000 (Sponsored by Thermaltake) Windows Vista Ultimate x64 (Sponsored by Microsoft)Video Card Specifications Manufacturer's Website The SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC Edition features the award winning - and SAPPHIRE exclusive -Vapor-X cooler, SAPPHIRE’s implementation of Vapor Chamber Technology (VCT). This advanced cooling solution is used for the core logic and together with three heatpipes and thermally controlled fan venting outside the case provides more efficient and quieter cooling than competing solutions for this generation of high performance graphics. The SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC edition ships overclocked out of the box for an immediate high performance graphical or gaming experience, and the advanced hybrid cooling solution provides enthusiasts with further scope for performance tuning. GDDR5 memory/ 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 Avivo™HD video and display technologyUnified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD VideoBuilt-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support On-chip HDCP ATI PowerPlay™ technology I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV Core Clock: 780 MHz Memory Clock: 1000 MHz, 4.0Gbps PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 512MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface Dual Slot Active Cooler HDMI compliant via dongle 7.1 Audio Channel Support Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support Shader Model 4.1 support
Page 1: Introduction, The Card & Bundle
Page 2: Specifications and Setup Page 3: DirectX 10 Titles Page 4: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 5: Video, Power, and Overclocking Page 6: Conclusion 
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