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PALIT Radeon HD 4870 512MB Sonic Dual Video Card
 
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Max Slowik
Kurtis
PALIT
Dec. 8, 2008
Specifications and Setup

In this review, we'll be comparing the PowerColor HD 4870 Sonic Dual to:

An PNY GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB XLR8
An Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Toxic
An EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB FTW

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

Bus interface: PCI Express® 2.0
Memory Support: 512MB GDDR5
Memory Interface: 256 bit
Sonic Memory / Core Clock: 3800MHz (950 x 4) / 750 MHz
Turbo Memory / Core Clock: 4000MHz (1000 x 4) / 775 MHz
RAMDACs: 400 MHz
Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 Shader Model 4.1 support
Dynamic geometry acceleration
Game physics processing capability
ATI PowerPlay™ technology
ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology
HDCP capable
HDMI function via dongle

 
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Page 1: Introduction, The Card & Bundle
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Page 3: DirectX 10 Titles
Page 4: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics
Page 5: Video, Power, and Overclocking
Page 6: Conclusion


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