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SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E
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| 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. | | |
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| Specification | | Output | 2 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x TV-Out
| | GPU | 750 MHz Core Clock
55 nm Chip
800 x Stream Processors
| | Memory | 512 MB Size
256 -bit GDDR5
3600 MHz Effective
| | Software | Driver CD
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All specifications and accessories are subject to change without notice. Please check with your supplier for exact offers. Products may not be available in all markets.  | Advanced GDDR5 Memory Technology GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3 memory, delivering more speed and higher bandwidth.
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 | ATI Stream Technology Accelerate the most demanding applications with ATI Stream technology and do more with your PC. ATI Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of compute power locked up in your graphics processer on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone. |
 | ATI Avivo HD (DVD/HD-DVD/Blue-ray Playback) Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder(UVD) |
 | ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology Triple or Quadruple with gaming power withATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology.ATI CrossFireX technology supports up to four graphics cards to be used in a single system. |
 | PCI-Express 2.0 The latest PCI-Express 2.0 specification doubles data throughput from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps allowing you to exploit the full performance potential of your graphics card. |
 | Dual-Link DVI Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI (Digital Visual Interface), this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. |
 | TV-Out Connect the TV OUT connecotor on your graphics card to the devices like TV and PVR, and you are able to have your PC experience on the TV.
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 | Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 With DirectX® 10.1 support you can play the latest HD games with unrivalled visual quality, astonishing realism and ultra-fast frame rates.Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1
►For Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 support, Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 is required. |
 | OpenGL® 2.0 Support OpenGL standard specification defining cross-language. Using OpenGL API to speed up application software,such like Adobe,AutoDesk 2D/3D graphic design.
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 | Shader Model 4.1 Shader Model 4.0 feature set including vertex texture fetch (VTF)-a key feature used in many of today's shipping games. GPUs that don't support this feature will not be able to run these games or will have to default back to Shader Model 3.0, resulting in the loss of cool effects and details made possible by Shader Model 4.0. |
 | ATI Catalyst Control Center™ The ATI Catalyst Control Center™ software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual quality of your SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon™ based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC. |
 | Accelerated Video Transcoding Massively parallel architecture and support for common shader transcoding instructions accelerates video encoding / transcoding way beyond what was possible with the CPU only.
(Requires application support for ATI Stream technology and Digital rights management restrictions may apply) |
 | Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies. (Requires a DVI to HDMI dongle on some models, an HD capable monitor and a Blu-ray drive) |
 | Anti-aliasing features Supports advanced AA (Anti-aliasing) features to maximise your enjoyment of high definition gaming.
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for superior quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
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 | Physics processing support Accelerates the performance of Fluid Dynamics, Cloth Simulation, Soft or Rigid Body Dynamics, Universal Collision Detection, Hair Simulation and Finite Element Analysis for the most lifelike gaming experience. |
 | ATI PowerPlay™ Dynamically manage power efficiency and take control of your performance with AMD’s revolutionary ATI PowerPlay TM power management technology delivering high performance features when needed and conserving power when the demand on the graphics processor is low. This seemless technology dramatically reduces the overall power consumption allowing for break-through energy efficiency. |
 | TeraScale Graphics Engine The TeraScale graphics engine in the ATI Radeon™ features over one teraFLOPS, nearly one billion transistors and numerous stream processors so you can enjoy the high resolutions and fast frame rates previously only available with dual-card systems. |
 | Windows® Vista support Integrate with Windows Vista to deliver the best 3D graphics control.
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- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
- 500 Watt Power Supply is required.
- 600 Watt Power Supply is recommended for CrossFireX™ System.
- 2 X 75Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required.
- 4 X 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required for CrossFireX™ system.
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products.
- 1024 MB Minimum of system memory.
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
- DVD playback requires DVD drive.
- Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive.
- For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second same ATI Radeon™ graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required.
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| | Great Hardware Award by Pureoverclock | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E |  The Sapphire Radeon 4870 is indeed a card that continues to offer excellent performance for he price, even though it's not a freshly new product. It does have the horsepower to produce very playable framerates in just about any game, even at higher resolutions with the eye candy enabled. Boasting great performance for your hard-earned dollar, the Sapphire Radeon 4870 is an excellent option for gamers who are looking to upgrade their performance without breaking the bank.
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Radeon HD 4870 is another great winner from ATI who luckily have brought real competition to Nvidia and not only that have caught them off guard with huge gains and price cuts bringing amazing performance to the sub $200 performance metric.
HD 4870 is definitely an incredibly impressive card that beats Nvidia's best except for the GTX 280, offers more in support and features with Direct X 10.1 support, and all around re-ignites the PC market. Congrats to ATI and we can't wait to see what happens next. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 delivers that raw performance and allows you to run at extremely high resolutions with full AA and AF settings. Gamers looking to buy a card should look no further. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 is as good as it gets for now. The X2 should be pretty impressive, but I doubt it will be even close to this price point (per performance). The 4870 is my choice for a performance video card. | |
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| | Silver Tachometer Award | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | When it comes to ATI products Sapphire has always offered the most influential graphics cards available, and the new Radeon HD 4870 is no different. For the first time in this industry, we have a fully-functional product equipped with 900 MHz GDDR5 video frame buffer.
During Crysis testing with 4x AA added, the Radeon HD 4870 was able to outperform the GeForce 9800 GX2 by nearly 40%, showing a prevailing strength in high-demand post-processing effects.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 is an outstanding product and just as good as the alternative | |
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| | Recommended & Gaming Approved by BigBruin | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | 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 the only way the playing field was leveled was to use two cores as found on an HD3870 X2 card.
Considering the excellent performance in benchmarks and games, the Sapphire Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card earns the Bigbruin.com awards of "Gaming Approved" and "Recommended". | |
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| | Seal of Approval | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | While the higher benchmark numbers are nice, the Sapphire HD 4870 made us just as happy as any of the other tested GPU's in gaming and surfing. When it comes to graphics, Synthetics are good for comparison, but living and gaming with a GPU is really where you want satisfaction. We found that satisfaction with the Sapphire HD 4870.
Sapphire and ATI have managed to close a significant portion of the performance gap, and they've done it at a price that most enthusiasts will be glad to see.
Gaming was pleasurable and trouble-free on the Sapphire HD 4870, and ATI Overdrive made it easy to obtain a decent overclock. | |
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| | Boot Worthy Award | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | There simply is a faster solution for the money than the Radeon HD 4870 – it delivers world-class performance on all accounts, sells for less money than the competition and uses less power in doing so.
Sapphire has a real winner on its hands here and presents a card that I feel is the best graphics card going right now considering cost-to-performance ratio – two of these are cheaper than a 280GTX and beat the crap out of it. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The card's performance is groundbreaking for its price.
Setting a new performance standard in its price range, the Radeon HD 4870 is a purchase that gamers with larger monitors— who don't want to drop more than $600 on a graphics card—won't regret. | |
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| | Editor's Choice Gold Award | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | Wow, just wow, our jaws were on the floor when we saw Assassin’s Creed performance with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870.
The great thing about the Radeon HD 4870 is its performance for the price if it hits at or below the promised $299 retail price point. | |
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| | Golden Award | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | If you have around USD 300 to spend on a video card Radeon HD 4870 is certainly today your best option. As mentioned, it reaches the same performance as GeForce GTX 260 or better, and if you search carefully you can find it being sold cheaper than GeForce GTX 260. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | 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 it's head try to find card that will compete with it. Being a true ATI fan boy I think it is great that the roles have finally been reverse and for now ATI has the best performing and selling cards available today. It may be a bit early to forecast this but if I were picking the top video card of year it would either be the ATI/AMD 3870 X2 or the AMD/ATI HD4870. | |
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| | Recommended by Hot Hardware | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Radeon HD 4850 is generally faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX and right on-par with or somewhat faster than the upcoming GeForce 9800 GTX+ in most applications.
At their respective price points, the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 are extremely strong products.
The Radeon HD 4870's feature set is also very good, its cooler is relatively quiet, and performance is top notch. And dare we say a $300 graphics card represents and excellent value, from a price point perspective? These cards are definitely going to put significant price pressure on NVIDIA's GTX 200 series. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | One of the best things about getting a Sapphire Branded graphics card is all the dang stuff you get with it! I mean most of the time you have to dig you way through plenty of great stuff to finally get to your card.
The Sapphire card is a very exciting graphics card for ATI in that it shows that they could “Take the lead” again.
All my games ran great and with no slow down at all, even when maxed out. In my mind it would be crazy to pass up this card at this current price or even if you wait just a bit for the next price drops. When that happens then you need to grab yourself two of these cards for CrossfireX and then you’ll really get the most bang for you buck. | |
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| | OCC Gold | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | Sapphire HD 4870 comes packed with a lot of extra goodies for us to play with. Let's take a look at what Sapphire puts in the package for us to get the most out of our purchase. Sapphire sweetens the deal with all of the goodies and extras that they include, such as the 2GB thumb drive and full versions of popular software which to me always makes me feel like I am getting a better deal. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | When using anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 had an immediate and significant advantage over the NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX competition and the earlier Radeon HD 3870.
With all of that said, we are very pleased with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB graphics card. This graphics card was introduced with same-day Linux support, superb 2D support compared to NVIDIA on Linux, and the best OpenGL performance we have seen that's able to annihilate the NVIDIA competition when using advanced image quality settings. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | 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.
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 limited budget be able to play Crysis at a high settings and still afford to upgrade other areas of their PC like ram for instance.
The Sapphire HD4870 ran like a bat out of hell.
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| | Hardware Golden Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The ATI Radeon 4870 is remarkable when it comes to really pushing ahead of what’s already achieved. It passed all of our strenuous exams on every difficult benchmark at every resolution with DX 10 and 10.1 enabled games, shows tremendous performance per watt and area, and moreover doesn’t take up a lot of power or make a loud sound during the late nights. You want to game, so do it your way and have fun without worrying about your card. Getting the ATI Radeon HD 4870 is quite possibly one of the best things you will do for yourself in 2008, other than getting off the computer chair and doing something else of course. It will be difficult with this in the house. | |
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