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SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E
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| 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. | | |
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| Specification | | Output | 2 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x TV-Out
| | GPU | 780 MHz Core Clock
55 nm Chip
800 x Stream Processors
| | Memory | 512 MB Size
256 -bit GDDR5
4000 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.
- 450 Watt Power Supply is required.
- 550 Watt Power Supply is recommended for CrossFireX™ System.
- 1 X 75Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector is required.
- 2 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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| | Top Rank Award | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E |  I have to admit, at first I thought that this card would be much like the rest with a slight performance increase and a better cooling solution. But through testing and benchmarking, this card has impressed me with a sizable performance increase, a good overclocking experience and all for a price that at this time is under US$200. Overall, this is a very fast factory overclocked video card that should allow any user to game comfortably with decent resolutions and quality settings. |  |
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| | 5 out of 5 Star | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | Sapphire is one of the more well-known manufacturers of ATI-based video cards, and they have a secret weapon in the world of single-GPU video cards. Sapphire's HD 4870 Toxic card accomplishes what it sets out to do. The performance of this card is phenominal, as it holds its own and even surpasses its closest competitor: and it does it for a few hundred dollars less. The HD 4870 Toxic is a great performer. The 4870 Toxic consumes far less power, is cheaper than, and (in many cases) outperforms nVidia's GTX 280 video card. Given its price point, the 4870 Toxic has some of the best performance for the money, and it is factory-overclocked. | |
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| | Seal of Approval | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic made us just as happy as any of the other tested GPU's in gaming and surfing. Performance wise, between SLI and Crossfire, the scaling that you get with Crossfire has been better in the past and looks to stay that way for the time being. It runs on motherboards that are a lot less expensive than SLI boards, and is the better performer at a better price point for multiple GPU setups. Sapphire and ATI have managed to close a significant portion of the performance gap, and they've done it at a price that enthusiasts will be glad to see. Now for the hard part. Would I recommend one of these to a family member or friend? I’d have to give that a big yes. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | I think it's worth everyone's wait for Toxic. As far as brandings go, anyway. But Sapphire puts so much effort into general improvements over the stock designs.
If you're interested in ATI's best single-GPU video card, and want a quiet--if not silent--4870, without heat issues or overclocking limits, really now you know what your choice has got to be. The bundle has the bases covered, the looks of the card are stellar, and almost every other aspect is improved over the initially-released model. | |
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| | Approved by Techware Labs | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | As all of the many tests we ran should show, the Sapphire 4870 Toxic Edition is quite impressive. It looks sharp and the numbers it puts up look even better. I think without question this card is in the same ballpark as Nvidia’s 200 series of cards, but with a kicker.
The performance blows the older generation of cards out of the water. This card and the 200-series of cards are competing in a totally different ballpark. You won’t be disappointed. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic is not only special for its factory overclock, but its Vapor-X cooler is very powerful and clearly is a superior cooling solution.
HD 4870 is an already great graphics card but with Sapphire bringing forth their Vapor-X cooler, this graphics card just got even better.
With the factory overclock and triple heatpipe cooler, this graphics card will cost more than the other reference models, but only by a small margin. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | I have used the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic for 3 weeks straight now and well it has been a wonderful experience. I have not had one fault or found a flaw under normal use and even under heavy over clocked gaming.
If you do not already have a Sapphire HD 4870 or even if you do I highly recommend that you look at getting the Toxic card as you could use them in CrossFire mode when you want to or just run the faster Toxic when the non Crossfire mode hits you. | |
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| | OCC Gold | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | What is there to say about the Sapphire HD4870 Toxic video card other than it is amazing? I was very surprised to see the benchmarking scores that it was able to produce. I was very pleased to see how well Sapphire paid attention to the little details of the card such as placing a large enough cooling solution on it to keep down the high temperatures the RV770 core has been producing, limiting the overclockability of the cards and the lifespan of them. If you are looking to take the leap away from your older video card to something that is going to be able to give you the performance boost to your entire system, this card is what you should be looking for! I would suggest picking up at least one of these for your next build. | |
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| | Recommended by Club Overclocker | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | I was extremely impressed with the reference HD4870, but the Toxic version is one nice video card. The main issues I had with the reference HD4870 was the heat issue and the overclocking. They both have been addressed in the Toxic version. The Toxic was easily superior in overclocking and cooling.
Overall it's hard to go wrong with this card. Club Overclocker Recommended! | |
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| | Recommended & Gaming Approved by BigBruin | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card takes the already solid performance of ATI's top of the line single GPU solution and ratchets things up a little higher with a factory overclock and a unique cooler.
In terms of single GPU performance the Radeon HD4870 set the bar pretty high, and the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card had its work cut out for it to look much better.
Considering the excellent performance of the card and its cooler, the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card earns the Bigbruin.com awards of "Gaming Approved" and "Recommended". | |
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| | 10 out of 10 Score | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | The graphics were really incredible, and the 4870 had no problem handling everything I threw at it.
Temps on the HD 4870 Toxic were impressive with the Vapor-X cooler, idle temp was 45C, and load temp was 54C. These temps are better than either of my HD 4850s, and both have nice coolers.
The HD 4870 Toxic is a nice video card. Performance is really awesome.
If you're looking for a high-performance card. ThinkComputers awards the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic 512MB Factory Overclocked Video Card a 10 out of 10 score | |
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| | Silver Tachometer Award | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | There's no denying that Sapphire has improved the cooling design of the reference Radeon HD 4870.
In terms of performance, the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Edition usually performed around 30% better than the Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9800 GTX+. In summary, the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Edition is an outstanding product with unbelievable cooling improvements over the stock version. | |
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | Sapphire has become known for it's TOXIC Edition cards which use their Vapor-X cooler with vapour chamber technology for better cooling but this 4870 TOXIC also features three large heatpipes and a thermally controlled fan which run quiet in all of our testing.
I can say from personal experience stock 4800 cards, especially 4850's run too hot out of the box so this is good news from Sapphire and for ATI! | |
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| | Must Have Product | | | SAPPHIRE TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E | | If you have read any of my reviews of all the 4xxx series of cards from Sapphire you will know that I have been very very impressed. And this continues with the Toxic version of the HD4870. The card is extremely fast and has more in the tank when it comes to overclocking for even more performance. The first thing that many of you will reply with is "is this card worth the extra dollars over the reference design?" My response would be yes without any second guessing.
This card overclocked more than the standard model even with it being o'ced from Sapphire. And if that isn't enough this card is quieter than the other as well. You will have to love that feature more than anything. | |
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