Page 1: Intro, Box, Specs
Intro:
Just a few weeks ago, the »Radeon HD 4850 was released and with it came a huge boost of performance for the price. The 4870 is the highend version of the RV770 series of GPU released from AMD. Sapphire provided a card for this review and the Radeon HD 4870 is here.
Box:
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 comes in the standard box with black and red accents. The girl on the box (you know, to attract potential customers which are usually guys) is a Tomb Raiderish looking girl. Sex sells, it's everywhere. Still not seen on the Sapphire box is Linux support which has been included since the release of the 4800 series.
Specs:
In relation to the Radeon 4850, this card is basically the same with a different core speed and much faster memory. The memory itself is GDDR5, a brand new memory technology. It scales just like DDR by sacrificing latency for speed.
Just a few weeks ago, the »Radeon HD 4850 was released and with it came a huge boost of performance for the price. The 4870 is the highend version of the RV770 series of GPU released from AMD. Sapphire provided a card for this review and the Radeon HD 4870 is here.
Box:
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 comes in the standard box with black and red accents. The girl on the box (you know, to attract potential customers which are usually guys) is a Tomb Raiderish looking girl. Sex sells, it's everywhere. Still not seen on the Sapphire box is Linux support which has been included since the release of the 4800 series.
Specs:
- Display Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV
- Core Clock: 750 MHz
- Memory Clock: 900 MHz, 3.6Gbps
- 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
- OpenGL 2.0 support
- HDTV compatibility (YPbPr) yes
- HDMI compliance / HDCP ready HDMI 1.3 / yes
- HDMI modes (over DVI) 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
- Native display support 10-bit
- 3D Graphics Resolution 2560x1600
- TV Out resolution 1024x768 1080i
- Physics support
In relation to the Radeon 4850, this card is basically the same with a different core speed and much faster memory. The memory itself is GDDR5, a brand new memory technology. It scales just like DDR by sacrificing latency for speed.