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ATI Radeon HD 4870 review

All the 3D performance you can eat for £200

Our Score 5

Last reviewed: 2008-07-03July 3rd 2008

Price at launch £200.00
Features Interface: PCI Express 2.0
Additional Information GDDR5, Single-slot, six-pin power connectors, CrossfireX support
API Support New DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.0
Graphics Core Clockspeed 750
Graphics Memory (Mb) 512
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 2
Shader Support 800 unified
Video Output Dual-Link DVI, S-Video
GPU ATI
DVI Ports 2

Product Summary

Radeon HD 4870

ATI Radeon 4870

Price at launch

£200.00

For

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80 per cent of the performance of a GTX 280 for half the price

Against

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Not quite the fastest GPU on the planet, runs hot

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