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Sapphire Radeon HD4870 review

How does Sapphire's card measure up against the stiff competition?

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2008-08-18August 18th 2008

Interface PCI Express 2.0
API Support New DirectX 10.1
Graphics Memory (Mb) 512
MPN 211330020R
GPU ATI
Features DirectX® 10.1 / 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering / ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support / ATI Avivo™HD video and display technologyUnified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD VideoBuilt-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound supportOn-chip HDCP
DVI Ports 2
Colour Black/Red
Additional Information Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard / PCI Express® 2.0 support / Dynamic geometry acceleration / Game physics processing capability /

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Product Summary

For

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Faster than a 4850

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Smaller than a GTX 260

Against

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Not earth-shattering performance

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Lots of competition

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