Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 (512MB / GDDR5 / PCI-E)

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 (512MB / GDDR5 / PCI-E)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 / PCIe 16x
Manufacturer: Sapphire | Product category: Video cards
GPU? ATI Radeon HD 4870
Interface? PCI Express 16x
Installed memory? 512 MB
Memory type? GDDR 5
Core clock speed 750 MHz
Max. resolution 2560x1600
DirectX 10 Yes
HDCP Yes
Cooling Active cooling (fan)
CrossFire/SLI CrossFire
Max. monitors supported 2
VGA outputs 0
Single link DVI-I outputs 0
Dual link DVI-I outputs 2
Single link DVI-D outputs 0
Dual link DVI-D outputs 0
HDMI outputs 0
VIVO No
S-Video? Yes
Composite? No
Component? No

 
  • GPU (Graphics processor / vendor)

    GPU (short for graphics processor unit) is a dedicated single-chip processor that draws graphics, i.e. creates lighting effects and transforms objects every time a 3D scene is redrawn. These tasks require a lot of calculation and would eat up all too much of CPUs resources. The GPU market is currenly dominated by AMD (manufactures ATI FireGL and the ATI Radeon graphics chips) and NVIDIA (NVIDIA Geforce and NVIDIA Quadro).

  • Interface (Interface type)

    Interface is the connection system between video card and motherboard. The main difference between different interfaces is data transfer speed. PCI and AGP are old solutions, which are increasingly often replaced by faster and more modern PCI Express (PCIe).

  • Installed memory (Installed memory)

    Since graphics operations require lot of memory, video cards have their own dedicated memory reserves. The memory capacity of most modern video cards range from 128 MB to 2.0 GB.

  • Memory upgradeable to (Memory upgradeable to)

    If the memory capacity of the video card is expandable, the maximum supported size of memory is given here (as megabytes, MB).

  • Memory type (Memory type)

    -

  • S-Video (S-Video output)

    -

  • Composite (Composite output)

    -

  • Component (Component output)

    -

  • HDTV via component (HDTV resolution available)

    -

  Rating: 5 / 5 Value for money: 5 / 5

Best card for its price. at 175 or less nothing beats it. Not even the 200$ GTX260. This card when overclocked can reach speeds almost identical to the 250$ 4890. If your building a pc on a budget, this is the best card for under 200$ and performs better than a number of cards over 200$. Ill probavlt stick with this card untill the next generation of cards comes out, the HD58XX series because I dont see any need for an upgrade. This plays almost everything I throw at it on high on my 23" 1080p monitor. I couldnt ask for a better deal.

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