Testseek.com have collected 31 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X 512MB GDDR5 PCIe 11133-06-40R and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X 512MB GDDR5 PCIe 11133-06-40R.
October 2008
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The editors liked
Fast GDDR5 Memory
Large Cooler
Excellent performance
Looks Great
Build quality
Price
Drastically reduces noise
Temperature doesn't rise much
Udating is a simple process
Factory overclocked GPU and memory
Strong performance in games and benchmarks
GPU temperatures are always reasonable
Bulk of heat is exhausted out the back of the case
Respectable bundle of accessories
Capable of high resolution gaming with high settings enabled
Can be configured in CrossFire X with 3 other cards for an insane experience
Great Performance
Overclocking Ease
DX 10.1
Nice Bundle
Ease of Install
Crossfire Ready
Good Cooling Solution
Competitive With Competitors
Quality
Outstanding Vapor-X cooling performance
Extremely good AA/AF performance for higher-end games
Supports DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0
780 MHz GPU / 1000 MHz GDDR5 vRAM
Features ATI AVIVO Technology
1080p HDMI Audio and Video supported for HDCP ou...
Great performance
Full Bundle
VaporX cooler works very well
Heat Pipe Cooler
Pre OCed
Able to get even more OCing out of it
Included extras
The editors didn't like
Cooling solution could use some work
Availability
Card should have shipped this way
Fan gets loud (but a BIOS update can manage that while letting the GPU get a little warmer)
Doesn't always outperform a stock HD4870
Not particularly energy efficient
At idle or under a load
Exhausts Hot Air into Chassis
No Game in Bundle
ATI Overdrive Software Limits OC
Consumes more power than most other singleGPU products tested
Maximum postprocessing Anti Aliasing is limited to 8x
Fan noise can grow to a noticable level under full load
Abstract: If you run the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic at its default speeds, it doesnt offer enough performance improvement to justify its considerable price hike over a standard Radeon HD 4870. You could buy a stock HD 4870 for £170 and overclock it yourself, althou...
Very quiet cooler in both 2D and 3D, Excellent temperatures when compared to referenceclocked card, GDDR5 memory scaled to a blistering 4.3GHz in our overclocking tests, Decent bundle
35 premium over a regular card will be hard to stomach for some, Pure performance isnt that much greater than a reference card, Competition means that a preoverclocked 1GB card is available for similar money.
Sapphires Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC 512MB elevated frequencies give it around a 6 per cent advantage in most tests when compared to a vanilla card, shown by the difference in aggregate framerates across the four games. Overall performance, then, sits betw...
Abstract: Tutte le schede in prova hanno dimostrato ottime prestazioni garantendo una sufficiente fluidità con i titoli testati. Le differenze tra la...
La Sapphire 4870 Toxic si è rilevata davvero un ottima soluzione per tutti coloro che amano giocare al PC, poichè è in grado di gestire qualsiasi tipo di gioco senza troppi problemi per quanto riguarda le temperature e le prestazioni, questo grazie al ...
zu ziehen, denn der Hersteller Sapphire hat eigentlich nichts falsch gemacht. Andererseits ist Sapphire einer der vorrangigen Produzenten von AMD für Referenzkarten. Dem Hersteller liegen alle Papiere vor, der Hersteller ist über alle mögli...
Sapphire macht mit der HD 4870 Toxic vieles richtig. Eine bessere Kühlung und höhere Taktraten sollen die negativen Seiten der Referenzkarten beseitigen. Trotz alledem, kann sich die Toxic Serie allerdings kaum von einer normalen HD 4870 absetzen. De...
Sapphire Toxic HD 4870(Anklicken zum Vergrößern!) Leistungsmäßig kann sich die Sapphire Toxic HD 4870 trotz etwas höherer Taktraten kaum von einer normalen Radeon HD 4870 absetzen. Die Vorteile liegen viel mehr bei der deutlich wirklungsvolleren und a...
Sapphire startet mit der Radeon HD 4870 Toxic einen weiteren Angriff auf die Riege der modifizierten Radeon-HD-4870-Karten der Konkurrenz und macht dabei prinzipiell vieles richtig. So übertaktet man nicht nur wie die meisten anderen Mitbewerber die...
Abstract: Toxic Edition od Sapphire má ambice stát se po všech stránkách nejlepším Radeonem HD 4870: slibuje nejen účinnější, ale také tišší chlazení, má bohaté příslušenství a je přetaktován již výrobcem. Povedlo se hongkongskému výrobci úplně všechno?Edici Tox...
