bit-tech News: Sapphire's ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB Toxic graphics card

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Hi all,

 

We have just published a review of *Sapphire's ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Toxic graphics card*. If you could post a link on your site that would

be very much appreciated.

 

*Link:*

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/02/23/sapphire-ati-radeon-hd-4870-1gb-toxic/1

 

 

*Picture:*

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2009/02/sapphire-ati-radeon-hd-4870-1gb-toxic/fp_img.jpg

 

 

*Quote:

*/Up until this morning though, we'd have agreed with that because the

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB was selling for over £220 - it's hard to

justify what amounts to a five percent performance improvement and a

fancy cooler when the reference one isn't exactly disappointing. But

with the price being realigned to just under £195, we think it's worth

taking the punt if you've decided that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is the

right choice for you.

 

What makes the choice difficult is that the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and

GeForce GTX 260-216 are incredibly well matched not only on price, but

also on performance across the board. Right now, the favour seems to

have tipped AMD's way, but it could quite easily flip the other way when

you consider that of the five benchmarks the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Toxic won against the GeForce GTX 260-216, two of them were by less than

five percent. What's more, it's quite conceivable that some of the newer

titles that we'll be adding to our suite soon could go either way -

neither the Radeon HD 4870 1GB nor GeForce GTX 260-216 are a bad choice

at this price point, frankly./

 

*

 

*Cheers guys!

 

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net