Testseek.com have collected 22 expert reviews of the HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB PCIe and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB PCIe.
February 2009
Experts 78% 22 Reviews
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The editors liked
AMD/ATIs Radeon HD 4870 (RV770) GPU
Using 55nm Technology
Overclocked GPU @ 770Mhz
Overclocked memory @ 2Ghz (2x1000Mhz)
1GB GDDR5 ram
Excellent performance for the price
Supports Crossfire configuration
800 Processor Stream units
Custom heatpipe...
Exchanges blows with the GTX260 216
beating it in several games.
Excellent aftermarket IceQ 4 cooler keeps GPU temps and noise under control.
Healthy overclock places the card well ahead of a stock HD4850 512MB.
Competitively priced.
Looks great.
Fast
Runs very cool
Quiet
Lots of cool features like DX10.1-support
Stream computing
hardware video acceleration of HD-content
1 GB of GDDR5 memory
Good overclocking potential
Low power consumption
Overclocked out of the box
Stalker Clear Sky full game included
Performance and cooler design
The editors didn't like
So much competition out there
Still no 4870x2 version HIS...cmon pull your finger out!
No bundle to speak of
A bit pricey compared to the 512 MB version
Fan control bug
HD 4870 512 MB offers much better performance/dollar
Abstract: Video Review: The core speed on the HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB Video Card is 770MHz and the 1GB of GDDR5 256 bit memory is 4GHz DDR. Note that a standard 4870 video cards only have a core speed of 750MHz and a memory speed of 3.6GHz DDR. It comes with 800 stream processing units for vertex, pixel and geometry data, 40 texture units and 16 raster operators. The pixel fillrate is 12.3 Gpixels/sec, texture fillrate is 30.8GTexels/s and the memory bandwidth is 128GB/s. Be sure to check out the CrossFire results. Watch the video to find out more...
Clearly, the HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo is a big step up from the NVIDIA 8800 GTX. I realized long before undertaking the review that the results would sometimes be ugly for the 8800, but that was not the point of this review. What we are trying to ill...
The HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo has turned out to be a rather typical Radeon HD 4870 (1GB) graphics card in terms of performance and its physical design. At best users can expect a 3fps boost over standard Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards from the me...
1 GB of GDDR5 memory, Good overclocking potential, Low power consumption, Overclocked out of the box, Stalker Clear Sky full game included
Fan control bug, HD 4870 512 MB offers much better performance/dollar, No support for CUDA / PhysX
The HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo is a solid choice for everybody looking for something that goes beyond HD 4870 reference design. The addition of 512 MB GDDR5 for a total of one gig certainly helps in recent games at higher resolutions. Even though it is f...
HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo is a non-reference HD 4870 card with 1GB of memory. Radeon HD 4870 1GB cards are direct competitors to Geforce GTX 260 cards, and we now know that HIS with its Turbo version of HD 4870, is the GTX 260’s worthy opponent. HIS...
Fast, Runs very cool, Quiet, Lots of cool features like DX10.1-support, Stream computing, hardware video acceleration of HD-content
No bundle to speak of, A bit pricey compared to the 512 MB version
So, what is the verdict when it comes to 1 GB versus 512 MB on a video card? As long as the video card is a fast card, like the HD4870, it clearly is very beneficial to the performance of some games and less benificial in others. The HIS HD 4870 IceQ ...
We had high hopes for the HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo, but sadly they haven’t been fulfilled. Typically, HIS goes out of its way to spice up AMD’s ATI Radeon graphics cards with an improved cooling solution, higher clock speeds and...
Summing up this test session, I want to note that Catalyst 8.7, the first official driver for the RV770-based graphics card series, did not allow the new cards to show their full potential. Particularly, the performance of my card is low in 3DMark Vant...
The conclusion can be quite simple. Of course HIS has another classic in their hands with this ICE4+ Turbo model. Though not perfect, we liked it very much. Next to all the customizations from the PCB to the cooling, it also has a little extra bite ag...
