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 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X 512MB GDDR5 PCIe 11133-06-40R.
October 2008
Experts 88% 31 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
If you have read any of my reviews of all the 4xxx series of cards from Sapphire you will know that I have been very very impressed. And this continues with the Toxic version of the HD4870. The card is extremely fast and has more in the tank when it co...
Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870 card features non-reference dual-slot cooling and higher core and memory clocks. The cooling based on Vapor Chamber technology ensures that the 780MHz core stays up to 28°C cooler than reference 750MHz core. We’re looki...
Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870 card features non-reference dual-slot cooling and higher core and memory clocks. The cooling based on Vapor Chamber technology ensures that the 780MHz core stays up to 28°C cooler than reference 750MHz core. We’re looking ...
Fast GDDR5 Memory, Large Cooler, Excellent performance, Looks Great, Build quality, Price
Cooling solution could use some work, Availability
I have to admit, at first I thought that this card would be much like the rest with a slight performance increase and a better cooling solution. But through testing and benchmarking, this card has impressed me with a sizable performance increase, a g...
Sapphires HD 4870 Toxic card accomplishes what it sets out to do. The performance of this card is phenominal, as it holds its own and even surpasses its closest competitor: and it does it for a few hundred dollars less. PC games are finicky. Some p...
Abstract: Sapphire Toxic HD 4870 512MB ReviewWe’re huge fans of ATI’s Radeon 4800 series GPUs. Both the Radeon 4850 and 4870 rewrote the rules when it comes to performance at their respective price segments, forcing NVIDIA to slash prices on their ...
Great Performance, Overclocking Ease, DX 10.1, Nice Bundle, Ease of Install, Crossfire Ready, Good Cooling Solution, Competitive With Competitors, Price, Quality
Exhausts Hot Air into Chassis, No Game in Bundle, ATI Overdrive Software Limits OC
While the GTX-260 turned in better numbers in basically everything we put it through, during gaming we couldnt tell the difference between it and the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic except of one or two exceptions when the Toxic tossed in a little stutter eve...
Abstract: When the first 4870s came out, I said their only real competition was other 4870s. This is somewhat less true today, as NVIDIA has effectively countered this series by dropping prices on their GTX 200s. But theres still very little differentiation amo...
As all of the many tests we ran should show, the Sapphire 4870 Toxic Edition is quite impressive. It looks sharp and the numbers it puts up look even better. I think without question this card is in the same ballpark as Nvidia’s 200 series of card...
Drastically reduces noise, Temperature doesn't rise much, Udating is a simple process
Card should have shipped this way
There are many ways to adjust the noise produced by a video card's fan, and the official driver packages are finally starting to include controls themselves. For a quick and easy way to tame the roar of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics ...
