Good: Great Performance, Overclocking Ease, DX 10.1, Nice Bundle, Ease of Install, Crossfire Ready, Good Cooling Solution, Competitive With Competitors, Price, Quality
Bad: Exhausts Hot Air into Chassis, No Game in Bundle, ATI Overdrive Software Limits OC
Bottomline: 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...
Bottomline: 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...
Good: Drastically reduces noise, Temperature doesnt rise much, Udating is a simple process
Bad: Card should have shipped this way, , Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions., , « Back :: 1 :: 2 :: Home »
Bottomline: There are many ways to adjust the noise produced by a video cards 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 c...
Abstract: The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic is not only special for its factory overclock, but its Vapor-X cooler is very powerful and clearly is a superior cooling solution. The Radeon HD 4870 Toxic with its 780/1000MHz speeds was faster than the reference Rad...
Bottomline: 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: Despite all of the praise lavished upon AMDs Radeon HD 4870, no graphics board is ever perfect and thus there is always room for improvement somewhere within its design, leaving plenty of room for AIB partners to come along and right any wrongs court...
Good: 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 sett...
Bad: Fan gets loud (but a BIOS update can manage that while letting the GPU get a little warmer), Doesnt always outperform a stock HD4870, Not particularly energy efficient, at idle or under a load
Bottomline: In terms of single GPU performance, the Radeon HD4870 set the bar pretty high, and the Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card had its work cut out for it to do much better. With a factory overclock of 30MHz on the GPU and 100MHz on the memory...
Good: Great performance, Full Bundle, VaporX cooler works very well
Bad: None that I found
Bottomline: I guess you could say that the results were predictable, I know I wasnt expecting any surprises. The HD 4870 performed between 15% and 27% better than the HD 4850. I spent quite a while playing Crysis and Opposing Fronts at the highest settings and 4...
Good: 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...
Bad: 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, Exhausts heated air inside the computer case, Does not appear to be sold in N...
Bottomline: Benchmark Reviews begins our conclusions with a summary rating of different product categories. The first is product presentation, which includes the level or information offered and the interest generated by the product packaging. In regards to Sapp...
Abstract: Sapphires latest addition to its Toxic lineup of graphics cards has arrived at our lab. The new RV770 powered Toxic card is using a Vapor-X cooler and, of course, it is factory overclocked. The new card works at 780MHz for the GPU and comes with 512MB...
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