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GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 REVIEW

"Gainward Radeon HD 4870 review which we are comparing to the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 is a powerful video card with 800 Shaders for amazing gaming performance. The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 also features advanced GDDR5 memory running at 3600 Mhz DDR which is 45% faster than the Gainward Radeon HD 4850."

GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870

SUPERIOR HARDWARE DESIGN

"AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 (RV770XT): ATI’s powerful new TeraScale graphics engine features deliver high resolution and fast frame rates. Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture: with 800 stream processing units support for dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex and pixel shaders."

ADVANCED FEATURES OF THE 4870

"Gainward’s award Winning Technology and High-Performance / Wide-Bandwidth hardware design powered by 512MB DDR5 version of ATI HD 4870 graphics card. ATI HD 4870, 512MB, Equipped with stunning 750MHz on the core clock and a super fast 900MHz (DDR 3600) MHz on the memory clock, in addition the massive DDR5 512MB /256bits width memory interface size can undoubtedly allow the graphics processors to achieve higher resolutions without running into memory capacity bottlenecks in games. Gainwards ATI HD 4870 series graphics card is definitely the weapon you must have to lead the world of new generation games. Supports two monitors simultaneously, enabled by the ATI Multi-Display Technology for office applications, 3D gaming and professional applications such as CAD, DTP, graphics animation or graphics video editing."

"Gaiwnard´s revolutionary cooling system combines the advantage of high performance cooling, as well advantage of thermal conductivity from heat sink, offers something over and above reference design. ATI Catalyst Software Suite provides a full software solution for supported OS and delivers improved performance, certified stability, and unmatched visual quality, innovative and exciting features that enables users to quickly setup and configure the graphics product. "

"ATI’s CrossFireX Technology: ATI’s CrossFireX technology enables two or more discrete graphics processors to work together to improve system performance. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, CrossFireXTM technology dramatically scales performance on today’s hottest games."

"PCI Express 2.0 Support: Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow’s most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 16 GB/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth(twice that of first generation PCI Express)."

MICROSOFT DIRECTX 10.1 SUPPORT

Shader Model 4.1, 32-bit floating point texture filtering.
Indexed cube map arrays.
Independent blend modes per render target.
Pixel coverage sample masking.
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders.
Gather4 texture fetching.

ANTI-ALIASING FEATURES

Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel).
Up to 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality.
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling.
Temporal anti-aliasing.
Gamma correct.
Super AA (ATI Crossfire configuration only.

TEXTURE FILTERING FEATURES

2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel).
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering.
Bicubic filtering.
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma).
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF).
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support.
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support.

AVIVO HD VIDEO AND DISPLAY PLATFORM

Dedicated unified video decoder 2 (UVD2) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats.
ATI Avivo Video Post Processor.
Two independent display controllers.
HDMI output support.
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration.
On-chip HDCP.
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time.
VGA mode support on all display outputs.

ATI POWERPLAY TECHNOLOGY

Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings.
Performance-on-Demand.
Central thermal management.

GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 CARD

VIDEO CARD GPU CORE
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GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 RV770 760 3600 512MB GDDR5 256 800 10.1
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 RV770 625 2000 512MB GDDR3 256 800 10.1
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MEMORY
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GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE AND BATTLEFIELD 2142
PAGE 3 - MORE GAMES BENCHMARKS AND FINAL RESULT


LATEST REVIEWS

"Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 review which also features the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 has 17% higher clock speed and 45% higher memory speed than the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2."

"The Asus GeForce GTS 250 review also featuring the Pov GeForce GTX 260. The Asus GeForce GTS 250 has a 25% faster clock speed, 1% higher memory speed but the Asus GeForce GTS 250 has 64 less Pixel Shaders."

"XFX Radeon HD 4770 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The XFX Radeon HD 4770 has a 17% higher clock speed, 38% higher memory speed but 20% less Pixel Shaders compared to the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The XFX Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage which is the 128Bit Memory Interface which is half that of the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. How will this effect the performance?"

"BFG GeForce GTX 275 OC review also featuring the Gainward GeForce GTX 275. The BFG GeForce GTX 275 OC is a Factory Overclocked version of GeForce GTX 275 which means that it has a 3% faster clock speed, 2% higher memory speed and 240 Pixel Shaders."

"Gainward GeForce GTX 275 review also featuring the XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Gainward GeForce GTX 275 has a 26% lower clock speed, 42% lower memory speed and 460 less Pixel Shaders compared to the XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Gainward GeForce GTX 275 is going to have to work hard!"

"Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 review which also features the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 has 4% lower clock speed, 30% higher memory speed and an extra 320 Pixel Shaders compared to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage with the 128 Bit memory interface due to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 having a 256 Bit interface. How will this effect performance?"

"XFX Radeon HD 4850 review also featuring the EVGA GeForce GTS 250. The XFX Radeon HD 4850 has 15% lower clock speed, 5% lower memory speed, 800 Pixel Shaders and DirectX 10.1 Support. The XFX Radeon HD 4850 does not have any disadvantages just raw performance!"

"Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT review also features the Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770. The Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT has a 20% lower clock speed, 44% lower memory speed and 528 less Pixel Shaders. The Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT does have an advantage and this is the 256Bit Memory Interface which is twice that of the Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 which uses a 128Bit Memory Interface."

"Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 review also featuring the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. The Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 has a 24% higher clock speed, 44% higher memory speed and the same 640 Pixel Shaders as the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. The Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage which is the 128Bit Memory Interface which is half that of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. Will the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?"

"XFX Radeon HD 4890 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The XFX Radeon HD 4890 has a 11% higher clock speed, 9% higher memory speed and the same 800 Pixel Shaders as the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. This means the XFX Radeon HD 4890 will be atleast 10% faster than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. Another advantage for the XFX Radeon HD 4890 is the extra 512MB Memory which will definately increase game performance."

"EVGA GeForce GTS 250 review also featuring the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+. The EVGA GeForce GTS 250 has a 3% higher clock speed, the same 2200 Mhz memory speed and 128 Pixel Shaders as the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+. This means the only real advantage the EVGA GeForce GTS 250 has over the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+ is an extra 512MB Memory."

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