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RV770: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 4th Jul 2008 |
| Manufacturer | HIS |
| Price | £199.13 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £229.00 (Inc VAT) |
| Latest Price | Click here |
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Call of Duty 4 has to be one of our favourite games of last year. It brought the Call of Duty brand bang up to date and proved that first person shooters didn't need to have the best graphics, or the longest game time. It was just eight hours of pure adrenaline rush that constantly kept you on edge.
We test using the 32-bit version of the game patched to version 1.4 FRAPS is used to record framerates while we manually walk through a short section of the second level of the game. We find a framerate of 30fps is quite sufficient because, although the atmosphere is intense, the gameplay is less so - it doesn't hang on quick reactions and high-speed movement.
All in-game settings are set to their maximum and we test with 0xAA and 4xAF. Transparency anti-aliasing is also manually turned on through the driver, though this is obviously only enabled when normal AA is being used in-game.



More success for the HD 4870 here. It's again beaten by the GTX 280 but that's the only card it falls behind and, again, it crucially beats out the 9800GTX.
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Lostbok said on 14th July 2008
Lostbok said on 14th July 2008
and thanks for the great review!!
As per DMN's comment, that X1950XTX-GDDR4 (me too!) is suddenly looking really long in the tooth :o)))
TheClown said on 15th February 2009
i have got to get me one of these...
Joseph Middleton said on 24th August 2009
This Radeon 4870 by HIS... It's not mentioned how much on board memory it has...
512MB or 1GB?
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