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RV770: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870

Author Edward Chester
Published 4th Jul 2008
Manufacturer HIS
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Price £199.13 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed £229.00 (Inc VAT)
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Features Score 10 for Features
Performance Score 8 for Performance
Value Score 10 for Value
Overall Score 10 for Overall
RV770: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870
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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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Comment karakaan said on 7th July 2008

Hmmm, thanks ED. The Dell manual's state GPU's upto 150W(supported) so I may be pushing it if you say it draws upto 200W. Upgrading Dell PSU's I don't think is ... more

Comment Ed said on 8th July 2008

Ah, that could be a bit of a problem. Dells are an absolute pig to work with.

Comment Lostbok said on 14th July 2008

^^ wrt the Dell PSU prob - not sure about the Xeon's, some of the midi-tower cases still have the same footprint as a regular PSU, but just proprietary gaps for the kettle lea... more

Comment 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)))

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