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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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As I did with my recent GTX 280 review, I'm going to put the whole GPGPU performance debate to one side and concentrate on good ol' gaming performance for now. When more GPU accelerated software becomes available we'll take another look at this hardware.

Our tests use a variety of manual run throughs and automated timedemos but regardless of which test method is used we run through multiple times and ensure results are consistent. The average of our consistent runs is then reported to you. The test setup is as follows:

Common System Components

  • Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770
  • Asus P5E3
  • 2GB Corsair TWIN3X2048-1333C9 DDR3
  • 150GB Western Digital Raptor
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Drivers

  • GTX280: Forceware 177.34
  • Other nVidia cards: Forceware 175.16
  • ATI: Catalyst 8.4

Cards Tested

  • HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870
  • ATI HD 3870
  • nVidia GeForce GTX 280
  • nVidia GeForce 9800 GX2
  • nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX

Games Tested

  • Crysis
  • Race Driver: GRID
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • Call of Duty 4
  • Counter-Strike: Source



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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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