Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Sapphire HD4870 Toxic

As we know, Sapphire is one of the best manufacturers of the ATI graphics cards. ATI 4870 GPUs always get very hot under heavy load or overclocking ,but in this edition called Sapphire HD4870 Toxic , you can play you games and keep the temperature down thanks to the cooling system " Vapor X". This edition is an overclocked 4870 GPU which running at 780MHz for its core and 1000MHz 4.0Gbps for memory (1GB DDR5) . In real tests it keeps very close to NVIDIA GTX 280 and sometimes beats it specially at high resolutions.In 3D Mark06 Sapphire HD4870 Toxic got 3689 points at 1920x1200 ,but NVIDIA GTX 280 got 3647 points.In Crysis benchmark the Sapphire HD4870 Toxic got 26.8 points at 1920x1200 resolution ,4x Anti-Aliasing and high quality graphics,but NVIDIA GTX 280 got 38.4. Finally,you can see that Sapphire HD4870 Toxic is an exellent choice as it brings all the power needed for extreme gaming at reasonable price compared to Nvidia GTX 280 which is very expensive and gets hot quickly in addition to the great power required to run it.