4870 1GB reviews

[Ares202]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15463&page=1

At an estimated £210, the PowerColor HD 4870 1GB PCS+ is reasonable value for money when both the increased performance and uprated cooler are factored in, but unless 2,560x1,600 gaming is your priority, the 512MB variant, currently available at £182.52, looks to be a better choice - offering the increased clockspeeds and uprated cooler at hardly any premium over the reference design.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/ar...view.php?cid=3&id=2684

By being one of the first to release an overclocked Radeon HD 4870, PowerColor has set the benchmark pretty high for other vendors. Though it is generally a capable performer, there are however, some problems with it - the main issue being its suggested retail price of S$487.

Yes, it does perform better than a comparably priced GTX 260, and yes, it does run really cool. But for S$399, you could get yourself a standard Radeon HD 4870, and while it might have half the memory, you'll be hard pressed to find any noticeable difference in performance unless you insist on running Crysis on the highest settings at 1920 x 1440 or greater.

The Professional Cooling System certainly does the job then, and it'll be interesting to see if rival vendors can go one up on what the PCS has achieved here.

However, if you have your hearts set on an overclocked Radeon HD 4870, you should know that there are more overclocked versions of the Radeon HD 4870 upcoming from other vendors. So a wait-and-see attitude may be the wiser choice. In the meantime, the PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 is just about the best performing Radeon HD 4870 card out there at the moment. That is if you can justify spending that extra S$90 and can tolerate that obscenely loud fan.

the 1gb of memory doesnt really do that much looking at the charts, the 1gb version is overclocked a little too. The reviewers should have done minimum FPS's on the games i think they would be a little higher

The only chart where i can see the 4870 really not keep up is crysis 1920x1440 4aa and the framerate is already down to 14fps on the 1gb version anyway

 

[Foxery]

Neat. They have to market it as "overclocked" to make it faster and justify its existence.

I like how the GPU vendors are marketing 5-6% clock speed as exciting lately. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, how 'bout you?

 

[dennilfloss]

The 1GB Diamond 4870 I have on its way here is not marketed as overclocked. The extra RAM is important for me as my VRAM usage can go over 950MB in Oblivion with extra-detailed textures installed. Plus $299 was a good price.