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Sapphire Readying HD 4870 With 2 GB Memory

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W1zzard said:
that pictured board is not the 2 gb 4870. its just a random 4870 sapphire had at their cebit booth.

2 gb doesn't make any sense and sapphire knows this, they will have small quantities to sell them to the e-penis people
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Agreed... Even the 1gb cards over 512mb cards of the 4870 the performance differences except in high resolution situations isn't a whole lot. Going to 2gb is only going to lessen that difference and probably with a nasty price increase also. Seriously by the time that amount of ram is going to do you much good, the card simply wont have the punch.
 
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I suppose there is that to consider. I love and hate Crysis all at the same time. If I didn't enjoy playing it (and want to max out E:TW, Stalker Clear Sky et cetera) then I wouldn't be too bothered about these new cards.
I don't really have an excuse to moan (not that it will stop me) about luxuries, but I have the upgrade itch right now (the 8800GTX has done me proud for a couple of years).
 
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The best part of this card is the power circuitry cooler methinks.
 
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Darknova said:
Interesting. I'm certainly interested in the cooler. I must say I'm impressed by my current Sapphire 4870 (after a dreadful 3870). However 2GB, I don't know, seems a bit much IMO.
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might aswell have it. the Cooler is a nice change from the blower fan type.
 
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ok , last time we talk about 4870 1G and we find there is bit more performance , and now the 2G i think there is no different
 
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 2 GB Vapor-X
DriverHeaven said:
Today Sapphire becomes the first GPU manufacturer to attach 2 GB of DDR5 to a Radeon 4870 making it one of the most impressive models available in terms of paper specifications. They haven’t stopped there however as the card also features their own PCB design and a cooler based on the Vapor-X technology which we have seen on a few of their previous cards.

We are lucky enough to have one of these new cards on our test bench and have run it through a number of real world tests to show exactly how consumers benefit from the increased memory and new cooler.

Is the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2 GB worth the extra money?
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Interesting review. :)
 
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