Customer Reviews

Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB DDR5 Dual DVI / TVO PCI-Express Graphics Card

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

When it comes to bang for your buck, you can't beat this card. The thing is a powerhouse. You can run just about any game out there in high resolution (1600x1050) at wonderful quality settings and still get a nice frame rate. This Sapphire card is built very nicely too. You get a temperature monitoring fan and some nice heat pipes to carry the heat away from the chips. Look at any professional review of this card and they'll tell you that it's absolutely worth the price.

The reason I take away one star from my review is because this thing is a power-hungry and space-hungry monster. At maximum, it consumes over 130 watts of power! It takes 2 6-pin PCI-E connectors, is the width of 2 slots on your motherboard and has a length that threatens to consume every last bit of space you have in your case. I had to do some major rearranging inside my case just to get this guy to fit in there, and it's still tight! It also doesn't help that the PCI-E power connectors hang off the back of the card increasing its length by a few centimeters.

It is recommended to have a 500W+ power supply just to keep this guy going, but that is the bare minimum. I would recommend nothing less than 600W or 750W if you plan on running 2 of these in Crossfire. I would absolutely not have the room to fit 2 of these in my case, so Crossfire is really not an option for me.

Back to the card... I am always impressed with the extra adapters and junk that come with ATI cards. You get 2 crossfire adapters, a DVI > VGA adapter and even a DVI > HDMI adapter. Oh, and of course they give you 2 4-pin power connector-to-PCI-E power connectors in case your power supply doesn't have 2. Pretty sweet.

All in all, this is a great card that is easily worth the money, but is not built for the feint of heart. The thing sucks up major juice, space and puts out a ton of heat. I would definitely recommend, but make sure you got the gear to accommodate this beast.

This card is amazing! You will get Blazing graphics coming out form your monitor or HD TV. I'm a gamer and I like to play games at Full Specs, I play Crysis at 1600x1050 with 8x anti aliasing without problems.

Its a big card, so consider your mainboard and PSU, because the card will make some connectors useless.

I have compared with a NVIDIA GFX 260 and I got better performance from the ATI HD 4870.

I have to hand it to ATI...er....AMD....on the launch of this card.

I was doubtful, but wanted to put it to the test. Using 3Dmark, I was able to score over 20k using this card.

System config:
Intel Q6600
XFX 780i Motherboard
Sapphire HD4870
Corsair Dominator
Cosair 750w Power Supply
WD 150GB Raptor
Antec Nine Hundred

I have to admit that the card is pretty large, but so are the GTX series cards from NVIDIA. I had a tough time getting two of these to fit in my NINE HUNDRED case from Antec. Eventually I gave up because I couldn't get two to fit in the case.

So I did what anyone would do who bought two cards, and built another system! (i've got a 3rd car garage filled with parts, it's out of control)

I was surprised at the performance of the card. I play COD4 for atleast 3 hours a day and this card eats it up with no problems.

I have to give big props to Amazon.

I'm starting to buy more and more components from Amazon because of the free shipping, no tax, and they are sharp on price surprisingly!

This card is magnificent, with the new catalyst drivers thus baby runs any new generation game with ease, paired with my new core i7 920 it is more than enough to run crysis at max settings. I plan to buy the second and do crossfire and relax for a while with it's incredible performance.

Wonderfull, Amazing, surpass all my expectation.I can play Crysis without any lag with x8 AA and AF x16 same goes for all high end games, specially Fallout 3.I highly recomend this Video card.

This is an amazing video card for the money. It plays any game i throw at it. I have it hooked up to my 42" Toshiba LCD TV and it looks amazing. When I'm playing a demanding game, I can definitely hear the fan spinning loud, but that is true for any high end video card. Comes with an hdmi adapter so you can transmit sound and video to your tv. Does not come with an hdmi cable so make sure to purchase one or more if thats how you plan on hooking it up. It also comes with a crossfire bridge, which is great because when this gets outdated I can just purchase another one and run it via crossfire.

One thing to keep in mind is that this thing is huge. I have an Antec Twelve Hundred case, which is pretty massive, and this thing still barely fits and almost touches the hard drives. Make sure you have plenty of space and lots of airflow to avoid overheating.

I was deciding between this and the Radeon 4850. I ultimately decided on this one as I'm future proofing myself as much as possible. And the price jump was only about $40-$50 so it was definitely worth it. If you are looking for a powerful gaming card, then look no further. I definitely recommend this.

PS If you can't afford it right now, wait a couple of months, chances are it'll go down in price as the Radeon 4890 came out recently. And prices on video cards seem to be dropping every month or so.

I've had this now for a month, and it's been amazing. I have an older PC, 2006, and don't have PCI express 2.0 slot. But this card has blown away my other cards I've used since I bought my PC. From the reviews, when not used in parallel with another card, there is little performance loss from not running PCI Express 2.0. So, highly recommended for systems that need the best single card performance out there.


Delivery was on time (a day early actually) and in top condition. Worth $99 bucks!

I chose this videocard for replacing my old HD3850, I'm impressive, because now i can play everything in 1680x1050 without any problem with 8x antialising and 16 anisotropic. It play very nice all my HD movies without lag.

This is a perfect match to the ASUS P6T6 MOBO with an Intel I7 965 Extreme Core CPU. Impressive graphics performance.

This card is excellent. I tried GTA IV, fallout 3, Prince Of Persia 2008, Dead Space and Gears of War . If you want a good graphics - like 1600*1200 - for a nice price you should buy this card and relax for a while with it's excellent performance.