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Believe it or not - the best just got better. For the first time ever, 2.4 teraFLOPS of graphics horse power, 1600 stream processors and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory have been combined to create the fastest and most powerful graphics card available today. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory 2 x 256-bit memory interface 2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0 support 1600 stream processing units 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
SAPPHIRE HD 4870 X2 2G GDDR5 PCI-E
Redefine HD Gaming 2.4 teraFLOPSof compute power This is the most powerful graphics card available today with nearly two billion transistors and 1600 stream processors. 1 2GB GDDR5 Memory With 2GB of GDDR5, the fastest and most advanced memory technology available today, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 delivers almost two times the memory bandwidth of the previous generation.2 Extreme DirectXR10.1 Performance Play today while preparing for tomorrow with state-of-the-art DirectX 10.1 graphics capabilities.
Unparalleled Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering High performance anisotropic filtering and 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features Superior Scalability with dual mode ATI CrossFireX Technology ATI CrossFireX technology with quad GPU support in dual mode offers superior scalability so you can take your game to new heights.
1 As of August 12th, 2008, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 is the fastest, most powerful graphics card based on the 3DMark Vantage v.101 extreme top score of 6920. 2 The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 with GDDR5 memory has memory bandwidth of 230GB/sec in comparison with the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 with GDDR3 memory with a memory bandwidth of 128GB/sec. 3 AMDs product warranty does not cover damages caused by overclocking, even when overclocking is enabled via AMD OverDrive software.
Go Beyond HD Video Add an ATI Radeon HD 4870 Series GPU to your PC and watch the latest Blu-ray and HD movies play with incredible fidelity upscale to nearly twice the display resolution of HD content.* Take full advantage of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream, picture in picture (PIP) capabilities. Sophisticated new features within ATI Avivo HD technology provide a truly responsive experience. Support for the latest audio visual interconnects ensures you can take advantage of the latest display technology. Unified Video Decoder 2 Unified Video Decoder 2 frees up your CPU for other tasks so you get The Ultimate Visual Experience for even the most processing-intensive content, including VC-1, H.264 and now MPEG-2. Also, take full advantage of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream, picture in picture (PIP) capabilities. Upscale Beyond 1080p Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond. On-chip HDCP On-chip HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) makes life easier by allowing you to playback HDCP protected content.** HDMI Enjoy the latest audio technologies using HDMI with 7.1 digital surround sound support. Also, xvYCC support allows the user to enjoy a wider range of color when connected to a capable HDTV. *Note: HD capable monitor required ** Note: Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system. Break-through Efficiency Dynamic Power Management The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards feature ATI PowerPlay technology and provide the best of both worlds, delivering high performance
when needed and conserving power when the demand on the graphics processor is low.1 Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process Second generation 55nm chip uses the industry's most energy efficient manufacturing process. Best Performance Per Watt The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards deliver up to 2x the performance per watt of the previous generation.2
1 ATI PowerPlay technology consists of numerous power saving features. Not all features may be available in all ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series graphics cards. 2 The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 delivers 8.8 GigaFLOPS per Watt, compared with the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 which delivers 4.8 GigaFLOPS per Watt.
System Requirements PCI ExpressR based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard 650 Watt or greater power supply with one 2x3-pin PCIeR power connector and one 2x4-pin PCIeR power connector is required (1K Watt with two 2x3-pin and two 2x4-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode)1 Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com /certifiedPSUfor a list of Certified products Minimum 1GB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Blu-ray / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive For a complete ATI CrossFireX system, a second ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV Core Clock: 750 MHz and Memory Clock: 900 MHz, 3.6Gbps Stream Processors: 2 x 800 PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 2x 1024MB /2x256bit GDDR5 memory interface Dual Slot Active Cooler HDMI compliant via dongle 7.1 Audio Channel Support Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support Shader Model 4.1 support

Series

PRODUCT POSITIONING
Next-Generation Graphics for HD Gaming and HD Video
PCI Express 2.0 double the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.1

HD 4890 Performance

Vapor-X HD4890 1G GDDR5 (870e/1,050m) Sapphire HD4890 OC 1G GDDR5 (901e/1,000m)
1.20 1.15 1.10 1.05 1.00 0.95 0.90
TOXIC HD4890 1G GDDR5 (960e/1,050m) Sapphire HD4890 1G GDDR5 (850e/975m)
1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8
Designed for Performance and Enthusiast Market
Redefine HD Gaming Powerful TeraScale Graphics Engine delivers cinematic gaming experience Enhanced Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics DirectX 10.1 support displaying life-like graphics ATI CrossFireX Technology up to quad GPU support

HD 4890 OC

HD 4890

GTX 260 Core 216

Go Beyond HD Video Unified Video Decoder 2 with low CPU utilization and full decode for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 HDMI with 7.1 surround sound Support xvYCC color displaying a wider range of colors

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Process Transistors Engine Clock Stream Processors Compute Performance Texture Units Texture Fillrate ROPs Pixel Fillrate Z Fillrate Memory Type Memory Clock Frame Buffer Size Memory Date Rate Memory Bus Memory Bandwidth Maximum Board Power Idle Board Power EXCELLENCE SAPPHIRE HD 4850 55nm 965M 625MHz 800 1.0 TFLOPs 40 25.0 GTexels/s 16 10.0 GTexels/s 40.0 GSamples/s GDDR3 1000MHz 512MB/1GB 2.0 Gbps 256-bit 64.0GB/s 110W 30W SAPPHIRE HD 4870 55nm 965M 750MHz 800 1.2 TFLOPs 40 30.0 GTexels/s 16 12.0 GTexels/s 48.0 GSamples/s GDDR5 900MHz 512MB/1GB 3.6 Gbps 256-bit 115GB/s 160W 90W SAPPHIRE HD 4890 55nm 965M 850MHz 800 1.36 TFLOPs 40 34.0 GTexels/s 16 13.6 GTexels/s 54.4 GSamples/s GDDR5 975MHz 1GB 3.9 Gbps 256-bit 124.8GB/s 190W 60W
Devil May Devil May Call of Juarez Call of Juarez 3DMark 3DMark 3DMark06 3DMark06 Cry 4 Demo Cry 4 Demo DX10 DX10 Vantage Vantage 1920x1200 Default DX10 1920x1200 1600x1200 Extreme Performance 4xAA 8xAF DX10 1920x1200 1600x1200 High 4xMSAA High 8xMSAA
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky DX10.1 2560x1600 2xAA 8xAF
Left 4 Dead DX9 2560x1600 8xAA 16xAF
Far Cry 2 DX10 1920x1200 4xAA 8xAF
Crysis DX10 (High) 1920x1200 4xAA 8xAF
Unigine Demo 3DMark Vantage DX10.1 DX10 1920x1280 Extreme Preset 4xAA 8xAF

HD 4870 Performance

Relative Performance
2.0 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8
19x12 resolution; 4xAA, 8xAF

HD 4850 Performance

HD 4850

HD 4870

GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GTX GeForce 8800 GT

GeForce 8800 GTS

Crysis, DX10

Call of Juarez, DX10

Hellgate: London, DX10

Call of Duty 4, DX9

Half-Life 2: Episode 2, DX9

Prey, OpenGL

Quake 4, OpenGL

Company of Heroes, DX10

3DMark Vantage (Extreme)
Over 1500 World Wide Awards since 2002
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SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 4800 SERIES PRODUCT LINE UP
SAPPHIRE HD4890 ATOMIC SAPPHIRE HD4890 TOXIC SAPPHIRE HD4890 VAPOR-X SAPPHIRE HD 4890 OC SAPPHIRE HD 4890 SAPPHIRE HD4870 X2 SAPPHIRE HD4870 TOXIC SAPPHIRE HD4870 VAPOR-X SAPPHIRE HD 4870 SAPPHIRE HD4850 X2 SAPPHIRE HD4850 TOXIC SAPPHIRE HD4850 VAPOR-X SAPPHIRE HD 4850 SAPPHIRE HD 4850 SAPPHIRE HD 4830

Sapphire design quiet and powerful Vapor-X cooler. Under 30dBA (normal operation)
Stream Processing Memory Bus Units
800 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit

Memory **

1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 2GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB / 2GB GDDR5 512MB / 1GB GDDR5 1GB / 2GB GDDR3

Bus Type

PCI-E 2.0
Engine Clock (MHz) / Memory Clock (MHz) 1,000MHz / 4,410MHz (1,050MHz GDDR5) 960MHz /

Display Support ***

Dual DVI-I / TVO Dual DVI-I / TVO DisplayPort / HDMI / DVI-I / VGA Dual DVI-I / TVO Dual DVI-I / TVO Dual DVI-I / TVO Dual DVI-I / TVO HDMI / DVI-I / VGA Dual DVI-I / TVO Quad DVI-I / TVO Dual DVI-I / TVO HDMI / DVI-I / VGA DisplayPort / HDMI / DVI-I Dual DVI-I / TVO HDMI / DVI-I / VGA

Built-in LED indicator

Air tunnel to blow the hot air out of the chassis
2 ball bearing PWM fan Efficient hurricane heatsink design Sapphire award winning Vapor Chamber efficient cooling syswtem High speed GDDR5 / GDDR3memory Award winning ATI Radeon HD4870 / HD4850 GPU
PCI-E 2.0 4,410MHz (1,050MHz GDDR5)
870MHz / PCI-E 2.0 4,410MHz (1,050MHz GDDR5)
PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0
901MHz / 4,000MHz (1,000MHz GDDR5) 850MHz / 3,802MHz (975MHz GDDR5) 750MHz / 3,600MHz (900MHz GDDR5) 780MHz /
800 + 800 256-bit + 256-bit + 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit + 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit
PCI-E 2.0 4,000MHz (1,000MHz GDDR5) PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0
750MHz / 3,600MHz (900MHz GDDR5) 750MHz / 3,600MHz (900MHz GDDR5) 625MHz / 1,986MHz 675MHz / 2,200MHz 650MHz / 2,000MHz 625MHz / 1,986MHz 625MHz / 1,986MHz 575MHz / 1,800MHz
512MB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 512MB / 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0

SAPPHIRE HD 4890 ATOMIC

SAPPHIRE HD 4890 TOXIC

SAPPHIRE HD 4890 Vapor-X

SAPPHIRE HD 4890
512MB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 512MB / 1GB GDDR3 512MB / 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 PCI-E 2.0
* Specifications subject to change without notice. ** For more memory information, please contact Sapphire authorized dealers near you. *** HDMI output through DVI to HDMI adapter. HDMI carries both video and audio in one single cable. HDTV output through adapter.

SAPPHIRE HD 4870 X2

SAPPHIRE HD 4870 TOXIC

SAPPHIRE HD 4870 Vapor-X

SAPPHIRE HD 4870

SAPPHIRE HD 4850 x2

SAPPHIRE HD 4850 TOXIC

SAPPHIRE HD 4850 Vapor-X

SAPPHIRE HD 4850

SAPPHIRE HD 4830