*** Official 4870 reviews thread ***

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Anandtech: http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341
Hothardware: http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI_Radeon_HD_4850_and_4870_RV770_Has_Arrived/
Elitebastards: http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=584&Itemid=31
The nameless one: http://www.*****.net/content/item.php?item=13972
PCPerspective: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=581&type=expert
Arstechnica: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/ati-4800-series-review.ars
Hardware canucks (slow): http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...radeon-hd4870-512mb-graphics-card-review.html
Tweaktown: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1481/sapphire_radeon_hd_4870_in_crossfire/index.html
HardOCP: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUyNCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Firingsquad: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_4850_4870_performance/
Legit reviews: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/734/1/

Looks like ATI win this round with 4850 and 4870, thank god for that. If Nvidia had carried on their domination it would have been poor for all of us.

 

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Indeed, I was really tempted by a GTX280 and Im so glad I waited.

Bit more info on today from fud: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8095&Itemid=1

 

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Sadly I think with the shortage of GDDR5 chips we wont see a 1GB for a few weeks, at the end of the day they can either make 2 512MB cards or a 1GB card.

Just hope we see some UK stock today and the price gouging isnt too rampant


Look at the AA scaling now with 48xx cards, incredible:

The only question is 4870 or 4850 CF, hmm

 

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Ignore crysis IMHO, in the rest of the tests in these reviews the 4870 tends to smoke the competition when taking into account the price.

In summary it beats the GTX260 and comes close to the 280 sometimes even beating it.

I want to see some minimum framerate reviews though.

 

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It's ground breaking if it's £150 yea the 4850 is £120 and probably even less soon so if this is around £230 I don't think it's that amazing seeing as xfire 4850's trounces it and can be had for £240 right now.
Great card but only great because of nvidia overpricing their cards.

You are right 4850 CF destroys it and it's very tempting at ~£250, like others Im thinking 4870 now and add a second later.

 

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The only thing Nvidia have to compete funnily enough is the old 8800GT, in SLI it offers incredible performance and bang for the buck. Shame you need a dogs**t nvidia motherboard.

In Anand's review there is a funny with 48X0CF, can someone explain how they get more than a 100% increase when adding a 2nd card:

 

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Added hardware canucks (Im sure they wont be biased ) and arstechnica reviews

 

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Removed as I wasnt sure if I could say a price I had seen or not on a competitor website.

 

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Prices are up on OCUK, man that's high

 

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Added http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1481/sapphire_radeon_hd_4870_in_crossfire/index.html

 

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Added Hardocp: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUyNCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

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I wonder what a 4870+4850 CF set-up would be like? A nice sweat spot between the two price/performance wise? Surprised no reviews have tried it, or would the 4850 bring the 4870 down so it just ended up the same as 4850 CF? Your single card performance would be good though in games that don't support CF.

+1, Ive been thinking about this combo, I guess it will be possible and am interested to see a review.

 

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With all the positive talk of the CF working pretty well, does that mean the X2/RV700 cards may just proove to be a good buy?

Anything starting 48 is looking like a good buy at the moment. Im sure nvidia will cut the 9800gtx down so it competes with the 4850 though.