Diamond
Radeon HD 4870 Video Card
Redefine HD Gaming with the Diamond Radeon HD 4870 video card. It delivers a
cinematic gaming experience with unprecedented performance. The powerful new
TeraScale graphics will propel you deep into your gameplay with seamless frame
rates and high resolutions. Enhanced anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering
create striking graphics with unparalleled realism so you can max out the settings
of the most demanding next-generation games or revitalize your favorite titles.
Play today while preparing for tomorrow with tessellation, support for DirectX
10.1 and scalable ATI CrossFireX technology.
TeraScale Graphics Engine - The powerful new TeraScale graphics engine
features deliver high resolutions and fast frame rates.
Enhanced 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.
Power to Spare - This GPU has the brute processing power needed for
physics, artificial intelligence, stream computing and ray tracing calculations.
Redefine HD Gaming
Like its predecessors, the Diamond Radeon HD 4870 Video Card offers optimal
performance and break-through efficiency with platform-independent intelligent
power management. Regardless of platform, ATI PowerPlay™ delivers the power
needed to blaze through even the most intense games while intuitively conserving
energy at idle or when demand is low.
Dual
Monitor Ready
This product supports Dual Monitors and has Dual DVI Ports.
Dual View technology offers multiple display support on up to two separate
monitors. This improves the capabilities and productivity of the user by
allowing them to spread multiple windows over two monitors and view them
simultaneously. Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most amazing productivity
boosters you can add to your PC! Click
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Knowledge
Before You Buy! Make
sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI
Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or
PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully
or call us for expert advice.
ESSENTIAL
SPECS: • Interface Type: PCI Express 2.0 x16 (PCIe
1.0 Compatible)
• Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
• Video Memory: 512MB GDDR5
Detailed Features
DirectX 10.1
Technology
Shader Model
4.1 Technology
Unified Video
Decoder 2 Technology (UVD 2)
AVIVO™ HD
Diamond Radeon HD 4870 VPU Features
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU
Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play
ATI CrossFireX technology with up to quad-GPU support.
TeraScale Graphics Engine
The new TeraScale graphics engine features over one teraFLOPS, nearly one
billion transistors and 800 stream processors so you can enjoy the high resolutions
and fast frame rates previously only available with dual-card systems.
Advanced Memory
GDDR5 memory provides twice the bandwidth per pin of GDDR3.
Enhanced 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.
Enhanced 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.
Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)
UVD 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. (This
may vary depending on your system configuration and video formats.)
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
AVT allows you to convert videos to H.264 and MPEG-2 formats up to 19x faster
than when using a just CPU.3 Full 1080p files can be converted to H.264 and
MPEG-2 up to 1.8x faster than real-time.3
Upscale Beyond 1080p
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display
resolution and beyond. (HD capable monitor
required)
Enhanced DVD Upscaling
Watch standard DVD movies in near high-definition quality with DVD upscaling.
The GPU uses post processing algorithms to enhance standard and low resolution
videos and movies on your HD display.
Dynamic Contrast
Dynamic Contrast automatically adjusts the contrast and brightness during
scenes to consistently deliver a crisp, vibrant picture.
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.
Dynamic Power Management
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series graphics cards deliver high performance when needed
and conserve power when the demand on the graphics processor is low.
More Performance Per Watt
ATI Radeon HD 4800 series delivers up to 2x the performance per watt of AMD’s
previous generation GPUs.
Windows Vista - The Ultimate Experience
The cards GPUs provide total support for the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating
system and improve the performance of the Windows Aero™ graphical interface.
You will be amazed by the dazzling 3D visual effects and have peace of mind
that the ATI Catalyst™ software and drivers are designed and thoroughly tested
to ensure full compatibility and stability to keep you up and running.
PCI Express 2.0 Support
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from
2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance boost
to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications.
It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of a 16-lane link to approximately
16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow product designers to implement narrower
interconnect links to achieve high performance.
Windows
Vista Certified
Have confidence that Certified for Windows Vista products will provide superior
experiences with your videos running the Windows Vista operating system.That's
because only Certified for Windows Vista devices have undergone Microsoft
compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security.
PCI
Express 2.0 Support Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture,
offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games
and 3D applications by maximizing the 5GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth (twice
that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 products are fully
backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest
support.
A Closer Look
Minimum System Requirements
Intel Celeron Dual Core, Pentium Dual Core, AMD 3800+ or higher, 2.0GHz
or faster
1GB of system memory recommended Installation
400 MB Hard Disk space
450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector
recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for dual ATI CrossFireX™)
PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available
Certified power supplies are recommended
Software requires an optical drive DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires a Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect
cable per board (included) are required.
Double slot solution
Specifications
GPU/VPU:
RADEON HD 4870
RAMDAC:
Dual 400 MHz
Additional Features:
RoHS Compliant
HDCP Enabled
HDTV Ready
OpenGL 2.0
Vista Certified
DirectX 10.1
CrossFireX Ready
Game Physics Capable
Vista 3D Environment Support
Maximum Resolution:
2560 x 1600 (Digital)
Video Memory:
512MB
Memory Type:
GDDR5
Memory Interface:
256-bit
Stream Processors:
800
Core Clock:
750 MHz
Memory Clock:
900 MHz
Memory Bandwidth:
161.0GB/sec.
Interface Type:
PCI Express 2.0
Interface Speed:
x16
Connector(s):
VGA (15-Pin D-Sub)
Dual DVI (Dual Link)
HDTV/S-Video
HDMI (w/ Adapter)
Multiple Monitors Support:
Yes
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
4.5
Customer Reviews: 5
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Value
4.4
Features
4.6
Quality
5.0
Performance
4.0
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Reviewer:
tortwren on
Feb 20, 2009 Customer Rating:
3.0
Value
2.0
Features
4.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
1.0
very good quality card. but extreamly bad performance. the screen blank/flash every few second. tried few different version of driver. still the same. went searching on google and seem many people have the same problem. something wrong with ati driver. do not buy this card. the blanking is very annoying.
Reviewer:
Kharnak on
Oct 10, 2008 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
Bang for Buck? yes indeed, it bangs your bucks, making your alot happier for the leftover money you have :D instead of buying more expensive stuff you can go with this and still be happy happy happy.. wee
Reviewer:
Novice ner on
Aug 21, 2008 Customer Rating:
4.5
Value
5.0
Features
4.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
4.0
I read reviews from geek forums, Toms hardware, PC mag and so on...
My personal opinion.
I swapped my EVGA 8800GTS for this ATI card and it runs just as well except when you turn up to Anti-A and crank up the resolution and run it hard. That's when the ATI card shines.
I used the overclocking tool that comes with the software and boosted it up 10% and it made a difference in frame rates but no sacfrice in game play.
This is not the fastest card on the block but it has beef. 161-GB/s bandwith. Compare that to the Nvidia cards. The only one that comes close is the latest and greatest from them but it will cost you $$$.
For under $300 with tax and all, it's a great value.
Reviewer:
Mcspazatro on
Jul 25, 2008 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
This card really does almost beat out the 280GTX. Thanks Albert for the tip on buying this!
Reviewer:
ash on
Jul 22, 2008 Customer Rating:
5.0
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Diamond Radeon HD 4870 Video Card - 512MB GDDR5, PCI Express 2.0 x16, CrossFireX Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, HDMI Support, VGA Support
$194.99*
Manufactured by:
Diamond Multimedia Mfg Part No:
4870PE5512 UPC No:
757448006308 Box Size:
( Length: 12, Width: 4, Depth: 10 )
Shipping Weight:
2.8000 pound(s)
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