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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC 512MB: a worthy upgrade?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 8 October 2008, 11:49 3.5

Tags: TOXIC HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E, Sapphire, PC

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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Company Of Heroes: OF - 1,680x1,050 - 4xAA 0xAF - DX10
Sapphire HD 4870 TOXICZOTAC GTX 260BFG GTX 260 OCX MAXCOREForce3D HD 4870HIS HD 4850 TurboX
58.2870.3783.5755.5850.68


Company Of Heroes: OF - 1,920x1,200 - 4xAA 0xAF - DX10
Sapphire HD 4870 TOXICZOTAC GTX 260BFG GTX 260 OCX MAXCOREForce3D HD 4870HIS HD 4850 TurboX
48.9458.4869.0646.1342.29


Company Of Heroes: OF - 2,560x1,600 - 4xAA 0xAF - DX10
Sapphire HD 4870 TOXICZOTAC GTX 260BFG GTX 260 OCX MAXCOREForce3D HD 4870HIS HD 4850 TurboX
29.237.2944.5329.825.82


The salvo of GeForce GTX 260s - 192- and 216-core models - eat up Company of Heroes. There's nothing much an overclocked HD 4870 can do in comparison, but gaming is smooth at 1,920x1,200 nonetheless.

Benchmark results at 2,560x1,600 show huge variances between runs, leading to a Force3D Radeon HD 4870 'beating' the TOXIC card - its variances were just that much erratic, so take the results with a pinch of salt.