Testseek.com have collected 14 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB GDDR5 PCIe.
May 2009
(81%)
14 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
The Sapphire Vapor-X 4850 was built by Sapphire to be a mid-range graphics card; in that, Sapphire have definitely achieved. In all the game tests carried out, the 4850 spat effortlessly on everything we gave it to chew on. Moreover, it managed to liv...
Much better cooling and aural performance than on the reference card, Should provide decent gaming with 1,920x1,200 TFT panels, Integrated HDMI is a bonus, A workstation card on the cheap?
Doesnt provide great gaming value for money, Imminent arrival of newer GPUs makes it relatively moot, 2GB framebuffer is wasted on singleGPU Radeon HD 4870
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2,048MB graphics card ships with stock frequencies and is marked out by a non-reference cooler and 2GB frame-buffer. Gamers should look elsewhere for value, but it might just appeal to the workstation crowd.ProsMuch...
Sapphire have taken ATIs reference board as far as possible with the superb 4870 Vapor-X. They have all of the standard Radeon features present such as 7.1 audio over HDMI, Blu-Ray acceleration and DirectX 10.1 but the addition of a brilliant cooler ...
The Radeon HD 4870 is not the newest available card from ATI; the HD 4890 replaced it earlier this year. Performance on the HD 4870 is still excellent for the price. Sapphire went the extra mile with the cooling on the card, rarely going higher than 68...
When Sapphire asked us to take a look at the Vapor-X version of their HD 4870, we thought it was a little odd at first given the HD 4890 was soon to be released, but as mentioned earlier, it still deserves a spot on your list of cards to consider. Toda...
Of course, the relative merits of 2GB of graphics memory is academic, as a reference-design GeForce GTX 275 costs the same as the Sapphire Vapor-X and is faster in all situations bar . In some games the performance advantage is marginal, in others it's...
Sapphire Vapor-X HD4870 2GB is the quietest HD4870 we’ve seen/heard so far. Vapor-X technology is truly a gem as it provides dead silence in 2D and not-so-dead but still silent 3D mode. This was one of the pros we’ve spotted on this card, but...
Abstract: Our today’s test subject is one exceptionally quiet HD4870 with 2GB of memory coming from Sapphire, and it’s well worth noting that this is the first 2GB HD4870 on the market. It’s not a mystery that a lot of consumers rely on higher numbers alone when...
Quiet cooling, fast memory which is big enough for almost any situation and good software equipment are the positive aspects of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB. In comparison to the cheaper but also louder and hotter default HD 4870 1GB the ca...
