Testseek.com have collected 18 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Toxic Vapor-X 1GB PCIe and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Toxic Vapor-X 1GB PCIe.
July 2009
(89%)
18 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: Sapphire is well known for producing special cards and the Toxic version of the HD4890 is another to add to that list. Stunning performance for the price, with the neat trick of not only being much faster than the standard card, but also much quieter ...
Abstract: We proceed with out low-rating and high-texture ramblings that 3D graphics in games has gone too far from reality. For example, note how programmers and designers try to make their scenes look more 3D-like and distort the perspective. Weve taken two p...
Fast, Good fan, Well packed, Stable, Memory overclocks well
Core overclocking
I think I saw this card selling for 250$ at Newegg which is quite reasonable for this type of card. The new cooling makes it a bit more silent than other cards which is always good. Overall I have been very happy with the performance of it during our...
Abstract: Can you guys believe it has already been 11 months since ATI released their Radeon HD 4870? Time flies and ever since that first review we were convinced that the RV770 GPU empowering this graphics card would become a very nice and much needed success...
The HD 4890 Vapor-X is another all-around great effort from Sapphire. The Vapor-X cooler is a solid performer: not very noisy, and as chilly as the Vapor-Xs arctic box-art alludes to. The bundle is complete -- especially nice to see that HDMI-DVI ad...
Abstract: Sapphire Toxic HD 4890 ReviewTheres an arms race brewing among ATIs board partners. Now that ATI has a GPU that can easily scale to frequencies like theres no tomorrow, ATIs board partners are currently locked in a clock speed war for all the bragg...
Quiet, High default clocks, Voltage control support for memory and GPU voltages, Six Eightpin power connector, Nice aesthetics
Very limited overclocking potential, No support for CUDA / PhysX
It looks like Sapphire has struck gold with their HD 4890 Toxic Vapor-X. The card offers considerably improved performance over the HD 4890 reference design and can beat the GeForce GTX 280. It does all that without being noisy, it is much quieter than...
Exceeds overclocked GTX 285 gaming performance, Costs much less than competing alternatives, Outstanding performance for high-end games, Supports DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.1, 960 MHz RV790 GPU (overclocks to 975 MHz), 1 GB of 1050 MHz GDDR5 vRAM (4...
Fan exhausts some heated air back into case, Maximum postprocessing Anti Aliasing is limited to 8x, 65W power consumption at idle, 316W under load, Expensive premiumlevel product
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The Sapphire HD4890 Toxic edition adds a couple very nice bonuses to the already great HD4890 package, which makes it all that much more tempting. The Toxic edition of this card is not only in the upper echelon of cards in terms of stock core clock, ...
