Graphics devil - HD 4870X2

Since I have already published a post about CPU core i7 I am missing here a word about graphic cards. I am going to stay at the top of the market assortment because I believe that is the most demanded among us all isnt it?

ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 is the todays top graphics card with 2 cores and extreme clock speed thanks to new DDR5 type of memory. I am not going to talk much about technical data because that does not really belong here (for technical data visit the link below). However I am going to talk about what can you expect once you buy one of those.

Well simply, there is no game that wont run using HD 4870X2 at least at the moment. Even games like GTA 4, Crysis, Far cry 2 which have the highest requirements today run fluently with stability. The graphics card has integrated 2 gigabites of memory which is actively used while playing the best games. Dont worry you will not fill the whole 2 gigs with todays games and hopefully not for about next year or two. Next great feature of HD 4870X2 is the huge speed at which it operates your requests. The combined clock is 3600 Mhz which is extremely high compared to other models. Dont worry the X2 does not mean that you will have to stick into your PC 2 separate pieces of hardware but it is simply combined into one single card. Requirements of MoBo (mother board) for using this graphics card is that it has to have PCI-E 16x but that wont be an issue since many mother boards have that property already quite a long time.

I would really recommend HD 4870X2 to everyone who would like to boost the newest game titles at the highest level of graphics or to users who encode vids and stuff around it. You wont regret the investment even though the card is not one of the cheapest but the power that you are going to get out of it is absolutely worth buying one.

Some technical data

Core:
Developer: ATI
Graphics chip: Radeon HD 4870 X2
Colling: active
Clock of graphics chip [MHz]: 780
Pixel Shader Engines: 1600
Vertex Shaders: 1600
ROPs: 32
TMUs: 80
Shader Clock [MHz]: 780
Memory:
Memory type: DDR5
Size of memory [MB]: 2048
Clock of graphics memory [MHz]: 3600
Width of memory bus [bit]: 512
API:
DirectX: 10,1
OpenGL: 2,1
Pixel Shader Version: 4,1
Vertex Shader Version: 4,1
Interfaces / ports:
DVI-out
Video-out
PCIE
HDCP
Speed of bus PCIE: 16

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