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
Here To Learn More »
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
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
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
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
CROSSFIREX™
New ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology takes your gaming experience
to the next level with more scalability, performance and compatibility.
The technology combines the awe-inspiring capabilities of multiple ATI
Radeon™ graphics cards and an ATI CrossFireX ready motherboard to meet
the hard-core demands of your alternate reality. New ATI Radeon™ HD graphics
cards are designed with an internal ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect
system to simplify installation. Experience stunning visual realism in
today's demanding 3D games with uncompromising image quality, especially
on HD.
Compatible
Cards: Radeon HD 3800 Series Cards
DVI: Digital
Visual Interface! What Is It?
Monitors come supporting different video connector technologies:
VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, or combinations. Not every monitor
supports these, so check the specifications carefully before making your
selection.
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is the
most popular high-quality digital connection for monitors (though HDMI is
quickly becoming its equal in popularity). DVI is a video interface
standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices
such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was
developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).
It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a compatible
monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with the High-Definition
Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).
DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA
standard.
The DVI interface uses a digital protocol
in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data.
When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each
number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each
pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one
pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of
each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical
noise and other forms of analog distortion.
Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based
devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog
source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output
voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used
to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.
The two types of DVI interfaces are Single
Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:
Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel
clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red,
Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.
Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern
LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link
interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6)
twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a
pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. When
you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of its
higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is required
for Blu-Ray playback.
If your Computer supports DVI ports, but
the Monitor does not, then a DVI to VGA adaptor is available at low cost to
solve this. Or inversely, if the Computer output is only VGA, and the
Monitor supports DVI, adaptors are available for this as well.
For our selection of Monitor Adaptors click here »
Dual Monitor
Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes
from using multiple monitors on the same PC. Ironically, many of
today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000)
natively supports dual monitors. Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use
the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a
second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.
Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings,
and you have double the Windows Desktop. This lets you have your
spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.
The combinations are endless. And since most of the overhead is
handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on
system performance. Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most
amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC! Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!
PCI
Express - Delivering Dramatically Improved Graphics
Doubling the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, the new PCI Express represents
the most profound change to desktop architecture in nearly a decade. PCI
Express replaces AGP, allowing much larger amounts of data to move between
the graphics card and the CPU, and will soon replace PCI expansion slots
as well. The PCI standard allows for a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput
of 133MB/s. By contrast, PCI Express will run at 2.5GHz. PCI Express is
a two-way serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs
of point-to-point data lines, compared to the single parallel data bus of
traditional PCI. Gamers will benefit from an incredible upgrade in video
quality with PCI Express, because it will allow for more powerful video
cards, inspiring developers to create more realistic environments that will
make games come alive with astonishingly lifelike colors and images. Video
enthusiasts will also benefit because PCI Express will accommodate higher-quality
video throughput (amount of data you can send per second). As network television
moves over to HDTV broadcasts, PCI Express positions the PC platform for
integration into the living room, while also allowing for HD video editing
and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. PCI Express is compatible with existing
PCI drivers and software operating systems and is designed to co-exist with
current PCI hardware.
PCI
Express 2.0 - High End Graphics Have Arrived
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 while reducing cost.
A number
of optimizations and improvements have been made to the protocol and software
layers of the PCI Express architecture in the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification.
These include:
Dynamic
link speed management – to control the speed at which the link is operating
Link bandwidth
notification – to notify software (operating system, device drivers,
etc) of changes in link speed and width
Capability
structure expansion – to expand the control registers to better manage
devices, slots and the interconnect
Access
control services – optional controls to manage peer-peer transactions
Completion
timeout control – to define a required disable mechanism plus related
optional enhancements
Function-level
reset – optional mechanism to reset functions within a device
Power
limit redefinition – to redefine slot power limit values to accommodate
devices that consume higher power
Video Card Designs
Today's high performance video cards
enable amazing graphics, and frequently come emblazoned with high-impact
graphics, or in brilliant colors. These help to enhance the appeal of
the card. However, from time to time, manufacturers do change these
designs and colors, but this has no effect on the features, specifications,
or performance of the specific video card model, and will usually retain the
same manufacturer's model and part number. The images displayed for a
video card are based upon the sample provided by the manufacturer, and the
specific visual design you receive may vary. So remember, while the
card may look cool, it's the specs that matter!
Will Your
Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...
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.
Close-Up:
PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)
Check
your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus
type.
There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available:
PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)
PCI
- The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between
the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and
RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered
the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI
interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard. Click
here to view our selection of PCI Cards
AGP
- The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed
especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to
8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It
provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one
AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with
an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data
transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1
Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.) Click
here to view our selection of AGP Cards
PCI
Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that
is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers
performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express
connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to
connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come
in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently,
most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming
come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer
must have at least one available PCI Express slot. Click
here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards
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What's In The Box
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due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising.
Please check the product information carefully, items not included
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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 Warranty provided by:
Diamond Multimedia Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
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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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
D10-4870
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Diamond
Radeon HD 4870 Video Card
GPU/VPU:
3.0
5.0
Dynamic
link speed management – to control the speed at which the link is operating
