Thread: Overclocked Radeon hard disk repel 4870 X2 Shoot-Out: ASUS, MSI.

NVIDIA’s and AMD’s graphics board partners generally accept disagreeing comings when issuing factory overclocked versions of each company’s various high-end GPUs. When NVIDIA establishes a novel component for example, their board partners generally accept factory overclocked variations at the ready, and at establish, it’s sometimes lighter to detect overclocked cards than stock mention patterns. AMD’s board partners, still, don’t generally accept the like advance.


When AMD establishes a novel ATI Radeon, the 1st batch of cards to hit generally come the reference pattern to the letter, and custom, factory overclocked patterns don’t come until approximately time later.That’s what occurred with the Radeon HD 4870 X2. At establish, only about all Radeon HD 4870 X2 useable at retail had the exact like characteristics and specifications. But more lately, a elite board partners accept brought in factory overclocked versions that accept the functioning of what is so soon the quickest graphics card useable up a notch.




We’ve really got 2 of them in house, the Asus EAH4870X2 TOP and the MSI R4870X2-T2D2G-OC, and plan to demonstrate you only how much surplus functioning each has to extend over standard reference cards.The specs above list the main characteristics and gains of the RV770 GPU that is the foundation of the Radeon HD 4800 series. Hold in mind, still, that there are 2 RV770 GPUs on Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards, each matched to 1 gigabyte of GDDR5 RAM, for a grand entire of two gigabyte of frame buffer storage.


In our Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 established article, we write at length about the RV770 GPU and in the 4870 X2 piece we explicate how the double GPUs are carried out on the card. Those 2 articles explain lots of the more technical points we won't be becoming into again here.The Asus EAH4870X2 TOP has the like PCB and cooler pattern as other 4870 X2 cards, but Asus puts their own spin on the cooler with a decal boasting a Asian warrior chick besieged by approximately crimson blossoms.