Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB Review

Specifications:

Model	HD 4890 Vapor-X	HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB
I/O Output:	Display Port+HDMI+DL-DVI+VGA	Display Port+HDMI+DL-DVI+VGA
Core Clock:	870MHz	870MHz
Memory Clock:	1050 MHz, 4.2 Gbps	1050 MHz, 4.2 Gbps
Bus Interface	PCI Express 2.0 x16	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Memory Type/ Quantity	1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface	2048MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
Cooling	Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler	Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler with Heatpipes
HDMI Compliance	Native	Native
Audio	7.1 Audio Channel Support	7.1 Audio Channel Support
Direct X	Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support	Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
Shader Model	Shader Model 4.1 support	Shader Model 4.1 support

 

Features:

 

Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X

• Factory overclocked at 870 MHz.
• Sapphire Patent Pending Black Diamond Choke
• Quite and Powerful Dual Slot Vapor-Chamber Cooler, Under 20 dbA in 2D Operation, under 30 dbA in 3D Operation before 85 degree ℃.
• Solid Capacitors
• 2 GB of GDDR5 memory
• DirectX® 10.1 support
• 800 stream processing units
• 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
• Quad mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance1
• PCI Express® 2.0 support
• Dynamic geometry acceleration
• Game physics processing capability
• ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology2
   * Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video  

   * Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)

    * DVD Upscaling   

  * Dynamic Contrast   

  * Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
• Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology
• ATI Stream technology

 

 

 

 

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