Sapphire HD 4890 Toxic/Vapor-X Review

ccokeman - June 4, 2009
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Model	HD 4890 Vapor-X	HD 4890 Toxic
I/O Output:	Display Port+HDMI+DL-DVI+VGA	Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV
Core Clock:	870MHz	960MHz
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	1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
Cooling	Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler	Dual Slot Vapor-X Cooler with Heatpipes
HDMI Compliance	Native	HDMI compliant via dongle
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 Toxic:

Factory overclocked at 960 MHz.
Industry Leading Vapor-X Technology
1x 6 Pin + 1 x 8 Pin External Power Connector
1 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 performance
PCI Express® 2.0 support
Dynamic geometry acceleration
Game physics processing capability
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology

Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X

Factory overclocked at 870 MHz.
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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
1 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

* Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)

* DVD Upscaling

* Dynamic Contrast

All information courtesy of Sapphire @http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/?lid=1