Sapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings:

• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

3DMark 06 is one benchmark that ATI cards do very well in. The dual-GPU cards are the class of the field, but with the single GPU cards the Toxic falls about 400 marks short at 1920x1200.