When everyone thought AMD was sinking into a dark abyss, ATI unveiled their Radeon HD 4000 series and proved the critics all wrong. The Radeon HD 4870 is their current single-GPU flagship, and it’s earned a high level of well-deserved distinction. Palit has followed-up this pattern by adding some stand-out features of their own. Benchmark [...]

When you think of Crossfire what is the first thing you think of? Performance? Price? Driver issues? Well, if we were back in 2005 when Crossfire was first introduced as a competitor to NVIDIA’s SLI, you would have probably said “frustration”. Back then, Crossfire was a mishmash of ultra-expensive “Crossfire Edition” cards, wonky external cable [...]

AMD’s new HD4800 GPU’s have created quite a stir in the computer world. Offering great performance for a low price they have managed to get NVIDIA to cut their prices on most of their new cards just to get in line with AMD’s new offerings. While the HD4850 is a nice card it is the HD4870 [...]

“The Radeon HD 4800 series video cards are currently available in three flavors; the 4850, 4870 and 4870 X2. The single GPU HIS HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Video Card is based on the RV770 core which is built on the 55 nanometer manufacturing process and has 956 million transistors. The core speed on this product [...]

The introduction of the new graphics card series from NVIDIA and AMD’s graphics department ATI was a success in many respects. First, it changed our notions about graphics card performance. Second, there were price cuts concerning previous-generation graphics hardware. And third, the competition between the two main market players became tougher. In fact, ATI and [...]

The past two weeks are going into my book as graphics mayhem. A lot has happened and most certainly a lot has changed. In all that mayhem and uncontrollable number of reviews we added a new review partner to our website. I dropped their name already a couple of times yet with this article I’d [...]

ATI suffered a huge setback when it launched the HD 2900XT in 2007. They managed to adapt the design that went into the HD 2900XT and turned themselves around with the launch of the HD 3870 in 2008 and they have kept on fine-tuning this design. Their efforts have been well rewarded with the launch [...]

Last week saw the introduction of the HD 4800 series from AMD/ATI, and the reverberations from that release are still resounding across the web. Reviewing the HD 4850 surprised everybody out there, including us  — everyone had heard it was going to be fast, and offer great value, but the extent of both these claims [...]

Although wrought with numerous delays, ATI finally launched their long-awaited Radeon HD 4870 graphics card on June 25, 2008. As it was the first graphics card to feature the spanking new GDDR5 memory, much was expected of the Radeon HD 4870. Fortunately, ATI finally delivered what they promised their fans for years – NVIDIA-thumping performance [...]

What’s so great about the TOP line-up from ASUS is that they don’t get a card and just add an extra 10MHz to the core and 20MHz to the memory, the TOP line-up of cards are really well overclocked cards that stand out from the competition. That latest card to carry the TOP name comes [...]

With the launch of the Radeon HD 4870, AMD showed us that they are not only still in the game, but they are back. Their hardware either out performed or was on par with NVIDIA hardware priced significantly higher. As a result, NVIDIA was forced to significantly adjust their prices downward to remain competitive. And, [...]

June was an exciting month in the discrete GPU market. Impressive releases from both AMD and NVIDIA left the companies battling for your hard-earned dollar. As a result, we’ve seen blistering performance, fierce competition, and unprecedented price cuts. Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s current top-end single-GPU card, the Radeon HD 4870. http://icrontic.com/articles/AMD4870

The announcement of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 architecture has enabled AMD’s graphics department to claim technological superiority after a long while. The developer has proved he is not only alive and well but has plenty of resources to develop best-in-class graphics solutions. As a dramatic change in the company’s development strategy, ATI now focuses [...]

Or at least that’s how it felt. The past few weeks have been incredibly tumultuous, sleepless, and beyond interesting. It is as if AMD and NVIDIA just started pulling out hardware and throwing it at eachother while we stood in the middle getting pegged with graphics cards. And we weren’t just hit with new architectures [...]

The past two weeks are going into my book as graphics mayhem. A lot has happened and most certainly a lot has changed. In all that mayhem and uncontrollable number of reviews we added a new review partner to our website. I dropped their name already a couple of times yet with this article I’d [...]