www.testfreaks.com

Reviews, reviews, reviews...

5.0 out of 10

Sapphire ATI RADEON HD 3870

 

Information found in: from 24 sources in 9 countries

Best Price at Amazon

  • User Score (22)
    9.2 9.2 from 22 reviewers
  • Expert Score (13)
    7.7 7.7 from 13 reviewers
  • Value for money (3)
    4.0 4.0 from 3 reviewers
  • Performance (3)
    4.0 4.0 from 3 reviewers
  • Picture quality (2)
    5.0 5.0 from 2 reviewers
  • Installation (4)
    6.2 6.2 from 4 reviewers
  • 3d performance (3)
    5.4 5.4 from 3 reviewers
  • Ease of setup (2)
    5.6 5.6 from 2 reviewers
  • Speed performance (2)
    5.6 5.6 from 2 reviewers
More grades Less grades

  • Best Deals on eBay

  • Score Distribution

Experts:
9-10
(6)
7-8
(4)
5-6
(2)
3-4
(0)
1-2
(1)
Users:
9-10
(14)
7-8
(7)
5-6
(1)
3-4
(0)
1-2
(0)

  • Expert Reviews

  1. HotHardware

    HotHardware
    9 May 2008

    Retailing in the area of $190, we think the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Toxic 512MB offers an excellent bang for the buck.  Sapphire backs the card with a single-slot Vapor-X cooler, a comprehensive retail bundle and delivers a Read more

    • Excellent Performance for Price, Great Image Quality, Solid Supporting Bundle with The Black Box Voucher, 512MB Frame Buffer, Single Slot Cooler
    • More expensive than other 3870s

  2. techPowerUp!

    techPowerUp!
    8.0/10
    12 March 2008

    Even though the Sapphire Vapor-X Cooling Technology is a nice feature I think the implementation of it could be better. Under load the fan is so noisy that you feel like throwing the card out of the system right after... Read more

    • Single slot coolerOverclocked out of the boxHDMI cable includedLow idle power consumptionHDMI+HDCP+AudioPCI-Express 2.0 support3DMark full version included
    • Very noisy fan under loadLimited overclocking

  3. Boot Daily

    Boot Daily
    10/10
    6 June 2008

    Yeah, so I get it – the Radeon 3870 is sort of old news by now right? Well sure it is, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the better graphic card values out right now – in fact, at its current price range of... Read more

  4. TechRadar UK

    TechRadar UK
    7.0/10
    7 July 2008

    Still, since it's priced at around twice that of an 8800GTX, I'd recommend forgetting about buying this Atomic anyway. Read more

    • Plenty of headroom for overclocking
    • Awkwardly large reservoir, Over-priced, Not pre-overclocked

  5. expertreviews.co.uk

    8.0/10
    15 February 2008

    We reviewed Sapphire's Radeon HD 3850 in What's New, Shopper 241. This is its bigger brother, the 3870. On paper, the 3870's specifications are considerably better than the pricier Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT's. Read more

  • User Reviews

  1. Why get a 3870 instead of 8800gt and 8800gts

    10/10
    Reviewer: ysith, Ciao
    11 May 2008

    A very, very good graphics card . I have made numerous computers in the past and it was never really that hard choosing which graphics card to go for, there was one that would fit my budget and give good performace. Read more

    • Plays all current games at max quality (except crysis)
    • New 4870 is coming out in june, if you can wait for that

  2. Sapphire Radeon HD 3870: 3870 Low price, High Spec

    Dooyoo
    9.3/10
    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    14 July 2008

    For the price, you'd struggle to beat the image quality or the speed. A great buy. Read more

    • Great for playing on lower res monitors (up to about 19")
    • struggles (only with crysis however) at higher resolutions

  • WikiFreak Description

Dual Core Pixel Processing when used on any PCI-E supporting mainboard is just part of what you get with the SAPPHIRE HD3870 X2.

It comes set up with a 2X ATI RADEON HD 3870 GPU, making it the ultimate in gaming devices.

The SAPPHIRE HD3870 X2 also features CrossFireX™ performance and provides you with more than 1 TeraFLOP of GPU Computing Power which is all set up on this one single card.

Offering you a mind boggling 512MB or 1GB of on board memory, as well as DirectX® 10, and Shader Model 4 an…

See more
Edit

Dual Core Pixel Processing when used on any PCI-E supporting mainboard is just part of what you get with the SAPPHIRE HD3870 X2.

It comes set up with a 2X ATI RADEON HD 3870 GPU, making it the ultimate in gaming devices.

The SAPPHIRE HD3870 X2 also features CrossFireX™ performance and provides you with more than 1 TeraFLOP of GPU Computing Power which is all set up on this one single card.

Offering you a mind boggling 512MB or 1GB of on board memory, as well as DirectX® 10, and Shader Model 4 and OpenGL acceleration it also includes some enhanced support for the new Windows Vista’s ™ 3D environments.

# 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process

# PCI Express x16 GPU bus interface

# 256-bit GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface

# Ring Bus Memory Controller

512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes

See less
Edit

  • Manufacturer's Description

No manufacturer description available.

Specifications

  • Alternative names
    - HD3870

Release Date

  • First seen
    7 December 2007

Ask the community

Need more advice? Ask the community a question.

Questions asked: 1 Answers: 0

Previous questions about this product

Other Products

Users who looked at this product also looked at these:

  1. MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition
    Freakscore: 9.8
    MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition

Video Reviews