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5.7 out of 10

Sapphire ATI RADEON HD 3870

First seen: 5 december 2007

Information found in: from 25 sources in 10 countries.

Great Deal: $89.00

  • User Score (2)
    9.0 9.0 from 2 reviewers
  • Expert Score (12)
    7.3 7.3 from 12 reviewers
  • Value for money (2)
    5.0 5.0 from 2 reviewers
  • Features (3)
    7.2 7.2 from 3 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • overclocking potential, great image quality, 512mb frame buffer, single slot cooler, excellent performance for price
  • double slot design

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Release Date

  • First seen
    5 December 2007

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…

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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

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  1. Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 graphics card

    Reviewer: PC Magazine
    5 December 2007
    Overall 8
    8.0
    Value for money 8
    8.0
    Features 10
    10
     

    A terrific DirectX 10.1 card with plenty of overclocking potential, but it has a bulky design Read more

  2. Sapphire Atomic HD 3870

    Reviewer: Custom PC
    15 February 2008
    Overall 8
    7.5
    Features 9
    9.0
     

    The Atomic makes its entrance with a lavish presentation. We like its silver case - even if it's pointless once you've plugged in the card - and we like the accessories and free games too. However, none of these makes the card run faster. At the moment, even this, the fastest Radeon HD 3870 on the market, can't compete frame for frame with Nvidia's 512MB GeForce 8800 GT. However, the vapour chamber cooler is brilliant, providing greater cooling power and giving the... Read more

  3. Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 512MB Toxic

    Reviewer: HotHardware
    24 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 modestly overclocked card that offers solid performance for the price.  There is a lot to like about the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Toxic 512MB, and we definitely recommend users in the market for a graphics card check it out.  With it's higher... Read more

  4. Sapphire Radeon HD3870 Ultimate

    Reviewer: Boot Daily
    6 June 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    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 anywhere between $150-$200, it presents itself as an excellent PPR (performance-to-price-ration) proposition. Read more

  5. Reviewer: techPowerUp!
    12 March 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    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 installation. Yes, the card runs quite cool but what does that help if you can't stand the noise. Another problem with the fan is that it tends to constantly change fan speed in short intervals making the noise even more obvious. If you are a bit handy with... Read more

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