Pros & Cons
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- 9.5 inch length fits in most cases; good price/performance ratio and overall good performance.
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- Not the fastest card you can get.
- "Only" 512MB of video memory (albeit fast video memory.)
Diamond Radeon HD 4870 Specs
| Graphics Memory: | 512 |
| Included Cables: | S-Video |
| Includes DVI-I-to-VGA converter?: | yes |
| Memory Clock Speed: | 900 |
| No. DVI Output(s): | 2 |
| No. VGA Output(s): | 1 |
| RAMDAC Speed: | 400 |
| System Interface: | PCI |
| Warranty: | 12 months |
The Diamond Radeon HD 4870, which is driven by an ATI GPU, gives impressive performance for a sub-$300 graphics card. In fact, at $275 street, the ratio of price to performance qualifies as pretty notable. Although the stock ASUS ENGTX280 offers good performance, given that some gaming tests ended in near dead-heat with the Diamond Radeon HD 4870, the latter may offer a better value. The wild card here is the memory: The 1GB of video RAM on the ASUS adapter can come in handy if you really pump up anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering, or run at very high resolutions.