ATI Radeon, which is a serious competitor in the nVIDIA GeForce graphics cards launched a new graphics card. At the time of product launch Radeon HD 4870, ATI probably get enlightenment, because the price and performance that is not invincible. Stated that of course is that nVIDIA close neighbors and rivals do not feel comfortable neighborhood.Although the Radeon HD 4870 was not too popular, grateful to nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 with 216 core and update the drivers that remain, enough for ATI graphics card on the fastest roads. Another position in the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 which has 2 graphics cards using the Radeon 4870, recently known as a whole was defeated by a flag nVIDIA GTX 295. ATI was forced to lower the price slashing Radeon HD 4870 X2 is $ 100, the original price is $ 549 to $ 449.
And this does not stop the vendor that offers the ATI graphics card. They were grateful, ATI graphics card in the level of high-end is still able to distinguish himself from his rivals. Meanwhile each series graphics card nVIDIA GTX 200 look similar to each other. Some vendors adjust ATI card so that they can out of this competition.
Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic Edition 1 GB is one example. This graphics card is the last series of the Series Sapphire Toxic factory-overclocked, meaning the overclock by provider (factory) graphics card is. The card comes with the original cooler that made its own cooling Sapphire Sapphire Vapor-X. They promised to keep the temperature of the card remains cold, and will be coming soon after the Sapphire 4870 Toxic Edition 780Mhz with 4000Mhz DDR memory.
