Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB
Posted September 18th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Review When Sapphire had added its Vapor-X cooler to AMD’s Radeon HD 4850 it turned a standard single-slot board into a very, very quiet dual-slot card. Now it has performed the same trick on the Radeon HD 4890.
Sapphire’s Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X: very, very quiet…
The two Vapor-X designs look very similar, but there has been a small change made to the new model. The backplane of the 4850 carries DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs, while the 4890 gains a DisplayPort connector. If you have two digital TFT displays connected to your PC, you’ll be grateful to learn that Sapphire now includes an HDMI-to-DVI adapter in the box so dual DVI is an option.
Despite the cosmetic similarities, the 4890 is a more formidable gaming beast than the 4850. Its GPU core is clocked at a higher speed and the use of 1GB of GDDR 5 memory rather than 512MB of GDDR 3 increases the bandwidth substantially. If you fancy paying a £35 premium you can buy Sapphire Vapor-X with a mighty 2GB instead. Read the rest of this entry »
