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PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 - Faster Yet Cooler?

By Kenny Yeo - 8 Sep 2008

Win XP Results - Crysis & Unreal Tournament 3

Win XP Results - Crysis & Unreal Tournament 3

In Crysis, we saw once again that the difference between the higher clocked PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 and the standard HD 4870 was very slight, with only a few frames separating them. However, the PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 did better than the standard HD 4870 with 4x AA on and at the highest resolution. This was no doubt due to the extra 512MB of GDDR5 memory. When compared to NVIDIA's offerings, it continues to offer performance that is somewhere between a GTX 280 and GTX 260.

In Unreal Tournament 3, the pattern continues with the PowerColor PCS+ HD 4870 performing a little better than the standard, but still finding itself lodged between the two GTX 200 cards from NVIDIA.

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