HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo 1 GB GDDR5

, on Mar 24th, 2009, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: HIS

Introduction

AMD's HD 4870 has been on the market for a while now and is soon to be succeeded by the HD 4890. Nevertheless the card is still a great performance choice, especially since many manufacturers are also offering 1 GB versions of the card. The reference design featured 512 MB of GDDR5 at launch.
HIS has couple a custom colored AMD reference PCB with their own IceQ cooling solution and an extra overclock of 770 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory.

	GeForce 9800 GT	Radeon HD 4850	GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce GTS 250 1 GB	GeForce GTX 260	Radeon HD 4870	HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo	GeForce GTX 280	Radeon HD 4870 X2	GeForce GTX 285
Shader units	112	800	128	128	192	800	800	240	2x 800	240
ROPs	16	16	16	16	28	16	16	32	2x 16	32
GPU	G92	RV770	G92	G92	GT200	RV770	RV770	GT200	2x RV770	GT200b
Transistors	754M	956M	754M	754M	1400M	956M	956M	1400M	2x 956M	1400M
Memory Size	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB	1024 MB	896 MB	512 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	448 bit	256 bit	256 bit	512 bit	2x 256 bit	512 bit
Core Clock	600 MHz	625 MHz	675 MHz	738 MHz	576 MHz	750 MHz	770 MHz	602 MHz	750 MHz	648 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	993 MHz	1100 MHz	1100 MHz	999 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	1107 MHz	900 MHz	1242 MHz
Price	$110	$140	$160	$149	$240	$190	$260	$315	$425	$350