{"id":3900,"date":"2009-03-09T02:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2009-03-09T02:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:49:19","slug":"sapphire-hd4870-with-2gb-gddr5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/sapphire-hd4870-with-2gb-gddr5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire HD4870 with 2GB GDDR5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several video card\u00a0manufacturers have\u00a0begin increasing the amount of memory on their existing cards.\u00a0 Some of\u00a0the time this\u00a0can result in\u00a0better performance.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ati-forum.de\/index.php\/news\/34-amdati-grafikkarten\/330-sapphire-hd4870-mit-2gb-gddr5\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/news.ati-forum.de\/index.php\/news\/34-amdati-grafikkarten\/330-sapphire-hd4870-mit-2gb-gddr5', 'news.ati-forum.de']);\" >news.ati-forum.de<\/a>, it looks like Sapphire has increased the\u00a0memory for its Sapphire HD4870\u00a0from 512MB to 1GB and now to\u00a02GB GDDR5.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3901\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4870_ref1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3901 \" title=\"4870_ref1\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4870_ref1.jpg?resize=171%2C258\" alt=\"Sapphire's Reference with 2GB VRAM\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sapphire&#39;s Reference (pictured) soon with 2GB VRAM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently it is\u00a0Sapphire\u2019s reference design that will get this treatment and it will cost about\u00a030 Euros more than the 1GB versions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will this result in another significant speed increase?\u00a0 That is doubtful but you will probably\u00a0be able to use some higher quality AA, bigger textures or even better shadow mapping in demanding new games such as <em>Crysis<\/em> or <em>Clear Sky<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 As yet, we\u00a0have no word on U.S. availability or pricing at this time, but we\u2019ll keep you updated as more information becomes available to us.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several video card\u00a0manufacturers have\u00a0begin increasing the amount of memory on their existing cards.\u00a0 Some of\u00a0the time this\u00a0can result in\u00a0better performance.\u00a0 According to news.ati-forum.de, it looks like Sapphire has increased the\u00a0memory for its Sapphire HD4870\u00a0from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[471,470,472],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hd4870-2gb-ddr5","tag-sapphire","tag-sapphire-4870-2gb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}