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    3870 crossfire vs 4870

    I have Asus' P5Q-EM motherboard and i want to upgrade my graphic card. There are only two option, 4870 or 3870 in crossfire which one will perform better.

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    Re: 3870 crossfire vs 4870

    The 4870 is the slowest, a very bad option, The 3870 crossfire is much faster and it is in between the nvidia gtx 260 and gtx280 performance , but closer to the 260.The Radeon HD 3870 has a peak board power of 105W, which is a tad more than the 95W on the Radeon HD 3850.

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    Re: 3870 crossfire vs 4870

    The HD 3870 cards are apparently clocked at 777MHz for the core and 2,252MHz for the memory.The reference GPU clock speed for the 4870 X2 is 750 MHz, and the reference memory speed is 900 MHz.

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    Re: 3870 crossfire vs 4870

    With more than twice the processing power of previous generation AMD discrete graphics cards, ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards deliver a cinematic gaming experience and unprecedented performance.The new TeraScale graphics engine combines the power of up to 1.2 teraFLOPS, up to 800 stream processors and next generation GDDR5 memory to propel you deep into your gameplay with seamless frame rates and high resolutions.

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