The SAPPHIRE HD 4890 Vapor-X model is a new SAPPHIRE original design. It has SAPPHIRE’s Vapor-X cooling module on the GPU together with a heatsink and profiled fan venting heat out of the case. It is quieter and significantly faster than the standard reference model, with core clock speed of 870MHz and 1GB of DDR5 memory clocked at 1050MHz. Any two of the four output options can be used simultaneously, giving maximum flexibility for connection to different display types. An HDMI to DVI adaptor is also included for those who wish to use a pair of DVI monitors.
 | Factory overclocked at 870 MHz. |
| Sapphire Patent Pending Black Diamond Choke |
| Silent and Powerful Dual Slot Vapor-Chamber Cooler, Under 20 dbA in 2D Operation, under 30 dbA in 3D Operation before 85 degree ℃. |
| Solid Capacitors |
| 1 GB of GDDR5 memory |
| DirectX® 10.1 support |
| 800 stream processing units |
| 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering |
| Quad mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance1 |
| PCI Express® 2.0 support |
| Dynamic geometry acceleration |
| Game physics processing capability |
| ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology2 |
| - Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video
- Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
- DVD Upscaling
- Dynamic Contrast
- Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
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| Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology2 |
| ATI Stream technology2 |
| 1 ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect and may require aspecialized power supply. 2 ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo HD and ATI Stream™ are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon GPUs. Not all ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics cards have all features and full enablement of some capabilities may require complementary products. |
