This is the ATI Radeon HD 4870, rumoured before its release to be one of the fastest cards around, and it has just landed in our labs, only one week after it was announced.

It’s benchmarking downstairs in our labs as we speak – hence the odd angle in the image above – but we can already tell you that it looks to be incredible value for money.

It’s not as fast as Nvidia’s GTX 280, as we hoped it might be earlier this month, but it looks to be matching the speed of the GTX 260 – while almost chopping its price in half.

We’ll have full benchmark results and a review on the way soon, so keep an eye out on the site.