Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2048 MB Review 115

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2048 MB Review

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Manufacturer: Sapphire
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Introduction

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Today Sapphire finally released their HD 4850 X2 card. The original product had been announced since August by AMD. Both the HD 4850 X2 and HD 4870 X2 were announced at the same time but partners were very slow to adapt the product into their lineup.

Sapphire as one of the biggest AMD add in board partners is the first to actually deliver a HD 4850 X2. Actually based on the information we got so far, Sapphire is the only board partner who will have a HD 4850 X2. The card is based on the same dual GPU principle as the HD 4870 X2 but comes with GDDR3 instead of GDDR5. Sapphire has chosen to use their own cooler design with two independent fans over the AMD reference cooler.

With a price point of $419, the Sapphire HD 4850 X2 is a direct competitor of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280.

GeForce
9800 GT		Radeon
HD 4850		GeForce
9800 GTX		GeForce
8800 GTX 		GeForce
GTX 260		Radeon
HD 4870		GeForce
GTX 280		Sapphire
HD 4850 X2		Radeon
HD 4870 X2
Shader units 1128001281281928002402x 8002x 800
ROPs161616242816322x 162x 16
GPUG92RV770G92G80GT200RV770GT2002x RV7702x RV770
Transistors754M 956M754M 681M 1400M 956M1400M 2x 956M2x 956M
Memory Size512 MB 512 MB 512 MB768 MB896 MB512 MB 1024 MB2x 1024 MB 2x 1024 MB
Memory Bus Width 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 384 bit 448 bit 256 bit 512 bit 2x 256 bit 2x 256 bit
Core Clock600 MHz 625 MHz 675 MHz 575 MHz 576 MHz 750 MHz 602 MHz 625 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Clock900 MHz 993 MHz 1100 MHz 900 MHz 999 MHz 900 MHz 1107 MHz 993 MHz 900 MHz
Price$120$160$160$220$240$250$410$420$530
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