Thursday, June 19th 2008
AMD HD 4850 launched
As of 3PM CET the NDA for the Radeon HD 4850 Series has been lifted. Since this came as a surprise to everyone our reviews are not finished yet now finished.
MSI HD 4850 | PowerColor HD 4850
MSI HD 4850 | PowerColor HD 4850
137 Comments on AMD HD 4850 launched
edit: oh, quite even, although HD4850 steals the lead in higher resolutions.
edit2: what I don't get is why 800 shaders doesn't crush absolutely everything? Maybe Vantage would give bigger difference between 3850 and 4850. Should be future proof at least, if games keep getting more shader heavy.
edit3: seems it did do much better on some actual games beating the HD3850 with 3times higher framerate.
Now for the scores... I think I'll make this card or the big brother my back up!
P.S. Get back to your bench!
Thanks W1zz
I bet 2 weeks :p
But on the topic of scores the 4850 is having no trouble keeping up with the 8800/9800gtx's, Impressive to say the least.
Gam
- Christine
So far, overall the HD4850 is performing very well at high-resolutions (1600x1200 and 2048x1536). Looks like the "HD" prefix is being honest with us.
I think you didn't include Vantage scores in this review (as well as the GTX280 cards reviews) because you were unable to procure the other (older) cards to do Vantage tests on them as well (so that we could compare them all) but, IMHO, you should start to include it in your reviews sooner or later: preferably, sooner rather then later, wouldn't you say.
This GPU has "Hi-Def Champion" written all over it.