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
www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/2008/kurztest_ati_radeon_hd_4850_rv770/
But i would think/hope AMD/ATI have thought it through and didn't/don't underestimate supply, This is a prime opportunity for them to cash in and get on their feet.
4850 and 9800 GTX are really close, with the nVidia card very slightly ahead.
Now, notice what happens when you increase the details @ the same resolution:
The 9800 GTX loses by nearly 14%: quite significant, IMO.
And now, in an even higher resolution:
In here, the GTX is losing by just 5.4%: a small lead for the 4850 card.
Now, notice what happens when you increase the details @ the same resolution:
The 9800 GTX loses by a whopping 41.7%: WOW doesn't quite cover it, really!
Question is: will W1zzard review back this up?
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Im really stoked now, UT3 runs excellent on the card.
Sure: GTX280 is the better card, no doubt, but the gap lowered by 20.8% and that's really significant, IMO.
I wonder what the gap would be @ 2048x1536 ...
But seriously -- did even ATI know the R700 was going to be this fast? :twitch: I hate to jinx it, but it's faster than the 9800GTX for almost a hundred bucks less in some cases...
Know what else I like about the 4850 that's been missing in a lot of other ATI cards? The fact that it's fast in ALL games, not just a select few, leaving others where it's trounced by much cheaper nVidia chips (of course that could just be the old nvidia "partner" program showing it's colors).
The reviews showing the 4850 equal or better than the 9800gtx are techpowerup, computerbase.de, guru3d, legionhardware.
While some people are foucusing on reviews from pcper and pcgh which are showing awful results for the 4850. For pcper its mainly because they are using a heavily oced 8800gt to conclude the 4850 isnt much better. The PCGH benchmarks are completely incosonsistent with the above ones. Just look at the call of duty 4 benchmarks where the 9800gtx destroys the 4850.
NB im talking about other sites.
You can buy 2 4850's for almost 200 dollars less than 1 GTX 280 and get equal performance which means the 4870X2 is going to be the fastest single pcb card for a while
I wonder if 1 4870 will outperform 1 GTX260
Great reviews W1zz! :toast:
I think that we should all pitch in and get W1zz a 30" monitor so we can get some 2560x1600 results too. ;)