Wednesday, June 25th 2008
MSI Officially Launch Their Radeon HD4800 Series
MSI, a leading manufacturer of computer products, proudly unveils its latest R4800 series graphics cards for the game ethnic groups. MSI R4870-T2D512 and R4850-T2D512 support the DirectX 10.1 framework of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and both have the 800 stream processor, which achieves the unprecedented levels teraflop (1000Gflops) computing capability. It is ten times higher than any high-end CPU. MSI R4800 series graphics card comes with the superb computing capability which can be converted to high-definition games special effects, and provide the extreme gaming experience.
MSI R4800 series graphics cards are based on the latest 2nd generation of 55nm GPU. Integrated with the ATI PowerPlay power-saving technology, MSI R4800 provides twice the performance enhancement with the same watt. It conforms to the environmental energy conservation worldwide initiative with MSI (ECOlution) environmental protection ideal. In addition, MSI R4800 series graphics cards also have built the enhanced version of UVD 2.0 video decoder core. "High performance", "energy efficiency", and "HD video experience" are the main features of MSI R4800 series graphics cards.
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MSI R4800 series graphics cards are based on the latest 2nd generation of 55nm GPU. Integrated with the ATI PowerPlay power-saving technology, MSI R4800 provides twice the performance enhancement with the same watt. It conforms to the environmental energy conservation worldwide initiative with MSI (ECOlution) environmental protection ideal. In addition, MSI R4800 series graphics cards also have built the enhanced version of UVD 2.0 video decoder core. "High performance", "energy efficiency", and "HD video experience" are the main features of MSI R4800 series graphics cards.
8 Comments on MSI Officially Launch Their Radeon HD4800 Series
Cant wait to get my hands on a Sapphire HD4870x2 :o
Daniel
MSI Card:
PowerColor Card:
If you plan on sticking with the stock cooler, you're lucky if the base plate turns out like the one MSI has. It's now known that MSI has such a cooler :)
That extra raised area on the MSI is visiable, but doesnt look very significant. But perhaps it does help to conduct heat to the outer edges making it a heat spreader. But in itself, it doesnt affect the cooling directly. Only moves the heat to the edges of the card more effective, where the main cooler and fan seem to be identical. So yes, perhaps 1°C difference, but they are, essentially, the same cooler.
I doubt a heatsink is going to change power consumption of the card.
Perhaps there is more than meets the eye. Does w1zzard still have these so we can weight them?
PowerColor:
MSI:
Power Consumption:
At peak they're both the same.
Performance/Watt:
Temps:
>MSI:
>PowerColor:
PS. The Powercolor looks like aluminium painted a copper color. The MSI is clearly solid copper.
Considering both cards run on reference parameters, the only visible difference I see is with this cooler. Or that something really random. IDK. Discuss on the review's thread.