RV770-based AMD Radeon HD 4850 gets benchmarked
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 19th 2008 10:44AM
posted Jun 19th 2008 10:44AM
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I lost interest waiting for the page to load.
Too bad, it shows the 4850 is a potent card with excellent average FPS performance. The price is going to be very attractive considering this is going to be a mid-range card. Single slot cooling and 9800GTX performance. I'll take 4 thank you very much.
Nvidia FTW!
Should be fixed now...
thanks.
that monster makes this thing look cheap.
Surely CGI boobies would make this perform better and add to the value considerably.
What with all those monsters / anime chick splurted all over grapics card boxs (and the cards themselves). Nothing is packaged like a video card:
Shiny silver box
Embossed lettering
Anime Robot Chick with Sword and Tube leading out of her nostrils and about one million spikes on her armor
String of numbers and letters which turns out to be the 'name' of the card.
i LOST INTEREST WAITING FOR THE SECOND PAGE TO LOAD ... wow ..
-sun
The heat is a little disconcerting. I wonder how much better it would perform with a dual-slot cooler?
Performance prob won't change much, but it should help a bit with heat/fan noise which I guess could help overclocking. There were more than a few companies with double slot 3850s so I think I'll wait till I see one of them pick up this new card to make a decision.
Yes, but does it play C...nevermind.
Yes, it will play Contra.
I don't know, Chess is pretty taxing on my computer.
I don't know, Chess is pretty taxing on my video card.
Ohh ATI and their red PCBs.
Hopefully, the 4870 will have a dual-slot cooler. Even though I'll watercool it eventually.
already have water cooling setup it wont be an issue for me
but the last few video cards i bought either nvidia or ati have ad heat problems that' y i got the water cooling any how plus i like the lack of fan noise
Uhhh, actually, in real game performance (not the synthetic benchmarks) it was
Overclocked 8800 GT < 9800 GTX < 4850 < 260 < 280
with prices of
$180, $300, $200, $400, and $650
I'd say out of these, i'm getting a 4850 (wait for dual slot though, lower temps and increase overclock). The 8800 gt might seem like a better deal, but remember we're comparing the overclocked 8800 gt to a stock 4850
So it's pretty much decided.
A little basic comparison...
HD 4850 < 9800GTX < GTX 260 < GTX 280
Lets see how the hd4970 fares. Hopefully better.
Yeah Maurik, I'd say your comparison is about right.
$200 < $269 < $400 < $659
As for the 4870, well, seeing as the 4850 gives me essentially 9800 GTX performance at a $70 discount, I'd say as long as the 4870 comes out with similar performance/cost gains, I'm all for it.
Wowee--A card that's at the same level as a 9 month old $200 card. Where do I line up?
The cheapest 9800 GTX is $269. nVidia's UMAP pricing architecture will do well to see that the price is around that number everywhere, too.
So, the 4850 performs on par with a card that costs $70 more? And we, the consumers, are complaining about ATi's low-end next gen card doing this why?
It looks like the 2xxx series left a bad taste in everyones mouths. I took the risk and went 3xxx and I'm quite happy with ATI again. It looks like they've gotten the kinks out of the whole merger thing.
It seems like the 8800 GT is still the best buy out of all of 'em...
Unfortunately I have an ATI card and they just released new drivers and I tried them, so much for PR then, what good is a card if they can't make drivers that work/install properly really? So now I veer towards nvidia again.
The Smell Of Nvidia Fanboyism Is strong Here...
Two of these in Crossfire can almost match GTX 280's performance and only cost you $400 (you can find them for less) compared to $650 for the latter. The GDRR5 version would scale better in Crossfire and might match the GTX 280 for far less money.
Now, imagine what two 4870 ($299) can do: 1GB GDDR5 FTW.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/
I'm probably not the most qualified person to speak about video cards since I've never owned a top end card. However I do like to read about them and watch videos of what they can do.
From everything I've read I'm always under the impression that Nvidia cards are the "American" muscle of videocards. They are huge, consume a lot of power and are just not elegant. ATI on the other hand is more efficient and elegant in the way it handles things. I could be wrong but that's always the idea I get.
I believe you're mistaken. Your description sounds more like Intel and AMD.
Intel throws massive amounts of research into things like 45nm proceses while AMD tries making "true" quad cores, gets them to market 9 months later, then gets their ass kicked. Sure, their solution was more elegant, but unless they stack 2 "true quadcores" on top of each other (intel syle) to make an octo-core processor, they will continue to get their asses handed to them.
PS: Nvidia FTW!
it smells good.
I did a review of the 4850 from VisionTek it is a very sweet card, look here for the review. and check out the cards @ FXvideocards.com
review: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=191096
FXvideocards.com. http://fxvideocards.com/VisionTek-Radeon-HD-4850-p-16381.html
Good to see ATI back in the game. They should come up with like an HD 4950 or something like that to compete with the GTX 260 and 280. Dang... I already spent my cash on an 8800 GT. But still, I think I'm already asking too much for this price. $200 cards have never been so good.
hey.. the numbers ar tottaly fake or crap! I mean if ati makes a card worst than my 3870 512 ddr4 card that goes faster than (with these numbers) 4870 they are idiots.. so.. i cant believe these numbers..
The Ati 4850 is way better then what Nvidia offers for a similar price, their top end 280 GPU costs about 650$ which is pretty ridiculous when 2 4850s paired can beat it out in most games and costs 400$~. Don't buy this card just yet, the Ati 4870 looks promising and might equal the performance of the 280 for nearly half the price ($299~).