Vision Tek 4850 review

[jimmyz]

crossfire testing begins tommorow. expect an update by 7-8pm E.S.T.

[zerazax]

crossfire testing begins tommorow. expect an update by 7-8pm E.S.T.

woot

[Kai Robinson]

Ohhhhhh goody! I want a pair of these i think.....the results will determine the size of my wallet next month

[munim]

Post was sort of a thread hi-jack, took it out.

[godsfist]

Or a keyboard, as I seem to be witnessing.

No doubt Mr 1,672

[Tonucci]

Your Crysis result @ 1680x1050 @ High settings @ DX9 >> pretty much same as 9800GTX



HD4850 + Quad-Core @ 4Ghz = 35 FPS

9800GTX + E8400 @ 4Ghz = 37 FPS

But the HD4850 min fps is 7 frames higher than the 9800gtx in these tests. Dont know if the card or the quad is the culprit tho...

EDIT: Hmm post 248 shows the inverse lol, 8800gt with 7 higher min fps

[WrigleyVillain]

crossfire testing begins tommorow. expect an update by 7-8pm E.S.T.

As you said it would...

Just wait til we can get them above 700 core, of course. This limit so far is curious, hopefully nothing more...

[Your_Boss]

Ohhhhhh goody! I want a pair of these i think.....the results will determine the size of my wallet next month

What, blue balls?

[Bandwidth]

Nice work jummyz

I noticed from the ATI Catalyst Panel there is no separate slider for the shaders/SPs.

I had thought ATI was going to have separate clocks for the gpu core and shaders this time, like what Nvidia does

[WrigleyVillain]

I had thought ATI was going to have separate clocks for the gpu core and shaders this time, like what Nvidia does

Uh oh...

[Bandwidth]

All the rumors floating around the net gets people confused sometimes (me)

Doesn't matter you know, as long as the new ATI cards perform well, which they seem to do.

[perkam]

Prolific posting hardly delivers creedance, if it did every troll on the net would be revered.. and if we are going to talk politeness then I would have to refer you back perkam's ridiculously overbearing post

I asked to give a guy a break. Nothing else really

As for my blue name, I was XS Moderator for General Hardware (this whole section) and XS News for 2.5 years up until last month when I gave up my reigns to some newer blood Previous moderators can request to have XIP status after they retire, a sign of goodwill

Old habits die hard I guess But my point still stands This isn't official review and the performance is far from conclusive and I don't quite understand why Nvidia users get so insecure at times. Yes there is a lot of hype about the 4850, and it makes sense to want to get a handle on it, but you don't start posting randomly in someone's thread. You ask them if they want to do the comparison, or you open a separate thread (you can) comparing your results vs his.

99% threads go down the drain because members don't respect the wishes of the threadstarter. It's HIS thread, ask him before you start posting comparisons which take away from everyone's experience who are here to take a sneak peek at REAL results for the new generation of chips

There's the wrong way to do it, and the right way to do it: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=191542

Perkam

[adder1971]

have to admit i'm pullin for AMD/ATI on this one. so far from what i've seen it's looking good.

[Jamesrt2004]

But the HD4850 min fps is 7 frames higher than the 9800gtx in these tests. Dont know if the card or the quad is the culprit tho..

pretty sure it's the Quad as when i upgraded from dual to quad it stopped my min frames going say under 50 as before they where going under 30

[Lewis_UK]

Anyone know the UK prices?

I think these cards are worth the hype they are receiving.

[Jamesrt2004]

Anyone know the UK prices?

I think these cards are worth the hype they are receiving.

gonna guess about £140 ish when they first come out on like overclockers wait a week for ebuyer n microdirect etc to get em for about 120ish

[Leeghoofd]

Nicely done Jimmyz... looks like a fab card to me... gamers will be spoiled ( at least those that didn't buy a GFX card the last year...)

[godsfist]

There's the wrong way to do it, and the right way to do it:

Perkam

Exactly, and you came across as a tool, but at least you have an excuse.. you were a moderator

[Kai Robinson]

What, blue balls?

4850's you prize tit.

[Nedjo]

crossfire testing begins tommorow. expect an update by 7-8pm E.S.T.

any chance indulging my request regarding the Crysis?

[WrigleyVillain]

Jimmyz just texted me:

"My X-Fire is up. Benches rock! Film @ 7:00"

[xMrBunglex]

was that Lightsmark run done with v1.3? that's almost twice as fast as my 3870 CrossFire score.

[jimmyz]

was that Lightsmark run done with v1.3? that's almost twice as fast as my 3870 CrossFire score.

yes 1.3 I will run the x-fire run in a bit, first off, too busy to upload pics right now and it seems there are lots of other numbers for now. but here is some teasers till later.

06 in vista 64 same as before with 4ghz quad.but with x-fire and 8.6 drivers, default card clocks. and IQ......... 20,287 (single 14,254 About 42% if my math is right).

05 in vista same deal as above. ..................25,562 (single 22,150 only about 15%)

Vantage single card score ..........................7,444 crossfire 10,654 (about 43% improvement)

crysis in xp was bugged so I am disregarding the scores for xp for now going to run vantage and then re-install on xp and get some stuff up in a bit.

[nukec]

i hope for some game benches... cod4 and crysis. thx

[non]

Can i request very high crysis with 4AA in CF?any res will do, preferably at 1600x1200 or above...much appreciated mate. And i wonder whether any flickering happens in CF very high like CF3870 with previous cat 8.5