HD 4850 Previews

[[XC] hipno650]

- 8800GTS is a EOL product. Is a matter of time to they disapear from the market. They don´t event count to this fyght.
- HD 4850 with beta drivers is competitive with 9800GT/8800 ultra. And competite = equal or better in overall performance.
- Crysis is 1 game. We need to see the overall numbers or the cards are just made to bench and not to play?
- The Nvidia= God drivers and ATI=Bad drivers is just hilariours. If is that your argument it´s false. ATI don´t use costumers to bombard them with beta + beta drivers like Nvidia and the oficial ones have 3 months or so. So if anyone has to learn is Nvidia from ATI with their 1 month driver WHQL launch.

drivers for me. nvidia has ATI beat hands down in my opinion. the interface is so much smoother and nicer and you can actually use the ocing features in it. unlike CCC which is a joke. not to mention the problems i have had with ATI drivers. and AMD's XP support is becoming lower and lower. i have the whole camp here. 8800gtx, 8800gt, 2900pro, 1950xtx, 7900gt, 1800xt and 8600gt to name a few. notice i said HAVE not had and i have personally liked Nvidia's drivers much more than ATI's and i have found ocing an Nvidia card much easier than the ATI counterparts.

what do you mean they don't count to this fight?? i can still buy one for around the same price as the HD4850 is supposed to be. wasn't the 8800gtx and ultra EOL as well a while ago??? but i can still buy them. and by the time the 8800gts 512 will be EOL the 9800gtx will have it's price.

i agree that Crysis is only one game but the fact is that i can run everything else just fine on my 8800gt. so crysis is the game that i would see the most improvement on if i were to buy a new card. new games will tax the 8800gt more and then a new card will be needed but we have no way to tell what card will do better in games that have not been released.

yes the drivers on the HD4850 are still green but the performance now is below the 9800gtx and so with new drivers they the HD4850 should end up about 5-10% faster. and that's something i expected from a 480SP card not an 800SP card.

[AbelJemka]

yes the drivers on the HD4850 are still green but the performance now is below the 9800gtx and so with new drivers they the HD4850 should end up about 5-10% faster. and that's something i expected from a 480SP card not an 800SP card.

What a bold statement based only on Crysis and only on Mascaras's preview altough there is a review made a the most appreciated site in France showing that 4850 is ahead of 9800GTX even ahead of 8800 Ultra