HD 4850 Previews

[onethreehill]

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/14...ghz/index.html

[natty]

So this card performs evenly with an 8800 GT and costs up to $50 more.

[Heretic]

So this card performs evenly with an 8800 GT and costs up to $50 more.

Up to $70 if you include rebates. But apparently, it also performs evenly with the 9800 gtx...at least with the PCPer tests.

[zerazax]

So this card performs evenly with an 8800 GT and costs up to $50 more.

Its pretty close with the 9800GTX

[perkam]

I've said it before I'll say it again, to all those claiming 8800GT superiority:

4850 > 9800GTX
4850 CF > GTX 280

So if 8800GT > 4850
then you are saying 8800GT > 9800GTX and
8800GT SLI > GTX 280

Choose your words correctly, this is one fast card, but yes, as is the 8800GT

Perkam

[Shintai]

I've said it before I'll say it again, to all those claiming 8800GT superiority:

4850 < 9800GTX
4850 CF < GTX 280
8800GT < 4850

There you go. I think people are just saying the 8800GT is a much much better bang for the buck with almost 4850 performance at 2/3th the price.

[adamsleath]

wait for cf stutter reports? ...always looking for the negative.

but anyway 4850cf looks good in the graphs.


...not so much this one however.

[AbelJemka]

Point the fact that Iin Tweaktown review 280GTX from Zotac is an overclocked card 700 core /1400 shaders/2200 memory instead of 600/1300/2200

[MomijiTMO]

Wow oh wow X__X

These cards are the budget builder's heaven. I'm now waiting for the micro stuttering of death threads.

Big question now [for me at least] is min FPS 2 4850 and 1 4870.

[Eastcoasthandle]

AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB Preview - RV770 Discovered
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=579

CPU
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 - Review

Motherboards
EVGA nForce 680i Motherboard - Review
Intel 975XBX Motherboard (for CrossFire testing)

Memory
Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C4

Hard Drive
Western Digital Raptor 150 GB - Review

Sound Card


Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value

Video Card
MSI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
BFG 8800 GT 512MB OCX
BFG 9800 GTX 512MB

Video Drivers
NVIDIA Forceware 175.16
AMD Catalyst RV770 Beta

Power Supply PC Power and Cooling 1000 watt
DirectX Version
DX10 / DX9c

Operating System
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Wow they use a 680i board and a OC 8800GT OCX at 700/1500/2000 (if memory servers me correctly) and a 9800GTX vs. the 4850 still bests it at standard clock! I know of no higher overclocked 8800GT from BFG, this is their "best of the best". Impressive... Looks like no highly OC nv card(s) are going to hamper the 4800 series so far.

[MomijiTMO]

Their testbed needs a major upgrade

[Good find btw]

[Shintai]

Wow oh wow X__X

These cards are the budget builder's heaven. I'm now waiting for the micro stuttering of death threads.

Big question now [for me at least] is min FPS 2 4850 and 1 4870.

I would go 4870. life is too short for CF/SLI if you dont have some wierd S/M fetish. Or just wanna bench it.

[MomijiTMO]

Yeah I'm leaning towards the 4870 although I'm not exactly following what you are saying [S/M???].

[iTravis]

I've said it before I'll say it again, to all those claiming 8800GT superiority:

4850 > 9800GTX
4850 CF > GTX 280

So if 8800GT > 4850
then you are saying 8800GT > 9800GTX and
8800GT SLI > GTX 280

Choose your words correctly, this is one fast card, but yes, as is the 8800GT

Perkam

Thanks Perkam, that pretty much sums it up everything I need to know for now.

[Motiv]

not sure if it's been posted but...

Whatifgaming 4850 review

[zerazax]

Thanks for the link Motiv

Looks like 4xAA is when the card really starts to fly and pulls away from the G92's

[Eastcoasthandle]

not sure if it's been posted but...

Whatifgaming 4850 review

Test System

CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9850 (Running @ 2.6GHz)
Motherboard
MSI K9A2 Platinum (AMD 790FX)
ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe (NVIDIA 780a)
Memory
4GB (2&#215;2GB) Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 (5-5-5-18)

The 4850 performs much better then a 8800 GT it's regular clock rate and it looks like it beats the GTS 512 in this this review.
Looks like edge detect is doing a much better job. Hmm, first time I've seen edge detect reviewed though.

[Motiv]

Thanks for the link Motiv

Looks like 4xAA is when the card really starts to fly and pulls away from the G92's

Have ya self another on me

Tweaktown Review

(probably already done!)

[MomijiTMO]

Have ya self another on me

Tweaktown Review

(probably already done!)

Yeah top of this page

With the Whatif review, note the resolutions the tests were at. Crysis was at 1600 and the other 2 were at 2560.

[Motiv]

Yeah top of this page

Could of sworn that was a 4850 preview last time I looked but now it aint

[MomijiTMO]

Yeah who knows or cares .

How long do we have to wait for the 4870 results again? Oh I'm so excited and it's weirding me out.

[Motiv]

5 days I think

[cegras]

Tweaktown's review isn't .. biased .. gasp!

[korda]

Some 4850 vs 4870 numbers, not sure if they're real though.

http://forum.donanimhaber.com/m_24110474/tm.htm

[OutSider]

Under the pic with charts its written that test results are sended by Sapphire(translated)