HD 4850 Previews

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jimmyz

[w0mbat]

HD4850 > 9800GTX & 880Ultra and sometimes even >GTX 260 o.O
What will the HD4870 do to Nvidia?

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

What's the most recent rumor on pricing for these?

[w0mbat]

sub $200 or about 160€

[WrigleyVillain]

Nice, thanks. Pricing is supposed to be around $200.

[kemo]

Without antialiasing, the Radeon HD 4850 cap the GeForce 9800 GTX the post. With antialiasing, it goes through against the front, with an advance of 18%. . It also exceeds the Radeon HD 3870 X2, which often has difficulty with this filter.
Note that for the part antialiasing (only) the results obtained under Bioshock and STALKER are not taken into account, the Radeon does not support this filter in these games

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=e...n-hd-4850.html

[ExodusC]

These appear to be results that are more comparative to JimmyZ's results.

I'm liking these better than the ones seen on OverclockZone.

[Tuvok-LuR-]

ATI's comeback seems more possible day by day
another price war in the next months, sweet...

[metachronos]

HD4850 > 9800GTX & 880Ultra and sometimes even >GTX 260 o.O
What will the HD4870 do to Nvidia?

Hopefully cause them to drop prices and give Intel an SLI license.

[waver_01]

damn they used 8.5

[w0mbat]

No, they didnt. They used some betadriver but they cant say which one.

[XS Janus]

200$ for Performance superior to 9800GTX and 8800 Ultra!?
Where do I sign?

[cky2k6]

so, what aa problems again? looks like ati is back. now i can sell my nvidia board and 8800's, and finally be able to clock my damn q6600.

[WrigleyVillain]

ATI's comeback seems more possible day by day
another price war in the next months, sweet...

Hopefully cause them to drop prices and give Intel an SLI license.

200$ for Performance superior to 9800GTX and 8800 Ultra!?
Where do I sign?

+1 (or 3 as it were)

[Luka_Aveiro]

200$ for Performance superior to 9800GTX and 8800 Ultra!?

Except here (except 4xaa vs 9800GTX):

http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0023558.gif

Here with no AA (although AA performance is great)

http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0023558.gif

And here:

http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0023564.gif

Here it equals a 9800GTX:

http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0023566.gif

Anyway, pretty damn good card, I specially like 4xAA doesn't take that impact at all, and hope new drivers can even improve farther it's performance.

I will be definitely aiming at an HD4870 1GB

[jas420221]

+2...(or 5 as it now is)

Looks like the monster hit R600 takes in AA is about resolved and back on par ehh?

[generics_user]

ok now i finally believe that the hd4870 is going to be on par with the gtx260 and the 4870 to beat the gtx280

sooo hard, at first i wanted to keep my 3870s, but these results are soooo tempting

most impressive thing is that the card beats the 8800/9800 in almost all games, and performance is much more consistent than with the 3870 (maybe due to the additional TMUs)

[waver_01]

No, they didnt. They used some betadriver but they cant say which one.

oh ok

anyway 4870X2 domination confirmed! = ATI has the crown

[zanzabar]

Hopefully cause them to drop prices and give Intel an SLI license.

why dose intel want that, NV needs an xfire consortium license, they already can use the open standards its just a matter of the drivers blocking it

i wish that there was some gddr4 or some higher clocking CCC for the ram

[jas420221]

oh ok

anyway 4870X2 domination confirmed! = ATI has the crown

Until GTX280x2 comes out.

[Lightning_Rider]

If the HD4870 kills the GTX260 and GTX280 then I might forgo step up to a 260 and just buy an HD4870... Nvidia might be in serious trouble.

[Nedjo]

This will make me reply Bioshock again, but this time on 4850:

[waver_01]

Until GTX280x2 comes out.

sarcasm?

that wont happen until 40nm

[GGuyZ]

Hey guys.

Take a look:

http://hwzone.co.il/reviews/4850_preview/

We've just published an official Sneak Preview/Review of 2 HD4850 cards we are testing. We will update the results further in the following days, but we have perliminary official results now.

Our test machine is very much like the VR-Zone test bed for the GTX 280 review. It seems that in low res/no filters mode, 2 4850CF cards are somewhat stronger than the GTX 280, but they are still weaker when using 16x/8x filters.

In crysis the results are much worse, probably because the cards don't gain much performence in CF mode.

The results are pretty impressive none the less, for both single card usage and CF usage(it's 8x/8x by the way. motherboard's limitation)

[w0mbat]

Great, more to come...