ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB Video Card Preview

Iria · Jun 19, 2008, 06:32 PM

"The retail card that we have is the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850, which features an MSRP of $199 and will be the jewel in the price versus performance charts for months to come. It is also the first card that has a TeraFLOP of compute power. Not bad at all for a price tag of just $199!"
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Zardon · Jun 19, 2008, 06:34 PM

preview?

2 pages of presentation slides from AMDs PDF's and a GPUz screenshot?

Kizo · Jun 19, 2008, 07:01 PM

There is a full review at Guru3D.
Here: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire Force 3D & PowerColor
The review is complete, even with crossfire results. Crysis XFire results seem a bit odd though.

BlueMak · Jun 19, 2008, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kizo

There is a full review at Guru3D.
Here: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire Force 3D & PowerColor
The review is complete, even with crossfire results. Crysis XFire results seem a bit odd though.

All the numbers seem a bit too high, no? Not just for this card, for all.
Basicaly you can play Crysis with a 9600GT at 2500x with all settings at high...yeah right.

LukeK · Jun 19, 2008, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kizo

There is a full review at Guru3D.
Here: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire Force 3D & PowerColor
The review is complete, even with crossfire results. Crysis XFire results seem a bit odd though.

Absolute rubbish. hilbert can't write to save his life. The last one I read had a bloody greek guy from the film 300 over the card with a crap photoshop botch and a load of stupid ass text. such as "this card is a greek powerhouse........ SPARTANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!" (no seriously im not kidding)

Ill wait on driverheavens review, anyone who takes any editorial of guru3d seriously hasn't a clue what they are reading.

humonous · Jun 19, 2008, 10:37 PM

ah come on, guru3d editorials have their place. I read them all the time, mostly for a laugh mind you because the text is so utterly horrific most of us in work just sit around chuckling at the silly humourous jokes (which don't work at all in the contexts of a review). the spartan review was hilarious, I can't remember anything about it apart from the dopey photoshoped pictures with greek characters in them and the text which sounded like a kids book or something.

Kizo · Jun 19, 2008, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeK

Absolute rubbish. hilbert can't write to save his life. The last one I read had a bloody greek guy from the film 300 over the card with a crap photoshop botch and a load of stupid ass text. such as "this card is a greek powerhouse........ SPARTANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!" (no seriously im not kidding)

Ill wait on driverheavens review, anyone who takes any editorial of guru3d seriously hasn't a clue what they are reading.

I agree completely man. I don't actually read the review(stopped reading reviews from Guru3D a long time ago). Just thought it would be interesting to see some numbers. It took me 2min to scan trough the numbers and thats it.

I do comprehend and appreciate the quality of driverheaven and its interviews though. Thats why i am member of this site, and not on guru3d.:P

Cheers.

**Mousey** · Jun 19, 2008, 11:39 PM

Looks more like a HD3850 with a photoshopped heatspreader and GPUz shot to me :/

Jun 19, 2008, 06:32 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB Video Card Preview "The retail card that we have is the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850, which features an MSRP of $199 and will be the jewel in the price versus performance charts for months to come. It is also the first card that has a TeraFLOP of compute power. Not bad at all for a price tag of just $199!" ________________ Source: Legit Reviews Please read our statement on our own preview here.

Jun 19, 2008, 11:39 PM	#8
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,156 Rep Power: 243 System Specs	Looks more like a HD3850 with a photoshopped heatspreader and GPUz shot to me :/ __________________

Jun 19, 2008, 06:34 PM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	preview? 2 pages of presentation slides from AMDs PDF's and a GPUz screenshot?

Jun 19, 2008, 07:01 PM	#3
Kizo HHs Valve fanatic/C++ dev Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 278 Rep Power: 70 System Specs	There is a full review at Guru3D. Here: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire Force 3D & PowerColor The review is complete, even with crossfire results. Crysis XFire results seem a bit odd though.

Jun 19, 2008, 10:37 PM	#6
humonous DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 164 Rep Power: 43	ah come on, guru3d editorials have their place. I read them all the time, mostly for a laugh mind you because the text is so utterly horrific most of us in work just sit around chuckling at the silly humourous jokes (which don't work at all in the contexts of a review). the spartan review was hilarious, I can't remember anything about it apart from the dopey photoshoped pictures with greek characters in them and the text which sounded like a kids book or something.