HD 4850 Fiesta!
BuddyJ
Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
<p>NVIDIA and ATI have been playing games all week trying to get the media's attention, but today ATI seems to have grabbed the spotlight by allowing benchmarks for the HD 4850 to be published. Here's the skinny:</p>
<p>Guru3D has <a href="http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/">tested the PowerColor and Force3D cards</a>; both reference designs. Each card individually and then together in a Crossfire setup.</p>
<p>They sum it up nicely:
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<blockquote>Let me be short and frank here. At 199 USD this is just a bitching nice product.</blockquote>
<p>Hexus drops a quick summary using a Sapphire branded model. They, too, came away pleased. If you want raw game fps numbers, look no <a href="http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=13919&page=1">further</a>.</p>
<p>The guys at TweakTown have been busting at the seams all week to finally get to publish their numbers. They ran <a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1471/sapphire_radeon_hd_4850_in_crossfire/index.html">two Sapphire cards in CrossFire</a>. At stock clock speeds, their staff was blown away by the Crossfire setup, and they wonder what will happen when overclocked cards hit the streets. They went one step further and <a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1470/radeon_hd_4850_in_crossfire_at_4ghz/index.html">benched on a 4 GHz Intel rig</a>, too.</p>
<p>Guru3D has <a href="http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/">tested the PowerColor and Force3D cards</a>; both reference designs. Each card individually and then together in a Crossfire setup.</p>
<p>They sum it up nicely:
</p>
<blockquote>Let me be short and frank here. At 199 USD this is just a bitching nice product.</blockquote>
<p>Hexus drops a quick summary using a Sapphire branded model. They, too, came away pleased. If you want raw game fps numbers, look no <a href="http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=13919&page=1">further</a>.</p>
<p>The guys at TweakTown have been busting at the seams all week to finally get to publish their numbers. They ran <a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1471/sapphire_radeon_hd_4850_in_crossfire/index.html">two Sapphire cards in CrossFire</a>. At stock clock speeds, their staff was blown away by the Crossfire setup, and they wonder what will happen when overclocked cards hit the streets. They went one step further and <a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1470/radeon_hd_4850_in_crossfire_at_4ghz/index.html">benched on a 4 GHz Intel rig</a>, too.</p>
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Lanbox 2.0 is already in the planning stages.
Yeah I think I am seeing at least one in my future. This really makes me anxious for the 4870 which from what I can see will run GDDR5 near 3GHz and almost double the memory bandwidth of the 4850.