http://techreport.com/articles.x/14967

9800gtx takes a beating here. Looks like 4870 might be able to beat 260 after all. Looking at some of the bandwidth limited situations is where 4850 starts to lose its momentum vs 260gtx.

Nice find, thanx

another one :
http://www.hothardware.com/News/AT [...] neak_Peek/

Well it beats the 9800GTX in almost every benchmark but the difference isn't very much bit it has a very good price

Christopherr, stop spamming. You just made a new account huh? Everybody knows your old one with "Power Index".

Wow.. what an awsome series.

ATI really got it rigth... They fixed up the 38xx's and made a beast of a card.

The fanboi's just cant handle the fact that ATI released a better smaller more power saving higher performing quieter card at the 200$ price point than Nvidia would have let go at the 400$ price point.

I was waiting for this review, wish I had time to read it, oh well after work.

Oh, dang, no technical details, guess they're waiting for the HD4870 for that.

Scott didn't write this article. He was probably busy writing 280gtx so no details. maybe when 4870 comes out.

Awesome. This is exactly what I was looking for. Cheap and fast. I wonder how it will do when OCed.

Don't you find it odd that most websites show the 4850 behind the gtx260 or just above the 9800GTX in 22"-24" res, yet this site shows the 4850 beating the gtx260 single gpu vs single gpu in Call of duty 4 at 22" and near matching it at 24" res?

The unpatched Assassin's creed test wasn't a surprise, but yea - I found that a little inconsistant.


http://www.anandtech.com/video/sho [...] i=3338&p=7 anand's review shows this~

From what I see, the 4850 exchanges results with the 3870 X2 just like the GX2 exchanges with the 280 GTX.

At High resolution the 4850 has the Advantage because of the ram

The thing I hate about Nvidia is the 280 GTX has 1 gig but their 260 has 800 or so....my god are they really that cheap? geez....

Ati approached the situation very clever by making both cards 1 gig and attracting the mainstream users with the RAm

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/am [...] /page9.asp

4850HD vs 9800GTX+

these results look more realistic

Bleh, I hate to say this but I am kinda with a few other people and I really thing the performance of the 4850 single might be getting bloated by some of the reviewers taking selective benches as the norm

I think the 4850 outperforming the 9800GTX vanilla is pretty normal, but the 4850 coming within a hair of the gtx260 looks pretty shady to me lol

^ yeah ill have to be skeptical as well. I mean every1 saw the GX2 results before launch and the 280 GTX scores not really to par


EDIT: I just saw that, the charts have a 9800 GTX+???? :|

yea, looks pretty good so far

I don't think i'd buy the 9800GTX+ myself, but i bet it overclocks like a dandy

Every website have a different way of benchmarking. One might use a timedemo and other might use fraps. Even when using fraps 1 might be using different map or area of map, drivers, test setup, etc,... There are many variables to benchmarking. What I do know that 4850 is slightly ahead of 9800gtx especially with AA.

Anandtech is showing same kind of results where 4850 is substantially faster @ 1600x1200 compared to 9800gtx. I trust anandtech and techreport over Firingsquad. Firingsquad just benches or game reviews. They never ever do anything technically inclined.

well Ill have to trust you because of your bomb review ont he 8800 GS haha

HD 4850 = Better performance (Not much) than a 9800GTX in almost all games with a lower price

i cant belive the temp is the highest from all...in guru3d.com they say oposite what tha frack with those reviews, who can we trust ???????

and what the frack is going on with this topic and allways keeps farwarding at egg.com???

Well still not enough technical details out there, but the one thing I did take away from this review was the power and heat figures, not as it relates to the desktop space (it's a single slot cooler against a bunch of dual slots) but as a notebook part there's little chance cooling would be anywhere near that good, and a higher idle power useage than the HD3870, GTX260/280 means a lot of idle power usage and pretty much a requirement no option of CrossfireX hybrid power.

I was hoping for an HD4850 style GPU in the HP HDX by the fall, but unless they get a sweet mature silicon helper, this looks still a little warm and power hungry for a straight mobile part swap, unlike was initially rumoured (which would mean quick introduction into laptops).

Oh well, hopefully they get something close to similar by September.