First ATI Radeon HD 4850 Reviews Surface

[Guest]

AMD today partially lifted an embargo that prevented hardware review sites from publishing reviews of its upcoming HD 4850 GPU.

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[kelfen]

WOW.. This new memory looks kickass... worth the wait..

 

[Mr_Man]

Radeon HD 4850's are available to order on Newegg, but their 9800GTX's haven't had that price drop yet, and are still around $270 - $300. Score one for AMD/ATI.

 

[harrycat88]

nice price on neweggg.com $199.99 plus around 7 dollars for S&H.
I can't wait until they get the AGP version out.
Yes, the rumors are true. The AGP version is coming in Q3 or Q4.
Not everyone likes PCI-E and I'm one of them.

 

[alfrido]

AGP cards are faster than pci-e.

 

[Gargamel]

yeah AGP is great for those using a computer built 5 years ago......

 

[soloman02]

Um, no they're not Current gen cards are bottle necked by the agp bus so next gen cards like the 4850 will be even further bottle necked. Also, AGP cards need an HSI bridge since they are now pci express native, so you have another potential bottle neck there.

 

[soloman02]

Um, no they're not. Current gen cards are bottle necked by the agp bus so next gen cards like the 4850 will be even further bottle necked. Also, AGP cards need an HSI bridge since they are now pci express native, so you have another potential bottle neck there.

 

[pile]

Great job AMD! Can't wait for 4870X2

 

[deredita]

I am extremely excited by the upcoming 4870 w/ GDDR5 memory. ATI really got me drooling over the possibilities with this new video card.

Lets hope they can get their CPU engineers back on the ball, and come out with some innovative competitive CPUs.

 

[Ixad]

I know that this launch caught everyone, including ATI, a bit off guard. However, when I came to Tom's looking for some information on the latest ATI offering, and find 3 out of the 5 leading stories on the home page are related to stories about NVidia, I find that dissappointing. I like NVidia products, I sure have spent enough on them, but they've been the only game in town for over a year now, and it would be nice to read about something other than the same old same old.

Hopefully we see an in depth head to head between the HD3850 and the 9800GTX, and a further comparison between the HD3850 in XFire and the 9800x2. No offense to the author, but I'd rather read about performance comparisons between graphics cards than the ins and outs of CUDA.

 

[lopopo]

"HD 8450 cards "
can i worke fro tomsHardware$?
.....jk..my handwriting, punctuation and grammar suck too.

 

[Guest]

Great Job!!! Amd is coming back!!! My friend has one already, pretty fast compare to my 9800...

 

[Guest]

Nice work!!!

 

[Guest]

I just bought my 4850 before 5pm today.
Why do you have the wrong release dates for ATI??

 

[Ixad]

[citation][nom]lopopo[/nom]"HD 8450 cards "can i worke fro tomsHardware$?.....jk..my handwriting, punctuation and grammar suck too.[/citation]
Hey, at least they had a "4" in there somewhere. After re-reading my response, I realized I refered to the "3850" rather than "4850" throughout... and no option to edit- Doh!>

 

[Noya]

Is Tom's getting payed by Nvidia not to publish a 4850 article?

Me thinks so.

 

[pulasky]

[citation][nom]Noya[/nom]Is Tom's getting payed by Nvidia not to publish a 4850 article? Me thinks so.[/citation]
Me too that idiots(Nsitia) pay anything.Stupid bastards

 

[pulasky]

The 4850 came in behind the 9800 GTX in Crysis, ET: Quake Wars, Stalker, Ghost Recon and "Grid".In their wet dream ATI in Grid is behind.

 

[amrikove]

I think the 4850 article is coming soon .. just be patient

 

[turbolover22]

I wish i didn't have to make a post in order to enable the 'alert me if new talkback' option. I am interested in the conversation but don't have anything I want to contribute at this time.


Wait I guess I am contributing...

 

[alfrido]

Wait what?
Nvidia is paying them not to post anything bout amd.

Toms a sellout?

 

[chuckshissle]

HD4850 is already out and avialable in Newegg. For $199, this card is by far the best, 55nm, 800 SP, power efficient and excellent HD capability.

 

[zarksentinel]

low power consumption (110 watt),deliver high performance . nice job !!

 

[harrycat88]

I agree with Alfredo, AGP cards are faster then PCI-E is, it's a proven fact.
As for the AGP being out dated, yeah right!
My motherboard isn't even 6 months old yet.
I'm running the ASROCK Frankenstein motherboard which is a very handy board because I have better uses for the PCI-E slot then dropping a bottlenecking, CPU cycle wasting PCI-E video card in it.