ATI Radeon HD 4850 Review: Show Me The Ruby
AMD is proudly bringing PC gamers 1.0 TeraFLOP Graphics Performance, with a single GPU that consumes only 110W of power in the HD 4850. Going head to head with the 8800GTX, 8800GTS & GT, and 9600GT series of cards. Developing a new TeraScale graphics engine, AMD is excited to deliver an impassive experience for gaming. With enhanced anti-aliasing 24X (AA) and AF, gamers will find a new realism more improved than previous versions of cards that all had AA and AF flickering sporadic problems. You’ve read our Cinema 2.0 coverage and are waiting for our detailed article on the latest 4800 series line, including ATI Radeon HD 4870 details. Now, we want to reveal one part with the ATI Radeon HD 4850 that should provide a glimpse into the new series line. With power that supports DX 10.1 fully unlike the GTX 200’s, the ATI Radeon HD 4850 brings efficiency together against the competition through features such as ATI Powerplay and ATI Avivo HD to give gamers a more enhanced experience all around.
Let’s take a look at the key features:
- 512MB GDDR3 Memory
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Core Clock: 625MHz
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Single Slot
- 2.0 Gbps
- 110W Power Requirement
- 256-bit memory interface
- DirectX 10.1 Support
- 24x custom filter AA and high performance AF
- ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for scalable performance
- PCI-E 2.0 support
- ATI Avivio HD video and display technology for Blu-ray and 7.1 surround sound support with On-Chip HDCPd
- ATI Powerplay
Let’s go on to the test system.
Epic Review. Thx.
PCTechNerd replied on June 19, 2008 3:20 AM:
Agree here
Oh shnaps. Better AA and AF. Final Fking ly
wiseguy272 replied on June 19, 2008 4:52 AM:
I know. I’ve been wanting this for a long time. Had flickering problems.
Extremely great review as usual. Silver sounds about right
wiseguy272 replied on June 19, 2008 4:54 AM:
Yeah. I saw silver and was happy it wasn’t gold. Gold is really for the really really good ones.
Wow, nice
Great exclusive review. Love it
Woah a teraFLOP. That’s insane!
bbflynn replied on June 19, 2008 3:12 AM:
I know right? I remember it took like a whole room of freaking computers to do that just in the 90’s.
Monolith2001 replied on June 19, 2008 3:25 AM:
Teraflop is an immense step up. NVIDIA is still way below that. And only at 110W. NICE
Nice stuff
AMD isn’t joking around. Cinema 2.0 was a disappointment, but this is right on the money.
PCTechNerd replied on June 19, 2008 3:28 AM:
Yeah. I’ll count you on that. They really did push through this time. Applause is needed
Full DX 10.1 support. Count me in. Going to wait for the 4870 review, might buy that
Seriously impressed. Silver is really damn good.
Very impressed here. Might buy this. Waiting on more stuff.
Wow wow wow wow. Nice. Read an unofficial review elsewhere, but this one I like.
wiseguy272 replied on June 19, 2008 4:55 AM:
Same here. Was some dude who got it from a site. But it’s out in the best buy I’m at. Going to buy one soon =D
This is definitely better than the 65nm GTX 200 architecture. NVIDIA played it safe this time. Sad
Monolith2001 replied on June 19, 2008 3:28 AM:
This is 55nm according to the review. Smaller is more scalable. Way way better
BF works at best buy and sneaked one of these out. We currently have it
Does what it says
NVIDIA lost. End story
Monolith2001 replied on June 19, 2008 3:28 AM:
Seriously
And NVIDIA goes down hard Wham
Monolith2001 replied on June 19, 2008 3:26 AM:
Yeah definitely
NVIDIA = owned. Definitely. GDDR5>GDDR3
Awesome review. Thanks 4 this
Cool stuff. Got this from Gizmodo AU.
I like what I see. Better than my friends 8800GTX? He can play crysis high on 1024x. This is all I need.
As a serious enthusiast like the rest of you, can’t disagree. NVIDIA sucks this time
Read right now.
I really knew they would come through to this card.
Thanks you,
Vash
K.O. NVIDIA
Yeah. These specs just make me want 4870. Going to buy this though. $199 can’t be beat.
Going to buy this for my MMO experience. Thanks WhatIf