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ATI Radeon HD 4850 Graphics Card Onsale Now
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 2:59 AM on June 21, 2008
With ATI's latest Radeon graphics card already getting benchmarked, I guess cardmakers decided it was silly to wait until June 25 for the official unveil--pretty much everybody is popping the Radeon HD 4850 right now--they're all over Newegg and assorted other merchants. Built on a 55nm process with 512MB of DDR3 memory running at 1986MHz and a clock speed of 625MHz, it's got 480 stream processors (480 was old number, it's actually 800) and support CrossFireX up to four graphics cards. While the MSRP is US$199, you can pick one up for about US$174.99 after rebate. [Newegg]
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soggy_cheerio
Posted 3:55 AM 21/6/08
More like, all three.
soggy_cheerio
soggy_cheerio
Posted 3:53 AM 21/6/08
@willyolio: It has more to do with the physical size of the gpu packaging rather than the cooler and the ram.
soggy_cheerio
Anubis LG
Posted 3:50 AM 21/6/08
Gah....this is seeming like a tempting buy...
Or should I wait/save money for another card?
Oh, choises choises. . .anyone have ideas?
Anubis LG
willyolio
Posted 3:41 AM 21/6/08
@drewbyh:
no such thing. low profile = low end budget card. performance cards need the extra space for the cooler and RAM.
willyolio
regnez
Posted 3:39 AM 21/6/08
@drewbyh:
Compare it to the GTX 280 and everything is low profile.
I keed, I keed. But seriously.
regnez
drewbyh
Posted 3:36 AM 21/6/08
Anyone know of a low profile version of this card? Finding a high end video card in low profile ain't easy. Thanks
drewbyh
altf4
Posted 3:36 AM 21/6/08
Do they make and ISA version?
altf4
aR-Tard
Posted 3:35 AM 21/6/08
Only $199 for something that ends with X850? Unless the numbering conventions changed...looks like a damn good deal!
aR-Tard
drum
Posted 3:33 AM 21/6/08
ya ^ 800 stream processors
drum
willyolio
Posted 3:31 AM 21/6/08
correction: it's got 800 stream processors. best card of the year. it forced nVidia to desperately drop the price of the 9800GTX to stay competitive.
willyolio
Cobolman2
Posted 4:48 AM 21/6/08
Naw, low profile cards are half-height (or thereabouts), for fitting into slim media center cases and the like.
And yeah, you never get good cards in low-profile. You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Cobolman2
CrzzyDggy
Posted 4:35 AM 21/6/08
@drewbyh: If, by low-profile, you mean single-slot, then you're in luck since the 4850 is a single-slot card. However, it will dump the same amount of heat into your case as a 9800 GTX, its closest competitor, which uses a dual-slot solution.
CrzzyDggy
LastVigilante
Posted 4:31 AM 21/6/08
Gah, geeze. I just spent the same amount on a 8800GTS with only (ha! only) 128 stream processors. But its got a core clock of 678MHz versus this one's 625MHz. Bah, whatever.
LastVigilante
jmurph05
Posted 4:18 AM 21/6/08
@Anubis LG: no ideas, I'm in the same boat. My PCI X1550 is good but not good enough. I want to keep the ATI, but the Nvidia ones are looking better and better
jmurph05
tarrantm
Posted 5:18 AM 21/6/08
@aR-Tard:
X850 is the midrange card. x870 is the higher end card that should be released soon enough. I'm guessing the x870 will go for about $230+ if the x850 is only going for $199.
tarrantm
Captain_Collide
Posted 4:57 AM 21/6/08
Curse my 4 year old motherboard and it's AGP interface.
Captain_Collide
cloudnine
Posted 5:45 AM 21/6/08
Now if I could just find a way to put this in my iMac. :P
cloudnine
PigVenus
Posted 6:23 AM 21/6/08
From what I've read, this is a good deal as you can always add another card for Crossfire and get at or near GTX 280 performance in nearly everything.
PigVenus
Anubis LG
Posted 8:05 AM 21/6/08
Hmmm, that new Benchmark on the Nvidia is looking far better....
Now my other problem....Momo board only supports ATI Crossfire....so getting two cards to erk out the performace gains near a GTX 280 as PigVenus said, OR...just get the single Nvidia that in the Bench pumps this card out....ugh...
Anubis LG
willyolio
Posted 11:35 AM 21/6/08
@soggy_cheerio:
no, the size of the GPU is pretty inconsequential. the low-end cards, such as the 3450, for example, have the same GPU as the 3870, except with parts of it disabled, and runs at a slower frequency.
it's stuff like the extra RAM, voltage regulators, and the larger cooler that make it a full height card.
willyolio