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Mid-Range Graphics Card Showdown: Nvidia 9800 GTX+ Slides Past ATI Radeon HD 4850
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 6:59 AM on June 21, 2008
Poised and waiting for ATI's latest graphics card to hit, Nvidia immediately fired off the 9800 GTX+, a nimbler version of its behemoth 9800 GTX, aggressively priced at US$229 to put serious pressure on the US$199 HD 4850. Benchmarks comparing the two weren't available yesterday, but PC Perspective has 'em up now. In short, while the HD 4850 can mostly keep up with Nvidia's older, regular 9800 GTX, the steroid-injected 9800 GTX+ has enough juice to edge it out in almost every single benchmark. The Radeon HD 4850 has about a month on the shelf to itself before the 9800 GTX+ hits though. Check out PC Perspective for more graphs and numbers than your brain wants to deal with on a Friday. [PC Perspective via Engadget]
Tags: ati | gaming | geforce | graphics cards | hardware | nvidia | pcs | radeon
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Greg
Posted June 24, 2008 6:51 AM
The 4850 is very...VERY... overclockable...
Lets just wait for the oc'd versions of the 4850 to come out. Asus, Sapphire, etc. will definitely slap on better coolers and clock these cards to at least par results.
Catalyst
Posted 7:29 AM 21/6/08
Not a one of their benchmarks had AA enabled, which is where the 4850 is supposed to shine, according to other benchmarks I have seen floating around.
Catalyst
sisedi
Posted 7:17 AM 21/6/08
I think in terms of average FPS, it's practically a negligible difference.
sisedi
Y2KGTP
Posted 7:13 AM 21/6/08
I just bought a 8800GT last week....waiting till next month for it to be obsolete and run new games....
Y2KGTP
tonyn84
Posted 7:32 AM 21/6/08
huh, yet another nvidia card that doesn't really distinguish itself from the cards they already make...bravo green.
tonyn84
Catalyst
Posted 7:31 AM 21/6/08
Actually, Call of Duty did, but Crysis didn't. Maybe neither card could hack it for Crysis with AA on.
Catalyst
dnzperson
Posted 11:07 AM 21/6/08
Damn lack of edit: The 4850 can be picked up on newegg for $170 after rebate, not bad - [www.newegg.com]
How much are the 9800's going for?
dnzperson
dnzperson
Posted 11:05 AM 21/6/08
The benchmarks I've seen show the 4850 to be slighty better than the 9800 GTX, which is reasonable considering they are now both the same price.
From those benchmarks on PC Perspective it look as though the GTX+ trumps the 4850 in every test, but it's to be expected considering the bumped up clock speed and price.
It will be interesting to see later this week how the 4870 will perform, and it's nice that ATI (whoops, AMD) are giving NVIDIA some competition again. The green machines offerings (especially the 200's) have been a bit disappointing lately.
dnzperson
sisedi
Posted 12:50 PM 21/6/08
@dnzperson: For a moment I thought you meant the old Radeons of old, the literal king of graphic cards back when I was just getting into PCs, ahh good ol' days. Do you remember wanting that puppy sooo bad?
And look at it now...a geezer by today's standards.
sisedi
desostros
Posted 7:20 PM 21/6/08
Cool thing is that the 9800GTX isnt the flagship nvidiacard, but hell, it belongs to the top.
The 4850 is the midrange, lowbudget card from Ati and its performing on par.
This graph is pretty funny and desperate, if you think about it.
And i just bought a SLI mobo....christ
desostros
fusiongt
Posted 8:33 PM 21/6/08
Man I don't get why the 8800gt and 8800gtx are still just as good as these new cards... The jump from 7800 to 8800 was huge, so why is it the 8800 to 9800 jump so pathetic?
fusiongt
Terberculosis
Posted 3:12 PM 21/6/08
@sisedi: I too recall the glory days of the 9800 Pro. It was my first PC build. Kinda sad, but I remember that night more fondly than I do my first girlfriend.
I'm going to go drink and rearrange cables in my new box to optimize air flow while I cry about how sad my life is.
Terberculosis
Absent Blue
Posted 4:43 AM 22/6/08
@fusiongt: The 8800GT and 9800GTX+ use the exact same GPU, the G92 (the 8800GTS/X use G88, still a power-house). The 9800 cards should have been better but I would have personally marketed them as 8900 and 8950 ;) ala the 7000 series.
They did just release the GTX 200 series, despite a new GPU it still doesn't seem to be as impressive as the 8800s. So it looks like I picked the right time to finally buy the baddest card on the market when they came out cause it's still close to the baddest card on the market a year and a half later.
Absent Blue
know1
Posted 8:10 AM 22/6/08
Doesn't anyone seem to notice that the OC'ed 8800 beats both of the newer cards on that single benchmark?
know1
bobide
Posted 11:03 AM 22/6/08
@Absent Blue:
8800GTS is avaliable with the G92.
The 200 series is still using a similar layout as the G92, just scaled up for more power.
It's sad that a SLI'd 8800gt can run w/ the 280 nvidia is offering and at half the price too.
bobide
JEmlay
Posted 7:12 AM 21/6/08
Get ready to see this time and time again. This has been Nvidias plan for a LONG TIME. They already have cards waiting to be released and wont do as such until ATI releases something of thier own.
NVIDIA wants to be a FEW steps ahead of ATI at all times.
JEmlay