ATI Radeon HD 4850 Preview: AMD Delivers Performance for the Masses
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on June 19, 2008 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
This benchmark is performed using the 1.5 version of ET:QW, and we recorded our own demo on the island level. The demo isn't very long but tries to stress the GPU a fair amount. We tested with all the settings on their highest level except for AA which was set to 4x in game.
Even more so than in Call of Duty, the 4850 clobbers the 9800 GTX and performs dangerously close to NVIDIA's upper echelon of hardware. Performance at 2560x1600 tapers off quite a bit, but the 4850 still does quite well comparatively. ET:QW being our only OpenGL benchmark, this is quite a surprising result as NVIDIA has always been the goto solution for OpenGL value. This time around they lose out quite handily.
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sapiens74 - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - link
A couple of these sure beats the $650 Nvidia solutionElFenix - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
already there on the eggFITCamaro - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
For $170-175 after rebate no less. I just got a pair of 8800GTS 512s for $170 each. I kinda wish I'd waited now because while the performance is about the same, I wouldn't have had to buy a new motherboard since my P5WDH Deluxe could run Crossfire.BPB - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
$149.99 at BestBuy. Just got 2! They are on the shelves and already marked on sale. VisionTek cards are 25% off this week, so the VisionTek 4850 is $149.99.