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
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Assassin's Creed
Another FRAPS benchmark, in Assassin's Creed we found a repeatable area of the game to benchmark at the opening of a memory. In this test, we start walking and benchmarking as soon as the memory finishes fading in and we stop as soon as we trigger the next cut scene. We test with AA disabled in all resolutions as AA isn't available above 1680x1050. Because the negative impact of the patch on the performance of AMD cards only happens with AA enabled, we do test with the latest patch applied.
The margin isn't as large as in some of the other games we've tested, but the 4850 does mantain a performance advantage over the 9800 GTX. Again, the margin also narrows as resolution increases, but the 4850 still remains on top.
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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.