Tuesday, September 16th 2008
Radeon HD 4850 X2 Priced at $399, Claims to Outperform GTX 280
The battle for supremacy in the current generation of consumer graphics hasn't calmed down as yet. Just as reports came in of NVIDIA giving the GeForce GTX 260 a boost with its shader compute power by enabling 24 shader units, taking on the Radeon HD 4870, GeForce GTX 280 seems to be enjoying its $420~$440 price-tag. For sure it isn't the fastest graphics accelerator but its compelling price tag is what is drawing buyers away from the HD 4870 X2.
AMD had already announced in its press release for the Radeon HD 4870 X2 launch that it would release a HD 4850 X2 at a roughly $400 price range. That moment seems to be coming closer, when ATI has a graphics card for $399, that outperforms the GeForce GTX 280. Three slides from the company have surfaced. The first one lists out its vital specifications, including its maximum power draw, rated at 230W. The memory bandwidth of this card is 128 GB/s, and it ends up with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.
The second slide shows some company performance figures, which claim that the HD 4850 X2 could be up to 40% faster than the GeForce GTX 280 in some games, with an overall lead across all tests mentioned. The third slide shows how ATI is stacked up against NVIDIA in Q3, however, the entry of the revised GTX 260 could disturb that chart.
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Expreview
AMD had already announced in its press release for the Radeon HD 4870 X2 launch that it would release a HD 4850 X2 at a roughly $400 price range. That moment seems to be coming closer, when ATI has a graphics card for $399, that outperforms the GeForce GTX 280. Three slides from the company have surfaced. The first one lists out its vital specifications, including its maximum power draw, rated at 230W. The memory bandwidth of this card is 128 GB/s, and it ends up with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.
71 Comments on Radeon HD 4850 X2 Priced at $399, Claims to Outperform GTX 280
Are you saying its the same charts rebadged?
(In converse, the 4870's GDDR5 paired with a 256-bit bus is very efficient at high resolutions, but that GDDR5 is expensive as hell. :p)
Maybe stuff's different now -- it's been a while since I really noticed in reviews. Maybe with newer GDDR3 clocked really, really high it might be different -- any reviews show this?
www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3372
www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4870-X2--AMD-Back-On-Top/?page=2
on 4870x2 launch day .
But yeah, we need some performance charts -- maybe ATI pulled it off (GDDR3 with 256-bit bus). They've always been slightly better with "memory management at high resolutions" (or at least that's what reviews are always saying ;)).
Will it make a difference in performance? I have no idea.:confused:
If AMD doesn't start profiting and paying off its debts, ATi will fall within it in bankruptsy. Thats the real coffin.
I hope they start being more competitive in their other markets or there will be no competition whatsoever when AMD falls. :(
Its good ATi is getting a bigger piece of the pie, but AMD is eating it, not ATi.