HD 4870 & HD 4850 Review

[Clunk]

Let’s look back, and count our fingers: after AMD launched Radeon HD 3800 series cards, NVIDIA have debut lots of graphic cards with good performance, but AMD fail to bring any new product, just keep shrinking and shrinking its RV670, looking for market share in mid-entry market.
But now, the time has come. AMD finally revealed their latest product, RV770. After more than half year’s developing and polishing, will it performs better than RV670 in the market, how’s its performance?
With the thought, we went to Hongkong and bought some HD 4850 and HD 4870. After day and night busy benching, here is the review...
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[Kelainefes]

All i can say is WOW! Does the HD4870 deliver!
It has a small lead overall all games and benchmarks over the GTX260, and in a few test catches up even with the GTX280 and the 9800 GX2!!!
I'm wondering if nVIDIA has cut some power off the GTX 2x0 cards with the drivers to finish selling the 9800GX2 stocks, and then unleash the full power later. They did the same with the 8800GTX and the 7950GX2.
but only time will tell, and we can see that a single HD4870 is enough for everything except Crysis at max details, and even there a single GTX280 is not much better.
This means, that come August the ATI 4870X2 will take the single card performance crown.
With this and the no Nehalem chipset license, things don't look to good for the green corner now.
Their salvation might be CUDA and the fanboys base they created with the G80-G92 domination in this last 18 months.

[Clunk]

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[Kelainefes]

[Clunk]

It's about time something went AMD's way

[Kelainefes]

Yeah i mean right now the top dog performance wise is still nVIDIA, but if you look at the prices... the HD4870 will be around 250 euros, if rumors are true, but the GTX260 is 380! And the HD4870 is slightly faster, expecially with AA and AF enabled, wich has been green territory for more than a year and a half! And the 4850 does the same to the 9800GTX, wich again performs similarly but costs more, and this forced nVIDIA to lower prices and make a ridicolous 9800GTX+ wich you will need to overclock to gain a small advantage over the HD4850, but will cost significantly more...
With the HD4870x2 in a good position to take the performance crown, nVIDIA better get some uber drivers out already.
Aw and if AMD makes a decent tri CrossfireX motherboard that could help sell some of those new quads they got.

[IceChant]

I'm looking into this review right now but as it sounds I'm taking the HD4870 to my build it's even cheaper but I'm still thinking about getting 8600 or something like that in 150 NIS's for now to wait for the companies build non-reference cards.

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[Kelainefes]

3850 owns the 8600, and is priced very low.
You also stand a better chance at selling a HD3850 than the 8600.

[GSte]

Your review not work Mr.Clunk sir, link not work neither, is website take it down for NDA you think? (I am practising my Chinese English in case you couldn't tell )