Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Review
Hardware Canucks has posted a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD4850 512MB graphics card.
Let’s see what they had to say:
“As we saw in the tests, the Sapphire HD4850 excels in high texture, high AA situations, DX10 applications and higher resolutions. It is here that this new ATI core can really stretch its legs over the competition while keeping power consumption to a minimum. The new ATI is all about performance per watt and they have really held onto that mantra with this card since in this area as well it has run like a lightning bolt through the industry. There isn’t a single application where we see the HD4850 coming up short and this is on beta drivers. I think this driver situation in itself is extremely interesting since ATI has shown in the past that they can unlock some pretty significant performance gains through driver updates.”
The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850, much like every other HD 4850 model, is an excellent graphics card.
Even with the recent aggressive price cuts on the GeForce 9800GTX, the HD 4850 is still the much better value, especially when you take into account the additional performance that will undoubtedly be extracted via future driver releases.
Click here to read the full review.
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