ATi HD4850 released early
ATi HD4850 released early
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Um, me?RobThePyro wrote:Note the AA scores, the other ones dont really count, cause who ACTUALLY plays without AA on?...
Please, don't think that everyone NEEDS AA.
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For anyone looking for a 4850:
http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/digit ... -1818.html
Stock will be in on Thursday and price may drop (depending on Rand/Dollar).
http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/digit ... -1818.html
Stock will be in on Thursday and price may drop (depending on Rand/Dollar).
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I do. 1152X864 is not a high res and so I need the smoothing otherwise everything looks like an 8 year old drew it..or myself...either way it's bad.RobThePyro wrote:Note the AA scores, the other ones dont really count, cause who ACTUALLY plays without AA on?...
Soon Google will know everything...including how to divide by zero
Unless you have a 24" 1200p or 30" 1600p display, AA is important. On those screens AA doesn't make much difference.
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Here are some more benchmarks... Sorry it's a german site, but the game names (on the right) are still english and fps numbers is a global language
I am surprised to see how near the 4850 gets to the 9800gtx, even beating it on some tests. If the 4850 is starting on about R2800, and maybe less, would it be worth it to save a few hundred for very near 9800gtx performance?
In the past I've hear bad news about ATI drivers, is this still a problem?
And what about the new drivers for Nvidia that is suppost to make it a 9800gtx+ or something?
Here are some more benchmarks... Sorry it's a german site, but the game names (on the right) are still english and fps numbers is a global language
I am surprised to see how near the 4850 gets to the 9800gtx, even beating it on some tests. If the 4850 is starting on about R2800, and maybe less, would it be worth it to save a few hundred for very near 9800gtx performance?
In the past I've hear bad news about ATI drivers, is this still a problem?
And what about the new drivers for Nvidia that is suppost to make it a 9800gtx+ or something?
ATI have been plagued with poor driver support both in the actual script of the driver as well as the fact that they released maybe 4 updates a year (if we were lucky). But those days are over now and we can see the maturity of the development team starting to show as Crossfire scales so much better than SLi and there are continual updates for mother motherboards as well as graphics cards.
BTW price dropped this morning to R2499.00 on the HIS 4850 cards!
BTW price dropped this morning to R2499.00 on the HIS 4850 cards!
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Yaksemash! You will take some of my money August at the latest.andyddr wrote:ATI have been plagued with poor driver support both in the actual script of the driver as well as the fact that they released maybe 4 updates a year (if we were lucky). But those days are over now and we can see the maturity of the development team starting to show as Crossfire scales so much better than SLi and there are continual updates for mother motherboards as well as graphics cards.
BTW price dropped this morning to R2499.00 on the HIS 4850 cards!
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As far as performance goes the ATI 4850 is the better card of the two and does also support DX10.1 (for whatever it's worth). Another plus is the HD performance of the ATI cards.
Seems like the 4850 is soon going to become the new 8800GT in it becoming the mainstream gaming card.
I'll try getting a card off to PCFormat's reviewers so we can see what this card really can do.
BTW we're giving away a HIS 4850 to one lucky customer who buys any hardware to the value of R2K or more from Landmark in the months of June/July
Seems like the 4850 is soon going to become the new 8800GT in it becoming the mainstream gaming card.
I'll try getting a card off to PCFormat's reviewers so we can see what this card really can do.
BTW we're giving away a HIS 4850 to one lucky customer who buys any hardware to the value of R2K or more from Landmark in the months of June/July
Going from 8800GT -> HD 4850 isn't really worth it, unless you're planning to go crossfire. Then you'll see big boosts. Upgrading just one card you might see 5-15% improvement in benchmark scores, it's hard to actually see any difference in games.Andy, you are seriously tempting me to sell off the 8800GT and buy one of these
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Well according to the link posted by animal, to me the increase looks a bit more than 5-15%. Altough the 8800gt wasn't tested, it is about the same as the 9600gt, a bit more maybe. But I didn't do the math to check %, so I might be wrong.Hex_Rated wrote:Going from 8800GT -> HD 4850 isn't really worth it, unless you're planning to go crossfire. Then you'll see big boosts. Upgrading just one card you might see 5-15% improvement in benchmark scores, it's hard to actually see any difference in games.
But still, if I sell my 8800gt, I only have to cash in a very small amount for something that is better and with dx10.1 support (for whatever it's worth)...
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