ATI HD 4850 CrossFire

ATI HD 4850 CrossFire

Roydon Cerejo, Sep 10, 2008 1502 hrs IST

If you thought a single HD4850 was good, wait till you see what two of them can do.

Best performance in the price segment, Faster than the GTX280.

Gets hot, Consumes 15%(average)more power than a HD4870.

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Buying the right graphics card is probably one of the most crucial decisions for a gamer. However, buying it without the proper research could be the biggest mistake one could possibly make. If you are serious about your gaming and own a 22-inch monitor and above, or are planning on purchasing one in the future, then you would probably be looking at a card somewhere in the range of 10K to 15K. This will ensure that all of today's games can be played comfortably at the max settings.

But for those that own a 24-inch monitor or above, it becomes difficult for a single card to max out the graphical settings at a resolution of 1920x1200. This is where SLI and CrossFire actually make sense. First you're going to need a CrossFire/SLI motherboard to begin with and today these motherboards are quite affordable unlike earlier.

After that you have to decide which graphics card you are going to use for the SLI/CrossFire setup. Recently, ATI's HD 4850 has really
caused a frenzy in the industry and has once again raised the bar
previously set by Nvidia's 8800GT in the budget performance sector.

That's exactly what we are going to focus on today, as we CrossFire two HD4850's just to have an idea of how well it scales in today's games and also how is stacks up against a single high-end card like the HD4870 or the GTX280.
First let's take a look at the cards and how they compare against each other.

The Contenders



First up is of course ATI's HD4850's, each having a 625MHz core frequency while the memory is clocked at 1986MHz effective. Each come with 800 stream processors giving you a total of 1,600 processors dedicated for graphics work. Next up is the HD4850's elder sibling the HD4870 that has very similar specifications apart from the GDDR5 memory.

Next are the two GTX brothers, the 280 and the 260 that are Nvidia's top offerings at the moment. I've also included some SLI scores of the 8800GT and the 9600GT for those of you who own an SLI board, you could consider two 8800GT's or 9800GT's since the price has dropped quite low and is available for under 8K.

Now without wasting any more time let's begin with the testing.

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can you pls tell who is the expert who reviewed this? This article is a direct rip-off copy of exactly same content from the net...from another hardware forum. the expectation is when you copy, the least you can do is change the words and sentences !! anyway can you pls ask the reviewer of this to get in touch with me?

by anand jakati, chandigarh, on Nov 01, 2008 03:39 PM, Report abuse   Reply

wow... this looks amazing... imagine if the Hydra platform comes out this value could go up even more!!!!

by zach, bangalore, on Sep 12, 2008 10:08 AM, Report abuse   Reply

SAPPHIRE 100242TXSR Radeon Toxic HD 4850 has a better cooler and oc capabilities in other words its the best HD4850 card in the market at present.

by GuZzY, New Delhi, on Sep 11, 2008 02:14 PM, Report abuse   Reply

thanx guzzy, you helped me alot to choose from

by bhavin, ahmedabad, on Sep 12, 2008 09:03 AM, Report abuse

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