AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire - 1 - A red introduction

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/19/2008 01:00 PM [ ] 0 comment(s)

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 review

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Force3D Radeon HD 4850 (info)
Powercolor Radeon HD 4850 (info)

AMD Radeon HD 4850 Hey everybody and welcome to yet again a new graphics technology release. It is only a few days ago since NVIDIA released their new flagship product the, GeForce GTX 200 series. Obviously they did that really strategically; shortly before AMD's launch of their Radeon series 4000 products. While NVIDIA is at the high-end with that particular product release, AMD does things a bit different. See, AMDs new products are targeted at the mainstream market, well slightly above it actually. The products announced will be twofold, the Radeon 4850 and 4870. The new leading mainstream products that quite frankly definitely do pack some really good punch.

So the rumors you heard were definitely true, the new product has a near billion counting transistor count, 800 shader cores and will come in both GDDR3 and GDDR5 flavors.

Most interesting will be AMD's pricing point, the Radeon 4850 (GDDR3) for example will start at a price of 199 USD. All in loads to talk and write about.

Initially this review was planned for next week, AMD however moved the release date upwards five days as apparantly the Radeon HD 4850 is already available in a lot of shops. So despite having a really stressful day, we think we can bring you a pretty decent and solid review today. And we did our best to get you a complete overview, so this review will cover AMD Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire results as well.

This launch definitely should be an interesting one, so therefore let's startup the review party people, it's definitely a good time to be in the wonderful graphics land right now for sure. Okay then, ready for the introduction of AMD's Radeon HD 4850 series?

Well my man .. head on over to the next page then.

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 review

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