HD4850X2 review

[desiibond]

^^ Yes. They are planning their attack. Expect something solid from them soon.

 

[hellgate]

i'm waiting 4 nVidia to come out with a gr8 gpu.even i'm a nVidia fan but only perf/price ratio made me buy ATi.
1st i'll get the i7 920 rig,after maybe another gpu.

 

[nvidia]

Yeah the new PhysX drivers did improve performance on my rig to some extent... I'm waiting for games to make use of it.. ATi wont stand a chance then.

 

[GauravCJ]

^ really? You heard of li'l dragon?

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

Yeah ur right but nvidia won't sleep for long.
Check *www.techtrance.net/2008/11/pc-hardware-news/nvidia-to-get-40nm-to-gpu-in-2009
I gotta say this site might not have stuff but this one does have some information.

Nvidia will go DDR5 & 40nm finally in 2009! Well ATI is already running on DDR5 but its way too late. Knock knock....wake up nvidia!!

 

[detonator2359]

hw is 4870 vs 4850x2

 

[ultimategpu]

^^ Yes. They are planning their attack. Expect something solid from them soon.

if they launch also their rates will be more than the performance

 

[Zangetsu]

wow...really awesome card + heavy on pocket...

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

hw is 4870 vs 4850x2

4850X2 owns it. Did u checked the review on the first page? 4850X2 performs similar or even better than GTX280.

 

[comp@ddict]

Very very impressive.. Awesome card indeed.

@compaddict: same as?

Well according to reports, the price of HD4870X2 is about 499$ while HD4850X2 has been priced at about 449$ making it unattractive since u can get 2 HD4850's, 2GB RAM, and a CPU cooler for the xtra.

 

[ionicsachin]

if they launch also their rates will be more than the performance

No, thats not the case always....bak in March, when 9600GT was released, it was very decently priced and was a very very good card(using it now), looks like Nvidia is slowly taking budget gamers into account, only extreme performance cards are costly, there are ppl who use tri-sli GT280 and thr are those who still stick with 6600GT

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

Well according to reports, the price of HD4870X2 is about 499$ while HD4850X2 has been priced at about 449$ making it unattractive since u can get 2 HD4850's, 2GB RAM, and a CPU cooler for the xtra.

The cheapest 4870X2 is $509 & the 4850X2 is for $400 & GTX280 selling for $425 on newegg.com
The card is supposed to take on GTX280 so how they could keep such big price difference?
Besides the price chart also says the same.
And if they are counting on the 1GB version, i m sure GTX280 won't let them take away the position.

 

[comp@ddict]

Well, now 2 HD4850's are for about 173+173= 346$ which is unattractive against HD4850X2

 

[desiibond]

The cheapest 4870X2 is $509 & the 4850X2 is for $400 & GTX280 selling for $425 on newegg.com
The card is supposed to take on GTX280 so how they could keep such big price difference
Besides the price chart also says the same.
And if they are counting on the 1GB version, i m sure GTX280 won't let them take away the position.

yeah. GTX295 is released now and is available for 500$. I think it's time for price cut on HD4870 X2.

and HD4850X2 price is now 300$. Thats 15k rupees. It's steal if you can get it from US.

HD4870x2 is retailing for $450 in some stores

 

[LoRdKsHiTiJ]

end result is - nvidia still has the edge over ati.
with addition of physx & more games being designed to take advantage of that fact makes it even more tougher for ati to come up & retain the title of best gpu performance.

and dont forget, ati kept the title with itself for only 6 months till nvidia took it back with its gtx 285 & gtx 295 gpus.

ati has already been running on gddr5 whereas nvidia will be switching to gddr5 NOW. ati might lose the race again for quite sometime.

 

[spidy333]

I think for Nvidia 2008 has been the worst year possibly.. they lost the fastest GPU title.. they lost to ATI in mid range sector with HD48XX cards.. XFX also started making radeon cards instead of their earlier exclusivity to Nvidia.. CF enabled motherboards popping all around..

I think it will take time for them to get back.. but hey they seem to be doing well in this year..

 

[LoRdKsHiTiJ]

yeah. probably. lets see.
but im doubtful anybody might abandon their nvidia configs to ati over little performance boost.

but hey, i can be wrong.

 

[comp@ddict]

The cheapest 4870X2 is $509 & the 4850X2 is for $400 & GTX280 selling for $425 on newegg.com
The card is supposed to take on GTX280 so how they could keep such big price difference?
Besides the price chart also says the same.
And if they are counting on the 1GB version, i m sure GTX280 won't let them take away the position.

HD4850x2 sells for 269% Newegg price after in-mail rebate.

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

Dude u do realize that's a 2 months old post & at that time the 4850X2 was for $400. Now eventually every price has to fall down after a time period. For instance the GTX295 will be thrown around withing next 6 months.

yeah. GTX295 is released now and is available for 500$. I think it's time for price cut on HD4870 X2.

and HD4850X2 price is now 300$. Thats 15k rupees. It's steal if you can get it from US.

HD4870x2 is retailing for $450 in some stores

Now speaking of steal,
The MSI 9600GT OC (seaweed Cooler) is selling for $99.99 which makes it INR 4829.5!!!
the XFX 9800GT is selling for $129.99 & that INR6275.5!!! And after $30 mail in rebate it will cost $99.99!!!!
And we don't even get a Palit 9600GT for 6K!
Now where can we get that price in here?

 

[comp@ddict]

^^Palit and Sparkle 9600GT sell for less than 6k now

end result is - nvidia still has the edge over ati.
with addition of physx & more games being designed to take advantage of that fact makes it even more tougher for ati to come up & retain the title of best gpu performance.

and dont forget, ati kept the title with itself for only 6 months till nvidia took it back with its gtx 285 & gtx 295 gpus.

ati has already been running on gddr5 whereas nvidia will be switching to gddr5 NOW. ati might lose the race again for quite sometime.

Count this:

ATi has it's own PHyx variant I FORGOT THE NAME NOW but ATI's Physx feature is already implemented in most games.

nVidia's GTX260 55nm with 216 shaders and 448-bit memory interface manages to JUST sOMEHOW beat an HD4870 256-bit memory, 800/5=160 shaders ina actual.

Which one's better?P Do the math!