Following the introduction of the highly acclaimed HD 4800 series, SAPPHIRE Technology, the leading manufacturer and worldwide supplier of AMD/ATI based graphics solutions is now shipping two new models of HD 4850 providing a further choice of price:performance points for the enthusiast.
The new SAPPHIRE HD 4850 1GB is a new version of the HD 4850 [...]

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If you think back to a few years ago (circa 2002 to 2003), ATI was flying high with the release of some of the best graphics cards on the market with the 9800 and 9700-series which were considered to be the crème de la crème at the time. These cards were competing against a somewhat [...]

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The first wave of Radeon 4850 boards is already on store shelves, with prices that already are below the MSRP of $199. In Europe, we have seen prices of 130 Euro – which is about $200 and quite surprising, as prices in Europe always have been higher than in the U.S. in the past.
Now we [...]

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The usual bla-bla about every new graphics accelerator released does get boring for readers and writers alike. To keep things simple, the HD4850 will pack all the features of the HD3850 and offer better number crunching. Priced to beat the NVIDIA 9800GTX in speed and value, the official threat from the Green Camp would be [...]

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Nvidia has informed their partners of a new GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card that will offer better competition against the ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be clocked at 738MHz core and 1836MHz shader compared to 675/1688MHz for the current 9800 GTX card. It will be priced at $229 while the [...]

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To say that AMD’s Radeon HD 4850 launch has been a little unusual would be something of an understatement.
Cutting a long story short, AMD’s forthcoming card managed to make its way into retail at various locations on various continents. As a direct result, AMD, to the delight of customers, decided to let things be and [...]

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Today AMD launches their new Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 Series. Both cards are built around the new RV770 graphics processor. The GPU comes with a largely increased number of shaders: 800 vs. 320 on the previous generation. Another new feature is support for GDDR5 which will be included in the Radeon HD 4870 only, [...]

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Today AMD launches their new Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 Series. Both cards are built around the new RV770 graphics processor. The GPU comes with a largely increased number of shaders: 800 vs. 320 on the previous generation. Another new feature is support for GDDR5 which will be included in the Radeon HD 4870 only, [...]

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The AMD Radeon HD 4000-series of GPUs is one of those company “secrets” that no one actually tries to hide.  AMD has gone out of their way to discuss these products without exactly disclose all the details - just this week we were at a “Cinema 2.0″ event AMD hosted that described the architecture without [...]

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