ATI Radeon HD 4850 Preview: AMD Delivers Performance for the Masses
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on June 19, 2008 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Crysis
For Crysis, we used the Crysis Benchmark Tool available from Crymod. Rather than testing our own recorded demo, this time we went with the built-in GPU benchmark that does a flyby of the island level. Our test was run with all the settings except for shader quality on high. Shader quality was set to very high.
With less than 5% difference between the 9800 GTX and the 4850, the new card from AMD certainly holds its own. it still isn't really playable at 1080p or higher resolutions, and even 1680x1050 is a tall order, but the 9800 GTX is in the same boat. Playing at 1280x1024 or lower or dropping down the quality settings is recommended until you start to spend much more money.
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sapiens74 - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - link
A couple of these sure beats the $650 Nvidia solutionElFenix - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
already there on the eggFITCamaro - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
For $170-175 after rebate no less. I just got a pair of 8800GTS 512s for $170 each. I kinda wish I'd waited now because while the performance is about the same, I wouldn't have had to buy a new motherboard since my P5WDH Deluxe could run Crossfire.BPB - Friday, June 20, 2008 - link
$149.99 at BestBuy. Just got 2! They are on the shelves and already marked on sale. VisionTek cards are 25% off this week, so the VisionTek 4850 is $149.99.