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
Call of Duty 4
For Call of Duty 4, we max out all the settings we are able. Our benchmark is the cutscene directly before the first mission: flying over the sea in a hellicopter on a rainy night. We used FRAPS to record the data for this test.
While NVIDIA has been the reigning Call of Duty champion for quite some time, the 4850 really changes things up. The gap between the 9800 GTX and the 4850 gets smaller as resolution increases, but even at 2560x1600 the previously more expensive 9800 GTX loses out.
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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.