Asus HD4850 512mb PCI-E Graphics Card EAH4850
Crysis & F.E.A.R.
Published: 30th June 2008 | Source: Asus | Price: £120 |
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
With less than 2FPS between the HD4850 and 9800GTX at 1900x1200 and almost exact results at 1280x1024, the two cards are left to fight it out once again on price. This is also true for the previous generation 3850x2 and 3870x2 cards, which, while able to compete with the 4850 and 9800GTX on the FPS front, get left behind when it comes to value.
F.E.A.R. is a game based on the Lithtech Jupiter EX engine. It has volumetric lighting, soft shadows, parallax mapping and particle effects. All results were recorded using F.R.A.P.S, with a total of 5 identical runs through the same area of the game. The highest and lowest results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
While most of the previous benchmarks have been quite a mixed bag of results, the HD4850 shows a clear advantage over the 9800GTX at both 1280x1024 and 1900x1200 resolutions. This works greatly in favour of the HD4850 when it comes to the CPF scale, with the card costing less than £1.00 per frame at lower resolutions.
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Been spying on this review for a while 
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So its not the most powerful card in the world. But it can be had for £120. VFM wise i can't see anything better atm. Rather tempting to pick up 2.
.So its not the most powerful card in the world. But it can be had for £120. VFM wise i can't see anything better atm. Rather tempting to pick up 2.
Looks like a great card, wonder if i can Crossfire them on my commando.
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Originally Posted by name='nunzio'
Looks like a great card, wonder if i can Crossfire them on my commando.
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Aye, just worried about the fact they might need PCI-e v.2
Nice review m8. Looks like ATI are slowly clawing back some performance.
very nice looking cards 
XFX should come across to the Red camp
i think XFX and ATi would make some damn fine cards together..
but yea, nice
good review
XFX should come across to the Red camp
i think XFX and ATi would make some damn fine cards together..
but yea, nice
good review
lol yeah XFX ATi cards would be the best.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT....its about time ATI stopped cowering behind the bikesheds...it bodes well for the 4870 and x2 derivitives.....
Great review as ever Jim, the cost per frame is simply staggering on this card, much lower than nvidia 
Awesome review and card really. ATi bringin back VFM, nuff said really
It is really tempting to get one of these, and then get another for crossfire at a later date.
Great reviews as always!
Great reviews as always!
Not to bad a card really, performance is goodish... but price, WOAH!
For £120 that is a smoking card!
I think I might have to buy a 4870x2 when they come out, ati seems to have won this round
I think I might have to buy a 4870x2 when they come out, ati seems to have won this round
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
For £120 that is a smoking card!
I think I might have to buy a 4870x2 when they come out, ati seems to have won this round |
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
For £120 that is a smoking card!
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Originally Posted by name='nunzio'
Looks like a great card, wonder if i can Crossfire them on my commando.
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
8x 8x config might not work too bad with these cards actually. Especially at the price. Doesn't matter too much if you loose a few fps thru PCI-E bottlenecks
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The HD 4850 is by far the best card VFM wise recently. I think it'll be even more of a hit than the 8800gt. Unless nVidia drastically reduce the price of there 9800gtx to the same or lower price level.
The Hd 4850 appears to beat the 9800gtx and the 8800gtx in most games. I was thinking of upgrading my 8800gts 640mb to a 8800gtx, but I'm glad I didn't as this card is cheaper and performs better.
I showed the card to my bro, and with a little persuasion I made him buy it. He'll be happy with it hope fully, upgrading from a x1950pro lol.
Also he got the HD 4850 for about £115 delivered from pixmania.com, hasn't arrived yet though.
Great review Jim, as always. 
The price/performance ration is clearly top with the 4850, but I’m looking more in the direction of the 4870 for my self.
It would be nice to see, how a 4870 performs against the gtx260 in a battle review
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And now that there will also be a black edition 4870 that can go over 1Ghz with its cpu, nvidia will have a hard time.
Better cards from ati, lower price for us, at least I hope nvidia will lower their prices.
The price/performance ration is clearly top with the 4850, but I’m looking more in the direction of the 4870 for my self.
It would be nice to see, how a 4870 performs against the gtx260 in a battle review
. And now that there will also be a black edition 4870 that can go over 1Ghz with its cpu, nvidia will have a hard time.
Better cards from ati, lower price for us, at least I hope nvidia will lower their prices.
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Originally Posted by name='cl0ck_ed'
I think the commando is actually 16x/4x. The 4x bus of the second slot is too crippling to performance. I was looking at two of these cards for crossfire on the same board and after researching crossfire on the p965 chipset there is little point. Best to sell the commando and buy a x38 or x48 mobo.
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Originally Posted by name='cl0ck_ed'
The HD 4850 is by far the best card VFM wise recently. I think it'll be even more of a hit than the 8800gt. Unless nVidia drastically reduce the price of there 9800gtx to the same or lower price level. The Hd 4850 appears to beat the 9800gtx and the 8800gtx in most games. I was thinking of upgrading my 8800gts 640mb to a 8800gtx, but I'm glad I didn't as this card is cheaper and performs better. I showed the card to my bro, and with a little persuasion I made him buy it. He'll be happy with it hope fully, upgrading from a x1950pro lol. Also he got the HD 4850 for about £115 delivered from pixmania.com, hasn't arrived yet though. |
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For most P965 boards that would be true, but the Command actually has a "Crosslinx" chip that splits the bandwidth of the first PCI-E slot into 8x/8x when running cards in Crossfire.
Bloody hell thats a good price |
For the cheap price, sign up to Quidco, and you get 5% off at pixmania, you can also get money off at Misco and Novatech.
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Are you sure? Can’t find that anywhere. On the asus site it says 16x/4x. Sure your not thinking of the Blitz.
For the cheap price, sign up to Quidco, and you get 5% off at pixmania, you can also get money off at Misco and Novatech. |
Blitz has the Crosslinx, Commando is x16 and x4
looks very nice. how does it compare to the 8800 gts in practice? It seems to have much better stats.
I have a question about it.... I'm interested in putting this in a lower end pc, to keep me going until Xmas for a new pc build.
The specs are roughly:
Antec p150 case w/ neo430w psu
2gig DDR Ram
bunch of hdds
MSI 7800gtx (256meg)
Amd 3800x2 cpu (oced from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz)
With the bottleneck of both the ram and the cpu, will I still get a reasonable boost in games, with their fps?
It's cheap enough to buy if I get more than a say, 30fps jump.
The specs are roughly:
Antec p150 case w/ neo430w psu
2gig DDR Ram
bunch of hdds
MSI 7800gtx (256meg)
Amd 3800x2 cpu (oced from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz)
With the bottleneck of both the ram and the cpu, will I still get a reasonable boost in games, with their fps?
It's cheap enough to buy if I get more than a say, 30fps jump.
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Asus HD4850 512mb review
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