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Title: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Dwg115 on June 25, 2008, 08:22:18 PM: Priced at $299 the Radeon HD 4870 is clocked 20% higher and has 81% more memory bandwidth than the Radeon HD 4850. The GPU clock speed improvement is simply due to better cooling as the 4870 ships with a two-slot cooler. The memory bandwidth improvement is due to the Radeon HD 4870 using GDDR5 memory instead of GDDR3 used on the 4850 (and GDDR4 for 3870); the result is a data rate equal to 4x the memory clock speed or 3.6Gbps. The Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 both use a 256-bit memory bus like the 3870 before it (as well as NVIDIA's competing GeForce 9800 GTX), but total memory bandwidth on the 4870 ends up being 115.2GB/s thanks to the use of GDDR5. Note that this is more memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 260 which has a much wider 448-bit memory bus, but uses GDDR3 devices.

read all the benchies here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341

Source: www.anandtech.com
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Dwg115 on June 25, 2008, 08:24:58 PM: I love my Nvidia cards but this type of price/performance is kickarse!!!! the only thing nvidia really has at this point IMO is Physx and the gtx 280's performance in crysis. other then that get 2 4870's in CF and crush everything out there fo cheaper then 1 gtx 280.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on June 25, 2008, 09:27:59 PM: I am wanting to build myself a spider system. I was just waiting for ATI to release something great, and at a affordable price. Any word on a dual gpu 4 series card? I am sure that it is in the works.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: _Cloud on June 25, 2008, 10:35:43 PM: Think I'm going to go with the 4850's better price and just as good performance

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_4850_4870_performance/
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: The Nstuff on June 26, 2008, 05:28:24 PM: these 48xx series are incredible. My 8800gtx still plays everything out there i can possibly throw at it. These new cards are faster and 1/4 of the cost of when the 8800gtx was new. Simple amazing. Cypher and I are actually half considering getting one of the ATi cards simply for the monthly driver releases. We're just fed up with nvidia's horrible driver treatment.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Dwg115 on June 27, 2008, 08:12:44 AM: yea with prices this low it's almost too much to refuse. Im thinking of grabbing one just to play with and if i don't like it i might sell it.. Im sure I'll like it though.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: The Shoctor on June 27, 2008, 11:14:21 AM: I am afraid to switch again...
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Agent4054 on June 27, 2008, 11:15:28 AM: Hehehe
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: BurntIce on June 28, 2008, 11:27:10 PM: If you didnt hear, and I don't have the link handy, but I think some guy in Israel (possibly) managed to hack the new ATI chips to run PhysX. Didn't get all the details, maybe look it up later...
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: The Nstuff on June 29, 2008, 12:36:50 PM: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/27/1821252
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: decepticon on June 29, 2008, 06:07:16 PM: Here's another article from Tomshardware.com:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-physx-ati,5764.html
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Rinso on July 01, 2008, 10:13:36 PM: Man this is tempting, but I think I should probably buy a new CPU before I upgrade my graphics card.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: _Cloud on July 04, 2008, 06:44:39 PM: Got my 2 Sapphire HD4850's running in crossfire, and I love it! Great Price.
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: Dwg115 on July 04, 2008, 07:22:41 PM: Quote from: xCLouDx on July 04, 2008, 06:44:39 PM
Got my 2 Sapphire HD4850's running in crossfire, and I love it! Great Price.

you should post some of your benchmarks!!!
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: The Nstuff on July 06, 2008, 04:53:57 PM: "you should post some of your benchmarks!!!"

I agree, especially since I just bought an asus 4850 from newegg for $145 (after rebate).
Title: Re: AMD/ATI: Back in the game
Post by: _Cloud on July 13, 2008, 09:24:48 PM: Quote from: nstuff on July 06, 2008, 04:53:57 PM
"you should post some of your benchmarks!!!"

I agree, especially since I just bought an asus 4850 from newegg for $145 (after rebate).

I will, im just waiting for the official 8.7 to be released, so there is proper support. None of this hotfix, and beta crap.