AMD Radeon HD 4800 Review Roundup

AMD Radeon HD 4800 Series is here, meet the candidates:

 AMD Radeon HD 4870
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  AMD Radeon HD 4850
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Reviews:

1. Anandtech
2. Techreport
3. Hexus
4. Hardware France (French)
5. Extremetech
6. Hardware Canucks
7. HotHardware
8. Rage3D
9. Computerbase (German)
10. Arstechnica
11. Expreview
12. Hardocp
13. TweakTown
14. Bjorn3D
15. PCPerspective
16. LegitReviews
17. FiringSquad
18. Neoseeker
19. XbitLabs
20. TechPowerUp
21. TechSpot
22. Overclockersclub
23. TBreak
24. Tom'sHardware
25. BootDaily

Some excerpts taken from the conclusion part of the above reviews:

Firingsquad

"The Radeon HD 4850 completely shatters what you expect out of a $200 graphics card" 

"ATI’s Radeon HD 4870 often comes close to, or eclipses the GeForce GTX 260 in performance (in BioShock the 4870 was actually faster than GTX 280) for $100 less!"

 Anandtech

"The fact of the matter is that by NVIDIA's standards, the 4870 should be priced at $400 and the 4850 should be around $250. You can either look at it as AMD giving you a bargain or NVIDIA charging too much"

  XbitLabs

"Besides serious gaming potential, simple design and low price, ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics accelerators boast a number of unique qualities that are absent by their main competitor. Namely, they support VC-1 decoding, advanced BD profiles and have a fully-functional audio core capable of outputting multi-channel HD sound."

 Neoseeker

"The VisionTek Radeon HD 4850 is lean, slick, and a stick of dynamite in a knife fight when up against the competition. Delivering a product to the market for $199 that packs this much punch is almost shockingly refreshing."

 BootDaily

"There is no other card for under $200 which we can recommend more highly than the Radeon HD 4850 as it offers up unparalleled performance in single-card use for its price and comes awfully close to besting the performance of NVIDIA’s “mighty” GeForce 280GTX in CrossFire mode."

"A pair of the 4850’s provides an insane amount of GPU power which offers up a far more compelling performance-per-watt value than anything NVIDIA can currently muster."

Overclocker's Club

"I had expected to see some great numbers from the new card, however what I saw was way beyond what I expected."

TechSpot

"Overall the Radeon HD 4850 has proven to be a real winner, and possibly one the best $200 graphics cards we have ever reviewed."

TechPowerUp

"Overall I think the Radeon HD 4850 is the best card on the market right now if you are on a limited budget, yet want to be able to play all the latest and greatest titles out there."

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