I bought this product at launch and it is the most stable and reliable graphics card i have ever purchased. It has a stupid ammount of graphical power for the price.
It runs all the latest games at ease, all at the highest graphic settings and with the 8xAA turned on to give everything on ... Read review
The Sapphire HD 4850 is designed by Sapphire for the user whodemands more memory for ... more
specific applications like rendering. Itoffers similar overall performance to the standard model withclock speeds of 625MHz (core) and 993MHz (memory).
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 weeks...
The Sapphire HD 4850 is designed by Sapphire for the user whodemands more memory for ... more
specific applications like rendering. Itoffers similar overall performance to the standard model withclock speeds of 625MHz (core) and 993MHz (memory).
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 weeks...
Designed by SAPPHIRE, the HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a ... more
single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB
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Designed by SAPPHIRE, the HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a ... more
single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB
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Designed by SAPPHIRE, the HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a ... more
single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB of GDDR3 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory. Four Dual Link DVI outputs are provided as well as TV-Out. This provides a choice of Multi-monitor operation or CrossFire mode in which 3D applications such as games use both on-board GPUs together to del...
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Designed by SAPPHIRE, the HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a ... more
single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB of GDDR3 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory. Four Dual Link DVI outputs are provided as well as TV-Out. This provides a choice of Multi-monitor operation orCrossFire mode in which 3D applications such as games use both on-board GPUs together to del...
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Advantages: Cheap for amazing power, Amazingly Stable, Crossfire Compatable Disadvantages: Bulky, Gets really hot. Nothing else, its perfect except for them 2 things.
I bought this product at launch and it is the most stable and reliable graphics card i have ever purchased. It has a stupid ammount of graphical power for the price. It runs all the latest games at ease, all at the highest graphic settings and with the 8xAA turned on to give everything on screen super smooth edges.
From my personal experience i know that this product when on Crysis runs at 25 fps Which is great for a graphics ... ...over 100fps, no lag at all for graphics. Even games currently out for the xbox and ps3, it can run graphics slightly better than they can process...
But to make it even better the crossfire setup that comes with this series of Ati cards will let you stick another card next to it to double the performance and graphical quality.
With a crossfire setup on a 4850 you can run every game currently out smoothly, and maybe ... more
I bought this product at launch and it is the most stable and reliable graphics card i have ever purchased. It has a stupid ammount of graphical power for the price. It runs all the latest games at ease, all at the highest graphic settings and with the 8xAA turned on to give everything on screen super smooth edges.
From my personal experience i know that this product when on Crysis runs at 25 fps Which is great for a graphics card at this price. It runs fallout 3 at over 100fps, no lag at all for graphics. Even games currently out for the xbox and ps3, it can run graphics slightly better than they can process...
But to make it even better the crossfire setup that comes with this series of Ati cards will let you stick another card next to it to double the performance and graphical quality.
With a crossfire setup on a 4850 you can run every game currently out smoothly, and maybe even run all the games coming out at the start of next year. The best bit about a crossfire setup is that it is cheeper than buying one top of the range card. 2 of these can benchmark the same as a £300 nvidia card, when 2 of these would cost you around £160.
The installation is easy to do too, it just slides in the appropriate slot, connect it to the power supply via the supplied cable and it installs itself when your computer next turns on.
The only problem i have found is it gets fairly hot, nothing it cant handle but at max load it does get to around 80 degrees, on a good point though it can run at 80 degrees and still run as stable and smooth as ever. It is also fairly bulky so you have to make sure you have a large tower and not a mini tower.
The fan on it is also next to silent so it doesnt disturb your gaming.
This also works perfectly on Windows Vista and Windows 7, everything runs smoothly, full appearence settings never ran better.
This is the perfect product for a average gamer or just a general Pc user.
Advantages: Solid performance for price, great display driver utility, multi-gpu capable, HD looks amazing Disadvantages: Sometimes, display driver shows that core temp gets high, but hey I am constantly pushing the card
For as long as I can remember I have been an NVIDIA/GEFORCE customer. Many years ago I did try an ATI card but I was very disappointed with its performance, and that was when I decided to shut the door on ATI graphics. Since then, I had upgraded my graphics card to a Geforce 6800, 7800, 8600, and most recently the 8800 GT. Being an avid gaming enthusiast, I was very pleased with the 8800 GT and it was only by sheer bad luck (looking back it was a ... ...ATI HD 4850. One stormy night I had a terrible power surge, and found my computer dead, with a fried psu, mobo, cpu, and graphics card. So I had to rebuild my computer, and started shopping around for a new card. Being a prudent and careful shopper, I did some research on new cards and found some benchmark tests that compared the latest Nvidia cards to the ATI cards. I found that on many tests, the HD 4850 held its own against the top Nvidia cards, ...
knahmshayin 23.04.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4850
Advantages: high performance Disadvantages: dual slot solution
I wear sapphire Radeon HD 4850 does not have symptoms that are less satisfying just need a place more than one slot for the installation for the conditioner for graphics processors is greater than the factory recommendation. Viewed in terms of performance sapphire radeon HD 4850 does not disappoint because it has a high-end GPU AMD RV770 which has the stream processors to reach 800 units so that when used on large or resolution 1280 x 1024 pixels ...
AleviA26 16.03.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Sapphire RADEON HD 4850
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Sapphire Technology is one of the prominent hardware manufacturing companies based in Hong-Kong. It is widely famous for producing Graphics Cards for personal computers and work stations. Sapphire?s products are equipped with ATI GPU, and they are the prime supplier for ATI-based video cards worldwide. Sapphire technology has been extensively praised for their excellent quality and powerful hardwires. They have their ISO9001 certified manufacturing plants in China.
Sapphire technology is the first company to launch the graphics card with HDMI connectivity. They have released the SapphireRadeonHD4850 X2 November, 2008. Its successor of the HD4850 designed by them, having two dual GPU works concurrently for maximum output performance.
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Processor / memory
Graphics Processor / Vendor
ATI Radeon HD 4850
Clock Speed
625 MHz, 675 MHz
RAMDAC Clock Speed
400 MHz
Video Memory Installed
512 MB
Technology
GDDR3 SDRAM 256-bit
Memory Clock Speed
993 MHz, 1.1 GHz
Features
Dual Slot Fan Cooler, Avivo HD Technology, ATI CrossFireX Technology, ATI PowerPlay technology, Avivo HD Technology, ATI CrossFireX Technology, ATI PowerPlay technology, Dual Slot Fan Cooler, Avivo HD Technology, ATI CrossFireX Technology
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support Details
Limited warranty - 2 years
Service & Support
2 years warranty
Manufacturer's product description
The new version of the HD 4850 has been production engineered by SAPPHIRE to deliver some benefits to the end user. It has 512MB of DDR3 memory and offers the same performance as the original model based on the reference design, with clock speeds of 625MHz (core) and 993MHz (memory). The fine-tuned PCB layout and optimized cooler design makes for more efficient and quieter operation.
