I think this conclusion says it all on the 4850.
You know what the scary part is? You haven't even seen ATI's R700 yet - they are holding it back. NVidia is in for some bad times. The 4850's price tag should show them that the R700 is going to slaughter them!
-S
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We can’t help but be impressed by the Radeon HD 4850. Priced at $199, the Radeon HD 4850 completely shatters what you expect out of a $200 graphics card: just a few months ago a card with this kind of performance would have set you back at least $400. At its worst, it performs on par or slightly slower than NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GTX. The GeForce 9800 GTX ran up to 13% faster than Radeon 4850 in Lost Planet, although by 2560x1600 the 4850 had surpassed the 9800 GTX+ in performance. The Radeon 4850 also traded blows with the 9800 GTX in our testing with Company of Heroes DX10, with both cards posting wins at different resolutions. At its best though, there are games like BioShock where the Radeon HD 4850 outperformed NVIDIA’s $400 GeForce GTX 260!
The Radeon 4850 also outgunned the 9800 GTX+ in our Crysis tests with AA, and the 4850 also outperformed the GeForce 9800 GTX in the majority of our DX9 tests.
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