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Visiontek 4850
Date: 2008-06-27 | Author: Gregg Gonsowski
Company: Visiontek
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INTRODUCTION
How many times do you get more than you bargained for? Sure, when you're taking a risk you can end up worse of then you started. But we're talking about the other end of the spectrum. When was the last time you went shopping for something only to realize it was on sale or it was a two-for-one day? It's times like these that you really feel like you got your money's worth. In the world of computing these feelings occur even less often. Not because of lack of deals or overpriced equipment but rather the pace of innovation. What is a good deal today will be next to nothing in a few months making the decision of when to buy a daunting one.
Today Bjorn3D is looking at a video card that gives you more than you bargained for at a price that is amazing for the level of performance. The newly released Visiontek HD4850. Performance of the big boys for the price of the little guys.
SPECIFICATIONS
To help highlight some of the physical changes that took place with this new card we compiled this short list of specs.
| ATI 4850 GPU | |||
| ATi 4870 | ATi 4850 | ATi 3870 | |
| Fabrication Process | 55nm | 55nm | 55nm |
| Transistor Count | 965m | 965m | 965m |
| Core Clock Rate | 750 MHz | 625 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Streaming Processors | 800 | 800 | 320 |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 | GDDR3/GDDR4 |
| Memory Clock | 1,800 MHz (3,600 MHz) |
1000 MHz (2,000 MHz) |
1125 MHz (2,250 MHz) |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 115.0 GB/s | 64.0 GB/s | 72.0 GB/s |
| Memory Size | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Texture Filtering Units | 40 | 40 | 16 |
| Texture Filtering Rate | 25.0 GigaTexels/sec | 25.0 GigaTexels/sec | 12.4 GigaTexels/sec |
| RAMDACs | 400 MHz | 400 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Bus Type | PCI-E 2.0 | PCI-E 2.0 | PCI-E 2.0 |
| Power Connectors | 2 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin |
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