The fact is that NVIDIA these days lives on its reputation, and considering that except for GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 with their place being reserved for the top of the current offer, NVIDIA doesn't have anything new to show. Besides, trend of renaming the products becomes a bit irritating habit, cause real new product from sub-$250 class isn't introduced for a long time. The G92 chip is still promoted even though it was de facto incredible product one year ago and that is for the IT industry too long. Perhaps it wouldn't feel that long if competition isn't hyperactive, but as this became ATI's new business policy, it's quite evidently that NVIDIA isn't held in high esteem and needs to catch up. - InsideHW

ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB Graphics Edition Review

ATI at the moment, has phenomenal assortment from month to month, covering all wholes on the market, while green ones as reply give only new names for the same product over and over again. Of course, that attitude certainly cannot lead to success and appearance of sometime advantage over the Canadians has evaporated up to measure that all strings in large are now in ATI's hands. This month doesn't differ from one before, ATI introduced completely new product and NVIDIA offers new name for old graphics card, the GeForce 9800 GT version. These business decisions had for NVIDIA negative consequences.

ATI so far introduced models from the Radeon HD 4800 series more or less for any budget, but certain categories are still left uncovered and ATI tried to correct that by releasing one more model. The name of this product is Radeon HD 4830 and its job is to fit in between Radeon HD 4670 and Radeon HD 4850, which also can be concluded from its mark. The chip that was used for this model restores the LE mark in all its glory, so the chipset used is slightly crippled variant of the original RV770. This RV770 has 640 stream processors, 32 texture units and 16 raster units. So a bit less than its bigger brother the Radeon HD 4850 edition.

We must admit that specifications for this chip are, quite honestly exceptional, keeping in mind expected price range that should cover spectrum from $80 to $120. Users may think that with such low price and great GPU, ASUS made cuts on some other side too so it can keep a low manufacturing price and clearer distinction with the Radeon HD 4850 model. This is the part where we came to the memory bus which maybe should be logical choice, but ATI chose to leave a 256-bit memory bus and use GDDR3 memory set at 1800MHz with a 1.0ns time response. This will certainly make it perform quite well and keep the price right.

Last year G92 got a very good rating, but this time the Radeon HD 4830 gets our best price rating. The GeForce 9800 GT doesn't get any award this time and goes home empty handed because NVIDIA had to surprise us with something new after all this time. What is worst, the G92 was great GPU, and it looked it had great potential for further improvement and development but that didn't happen. While the RV770 being somehow crippled did make a difference and could deliver some nice performance at a great price tag.