For those who missed it, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is essentially two Radeon HD 4870's operating in CrossFire mode, albeit on a single card. And as if the original wasn't already huge enough, Palit has super sized their Radeon HD 4870 X2. What they call the Revolution 700 Deluxe takes up a grand total of three slots. With the super sizing, one might assume that their Revolution 700 Deluxe is heavily overclocked out of the box by the factory. That is not the case with the Revolution 700 Deluxe. Strangely enough, Palit has chosen not to overclock the core even the slightest. Even the ASUS video card fitted with a stock cooler is overclocked, and as such looking faster towards gaming performance. - VR-Zone
Despite NVIDIA's efforts, ATI graphics chips continue to set the bar for today's top performing add-in board solutions and there have been efforts by certain add-in board companies to further the technology a bit to suit their own demographic. One of the leading companies setting this trend comes to us with a name that's been around a long time, namely Diamond. The Radeon HD 4870 card has been available since July and continues to be favored by gamers who want a great performing graphics card for today's top-end games. Diamond has ramped it up a bit by slapping on an additional 512MB for a total of 1GB and while we are the first to admit that there's not going to be a big performance delta. - Boot Daily
NVIDIA is set to trickle out the latest batch of 55nm parts. There are already some pictures and tidbits about the latest 55nm GT200 going around, and some GX2 info floating around as well. It looks like the on-off again, with the dual GT200 being on again and it is going to be called the GeForce GTX 295. Yay, the 55nm parts, internally code named GT206 are finally trickling out like we said they would, with no speed increases and no power gains, which is surely a pitty with such a shrink. What should have been a simple optical shrink is turning into a totally botched job, with the real 55nm parts unlikely to come out until late January at the earliest following yet another spin. - The Inquirer
With the winter holiday season approaching people are looking for new products to put under the Christmas tree. With the economic recession in full force a new video card which costs less than $200 might be more feasible this year. We have tested a GeForce 9800 GTX in the past from Gainward, and the revised GTX+ increases the shader and GPU clocks to give the card a fighting chance below the $200 price point. This is certainly a good step, to battle the recent great products from ATI which do well in this segment. In time for holiday shopping spree Sparkle launches a custom GeForce 9800 GTX+ which features onboard HDMI and a silent cooling. Can it run the latest games fluently? - Madshrimps
The Radeon HD 4800 series has been extremely popular for AMD over the past few months and as the time passes we've seen many companies make changes to the design to help them continue standing out. The latest company to attack a Radeon HD 4800 series card is Palit and the particular model is the top dog from the ATI range, the Radeon HD 4870 X2. So, what has Palit done to the card to make it stand out from the rest? Let's jump forward to see what Palit has done with the package before we have a closer look at the card itself. From there we will strap the card into our brand spanking new X58 based rig to see exactly what it's capable of. We're expecting big numbers from this beast. - TweakTown
As announced, NVIDIA presented their new GeForce GTX 260 with larger amount of stream processors. This is consequence of the facts that the regular GeForce GTX 260 didn't have expected performances levels and that price was too high compared to similar products on the market. Simply put the GeForce GTX 260 was very fast but since the Radeon HD 4870 had better performance to price ratio NVIDIA had to do something and as result we have now the GeForce GTX 260+ version. The difference between the two are the 24 shaders that have been added. This time we got the GeForce GTX 260+ graphics version signed by XFX that belong to the Black edition series, tuned for the hardcore gamer. - InsideHW
We have learned that the dual GT200 card, something that should finally help NVIDIA to dethrone the Radeon HD 4870 X2, is going to sample by the middle of this month, while it will be available in January. We are not aware of the real performance numbers but we have learned that it should end up faster than the Radeon HD 4870 X2. This is the whole point of this card, to win the performance crown back. The card is based on 55nm GT200 chips and despite the fact that it might be the bulkiest card and most power hungry card ever made, it also has a chance to be the fastest thing ever made in very late 2008. But will only be really available early 2009, or a bit later to the big public we mean. - FudZilla
With the release of the newest Batman movie, there has been a lot of talk about the Dark Knight lately, so much so that ASUS decided to name a custom card using the same name. This card has four heatpipes. Heatpipes have been proven on many occasions to help the flow of heat immensely. Rarely do you ever see heatpipes used on any video card, even special edition cards. Heatpipes are usually reserved for the best after market GPU coolers. It should be interesting to see how these heatpipes affect overclocking. What would the Dark Knight name be without a cool design to go with it? That is why ASUS has painted the GPU cooler a cool black silverish color along with a blue stylish PCB. - Bjorn3D
Back in August, ATI released the Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. The original reference version, built by a contractor for ATI, and sold to the various ATI partners. Though a quite wicked graphics card, did have some opportunities for improvement, mainly in the cooling system. The two massive copper heatsinks just weren't getting enough airflow from the single fan, making the card's temps little on the scary side, with up to 90°C load temps. Our friends at Palit, who usually aren't happy with the reference design of video cards anyway, have come up with a new version of the Radeon HD 4870 X2, with two fans blowing on a pair of heatpipe coolers to cool off those cookin' GPU's. - ThinkComputers
With the great economic hardships that we are in more and more people are being cost conscious when they make a purchase wether it be gas for the car or computer hardware. We want the best we can get for the money we spend. ATI has realized this issue and also realize that people want to get that upgrade to bring their computers faster and up to date so they have released the Radeon HD 4830 series card. The Radeon HD 4830 series cards bring a good performer for not a lot of money to the video card table. PowerColor has released their Radeon HD 4830 targeted at mainstream PC users looking for a bit of a graphics boost, as such brings a new product for the holiday season. - Overclockers Club
After taking a look at our last Sapphire video card and being totally impressed, we were more than willing to take a look at their latest offering in the Radeon HD 4800 series family. Now the Radeon HD 4830 is basically a cut down version of Sapphire's Radeon HD 4850, and by doing so Sapphire is able to offer it at a much lower price point while still able to offer pretty close to the same overall performance, or so that's what Sapphire is saying anyways. We will find out just how well the card does soon enough. So, enough of the formalities. Let's get on to looking at this graphics card and see just how well it will stand up to the NVIDIA competition, especially the newer GeForce 9800 GT series. - Bjorn3D
We came home today to find a nice Fed-Ex box sitting by our chair. We opened it up to find Sapphire's latest addition to the graphics rendering world, with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. Their Radeon HD 4830, which fills the gap between the Radeon HD 4670 and the Radeon HD 4850, is the entry level Radeon HD 4800 series graphics card and is aimed towards the budget gaming market. This should really give ATI and extra boost in sales especially with the holiday season nearby and swing in some extra money. We will be taking a closer look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 and see how it does in hours of gaming combat. Can it run with the big dogs? Or does it need to stay on the porch? - Modders-Inc
The recent flurry of launches of video cards has really redefined what the industry is like on the market especially with the holiday season just starting. ATI and NVIDIA have completed their holiday lineups of video cards with numerous cards available across the myriad price spectrum. The high-end of the graphics card market is dominated by the GeForce GTX 280 and ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards at over $400, but what about the mid-range? NVIDIA's answer to the mid-range of the video card spectrum surfaced in the form of the GeForce 9800 GT and GTX products. And the GeForce 9800 GT is basically a rebranded GeForce 8800 GT, but with the extra HybridPower tehnology. - Motherboards
We have looked at quite a few Radeon HD 4850's ever since the card launched earlier this summer and many of them have had very good custom cooling solutions. None however, have been passively cooled until today, as we've got Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4850 1GB, complete with its Multi-Core passive cooling solution. What's more we haven't looked at how the Radeon HD 4850 reacts to more memory because it just hasn't been an official AMD product and partners haven't really pushed it until now. Maybe there was a reason for that, because it was as if AMD delayed the launch of the Radeon HD 4870 1GB until there were enough titles released that benefitted from the additional memory. - Bit-Tech
After their rather disappointing Radeon HD 3800 series, ATI took the world by surprise with the Radeon HD 4800 generation of graphics boards. Since their launch back in June, ATI has reclaimed its presence in the market and has been steadily eating away at NVIDIA's marketshare. We have had the opportunity to check out several cards from the Radeon HD 4800 series lineup and today we look at one of the newest additions to the family, the Radeon HD 4830. This particular model, the Extreme AH4830, comes to us from ASUS and sports a custom cooler and factory overclocked memory. We'll put it through its paces and find out how it compares to its two closest siblings. - Benchmark Reviews
When buying a graphics card everyone wants the fastest product they can get for their money and those that are successful get acclaim across the globe which inevitability leads to more sales. Throughout product lines the same can be said and even in low-end parts the model which is known to overclock best regularly sells more than the competition. In the Radeon HD 4870 family there have been numerous overclocked models released in the last few months but few go to the extreme level shown by today's product, the PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 liquid cooling solution. This is actually the first water cooled version that we see to hit the market shortly and tuning the game experience up a notch. - DriverHeaven
NVIDIA is planning to have its 55nm GT200 cards in retail and/or etail by early December. The company has started shipping these chips a few weeks ago and evaluation boards have been manufactured a few weeks ago too. Now the wait is purely logistic as it takes a long time to get the cards from Taiwan and China back to the western world. We learned that new cards should overclock better, but the first wave will be clocked at the same speeds as the GeForce GTX 260, with 216 shaders and we suspect that the GeForce GTX 280 cards will also get a new 55nm chip. The new chip should have drastically lower power consumption, should overclock higher and luckily we won't have to wait much more. - FudZilla
While ATI and NVIDIA keep trading punches in the never ending battle for the high-end throne, we chose to take a look at the more sensible side of things and test another mainstream card. We are as looking as some kind of special version of the Radeon HD 4850 with a custom cooling and improved settings to get to a higher level of gaming experience and as such greater performance. The Radeon HD 4850 is currently the best mid-range card that money can buy, and Club3D's overclocked version can be found for as low as $189, while the lowest priced reference Radeon HD 4850 card can be found for just under $164, so let's see if it's worth the additional $25 or so, for what you get as extra? - FudZilla
ATI continuously presents new models of graphics cards, using new GPU to the maximum and filling gaps in their product lineup. ATI solves every problem with simple solution that can be summarized something like this, what is better than a Radeon HD 4850? Two Radeon HD 4850's of course. The result is logical and now after the Radeon HD 4870 X2 we got in our lab the new Radeon HD 4850 X2 that should position itself in between the Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 edition. The graphics card that we got is signed by Sapphire. And as such currently Sapphire is the only manufacturer that has released a Radeon HD 4850 X2 graphics card and stands alone on the market. - InsideHW
Agreed, 2008 has been a fantastic year for AMD. We have seen them release a portfolio of great cards with extremely competitive pricing to challenge NVIDIA. The Radeon HD 4850 has been one of their most successful cards, with its combined price to performance ratio capturing the hearts of many consumers. One of the most documented issues with these cards however are the running temperatures, especially when overclocked. These cores can get hot with the reference heatsink which can raise temperatures inside a chassis. Fortunately, for those who do not wish to void their warranty by replacing the heatsink, AMD's partners have been busy producing cards with custom cooling. - DriverHeaven
Regardless of profession, everyone likes kicking back and playing a game for a while. And in order to enjoy graphics and today's stunning effects, you will need an adequate board capable of handling the massive data processing burden. If you encounter stuttering, it usually means that your card can't take handle the task. Well in that case, you should lower the resolution or detail settings, but not before you try one often overlooked thing and that is installing new drivers. The more advanced users might think it's funny that we'd even discuss this issue, but many users never update their drivers after installing the card for the first time. However, the better the drivers, the better you'll utilize the hardware. - FudZilla
Well every now and then a manufacturer tries to do something odd, you know something different with a product. That is much respected, as we like diversity, products that bring in some x-factor or just something that's fresh and new. Now, sometimes that works out really well, and sometimes it just doesn't. Even after spending two test days with the product we are looking at today. We still haven't made up our mind with what the conclusion for this product is going to be like. Meet Palit's Revolution 700 Deluxe. It's a Radeon HD 4870 X2 with 2GB memory based graphics bard that comes with custom cooling, slightly higher memory clocks and some serious connectivity to get you going for more. - Guru3D
We first took a look at the PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 video card back in July, shortly after the official release of AMD's much anticipated Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 series GPU's. We concluded that, on balance and at that time, it was a better choice than its NVIDIA rivals and we gave it our gaming award. Moving on we see that several brands has released some special version that come with custom cooling and clock speeds. Of course having their own particular design to improve performance and gaming experience. With a price premium of circa $30 above the cost of a reference clocked Radeon HD 4850, does the PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 PCS+ deliver enough to warrant its increased price? - Hexus
Since the release of the Radeon HD 4800 series of graphics cards based on ATI's Radeon processor, competition between the GPU developers has become tougher in every market sector. It would be even more correct to say that NVIDIA, after having ruled unchallenged in nearly every price category for a while, has now got problems fighting for customers. What will have greater effect on graphics cards' performance, twice the amount of video memory or a more powerful GPU? Find out from our new article featuring the Palit Radeon HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual edition and the Leadtek WinFast GeForce GTX 260+ Extreme, where both cards have been improved over the previous versions released initially. - X-Bit Labs
One of the greatest things about the fabrication processes is that they can be shrunk. Assuming that your architecture is forward thinking enough, and it navigates issues with power plane mapping and transistor leakage and all that, you can take your design, make it smaller, run it faster and use less power. ATI has reaped great successes going from 65nm to 55nm, and NVIDIA is going the same way with their G92 parts. This process will take their GeForce 8800 GT, an excellent performer at the time of its release, rename it GeForce 9800 GT and reap away. We mean, that would be the way to do it if you wanted to make any sense whatsoever. Because this is a regular old 65nm part. - TechLounge
If there's one thing that's more true today than ever, it's that you can get some incredible gaming performance for not too much money. Taking a look at a GPU like a GeForce 9600 GT can prove that. At about $80, it's affordable for almost anyone, yet can handle some games with modest settings just fine at super high resolutions. There's definite value in GPU's today, and it's great to see. The next step-up from the previously mentioned card is of course the GeForce 9800 GT, which features a slower core and shader frequencies, but almost doubles the number of cores, effectively giving us a card that's close to being equivalent to the original GeForce 9800 GTX, save for higher frequencies. - Techgage
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