Expert Reviews

  • …-overclocked editions should also be appearing in the near future. When it came to our gaming benchmarks the HD 4670 performed solidly for a graphics card in this price range, with results that compared…
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  • …the performance of a Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire configuration in 17 tests (15 games and two synthetic benchmarks). We’ll build our CrossFire config out of two Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 cards that will be…
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  • …is significant we wouldn’t exactly class it as phenomenal. (Further down the page we’ll compare its benchmark results to a standard HD 4870 card, to give an indication of the real-world performance gains.) We…
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  • …their own high-performance Toxic Edition of the popular Radeon HD 4870 video card. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 100243TXSR graphics card against the competition to find out if a factory-…
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  • …Geforce 9500GT/9400GT or other Radeon HD 4670s.
    Having said that, you have to remember that all our benchmarks were conducted at extremely high resolutions with high quality settings, x4 AA and x16 AF … all…
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  • …of the Radeon HD 4830, but interestingly, they turned out to be pretty good performers. In all our benchmarks, both Radeon HD 4830 cards from HIS and Sapphire were outperformed by the more powerfull Radeon HD…
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  • …and 11.8% on the memory.
    To find the maximum temperature, I opted to use FurMark. A popular OpenGL benchmark, if you don’t get artifacts after 1 hour of running this badboy, your overclocked card is…
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  • …evolution in graphics cards, and delivers a product nearly as grand as their Radeon HD 4870 X2. Benchmark Reviews has been fortunate to test the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 Dual-GPU video card 11139-00-40R…
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  • …’s Radeon HD 4850 x2 will do little to sway your opinion. While it performed solidly enough in our benchmarks, it failed to match NVIDIA’s single-GPU GTX 280 offering. Nevertheless, it remains a …
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  • …, although the lack of a side panel on our PC obviously contributed to this. When it came to our benchmarks, the HD 4870 was predictably solid. The increased memory bandwidth naturally translated to some…
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News Articles

  • Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! …
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  • Much like the HD 4850, the card gets very hot during operation — expect temperature … Our other DX10 game test was the benchmark demo Call of Juarez, …
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  • In this review we will benchmark HD 4850 from Sapphire and compare it to its main competitors from nVidia. Is this video card a good buy? Check it out. …
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  • With the introduction of its HD 4000-series graphics cards, … reasonable HD 4850 X2, and we've got the Sapphire variant of this configuration on test to …
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  • It seems a little steep compared to what you can get a Radeon HD 4870 X2, and we 're not sure how many of these cards Sapphire will sell at this price point.
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  • Benchmark Results: 3DMark06 showed that the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ was faster than the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 by 15.5% and the HIS Radeon HD 4870 by 1.3% …
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  • They're priced identically, and performance is hard to tell apart, but in the few benchmarks where one card has a clear advantage it's this one.
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  • Our benchmarks showed it to be up to 3x faster than the … out when we took a couple of Sapphire cards and compared them to Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9800 …
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  • Results: The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 and HIS Radeon HD 4870 do well here, but remember ATI cards can only go up to 4x AA on this benchmark while the NVIDIA …
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  • We will also compare the cards against a stock clocked HD 4850 from Sapphire to see how the extra MHz on the core and memory go for performance. …
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Blog Articles

  • Mushkin 8GB 5-4-4-12-1.8v-996587, Graphics Card Radeon HD 4850 X2. Hard Drive 4×250GB Raid 3×500GB Raid 1TB all Segate, Power Supply Antec Earth Watts E-650. CPU cooling. Thermalright 120 Extream, OS Vista 64, Monitor Dell 3008WFP SyncMaster 204b LG 50PC1DR … Stop using sequential benchmarks. The information you have posted means pretty much nothing except that both your laptop and desktop storage controllers are crappy. …
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  • Foxconn BLoodrage GTI (still awaiting RMA) I dont play games or do video editing anymore, so im tempted to downgade all parts and go i5 with onboard video card… What do you guys suggest ? All i do now is Audio editing …. AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.86GHz @ 1.392v, Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P, Memory G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 (PC3 12800), Graphics Card SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4890 1GB. Hard Drive 250GB WD Black, Power Supply Zalman ZM750-HP 750W Modular, Case …
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  • “A week ago we looked at the brand-new ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card under Linux. This graphics card launch was unlike any in ATI’s history where with the introduction of a brand new product generation, Linux users were greeted by same- day Linux support — both through their … Today we’re publishing our complete review of the new ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB as well as delivering additional benchmarks from the Radeon HD 4850 under Linux, of course.” Source: Phoronix …
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  • Radeon 5850. Its a monster of a card. It even beat the GeForce GTX 285 in a lot of benchmarks. But this card might be a bit of overkill for that kind of resolution. If you plan on getting a bigger monitor, then grab the 5850. XFX has a lifetime warranty … SAPPHIRE 100270SR Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB 512-bit (256-bit x 2) GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as px?Item=N82E16814102809 repdmason | Feb 03, 2010 …
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  • Sapphire 4850 Video Cad Review – w/ Game benchmarks. Saphire 4850 Video Card Promo Code – EMCYRYW53 Brand SAPPHIRE Model 100245HDMI Interface Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16 Chipset Chipset Manufacturer ATI GPU Radeon HD 4850 …
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  • While we might see small improvements by adding another CPU, we can see nearly double the performance by doubling the number of processors in a graphics card (as long as there are no other bottlenecks anyway). … The initial installment also introduces the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB. Though we expected AMD to push the 4850 X2 out in the same way they launched the 4870 X2, we’ve only seen one version of the 4850 X2 hit the scenes late last year from Sapphire. …
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  • Today Sapphire is launching a pair of Radeon HD 5850 cards: the 5850 Vapor-X and the 5850 Toxic Edition. Both of these cards use a new custom design – a custom PCB, custom chokes, and of course a custom cooler – making the set of them the …. a stock Sapphire 5850 that runs at 900 core/1300 memory at stock voltage, and 1000/1300 at 1.25v using AMD GPU clock tool and MSI Afterburner utility. stable in Crysis benchmark looping and Furmark. this was from an early batch too, …
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  • Around the same time, ATI launched their Radeon HD 4850 video card which competes directly with the GeForce 9800 GTX. Then, after a few on-again off-again launch dates, NVIDIA and ATI did an excellent job of confusing the community … Sapphire has followed-up this pattern by adding some stand-out features of their own. Benchmark Reviews tests the Radeon HD 4870 Toxic edition video card from Sapphire. This RV770 graphics solution offers factory overclocked performance and …
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  • Back in June we were first to deliver Radeon HD 4850 benchmarks on Linux just after the new high-end ATI/AMD GPUs were launched. We were also successful in using the Radeon HD 4850 with an open-source driver and had exclusively shared … These new Linux features are coming soon, but today we are looking at a new Radeon HD 4850 graphics card from Sapphire Technology. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Toxic 512MB ships with a performance-oriented Zalman cooler and it also comes …
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  • Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB CrossFire Video Card Review @ PCSTATS. “The ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card that was launched last week brought full DirectX 11 support, ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream technology support for … DirectX 11 card so today we are taking a look at a 5670 that we recieved from ATI for testing, we are going to run it with both some DirectX10 and 11 tests and also see how it does in various benchmark programs, so stick around. …
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