GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 REVIEW
"This is a review of the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 which we are comparing to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is a pixel shading powerhouse boasting 800 Unified Shaders compared to 320 with the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 which means that the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 has 60% more shading power. However the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 is using powerful GDDR4 memory and the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is using slower GDDR3 memory. Another advantage for the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 is the 20% higher GPU speed compared to the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The game benchmarks we will be using in this section are Crysis, Lost Planet, Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance and World in Conflict."
| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
| VIDEO CARD | GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 |
| SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 | |
| ATI DRIVER | CATALYST v8.7 |
| PROCESSOR | AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 |
| MOTHERBOARD | ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2 |
| MEMORY | 2 x 1GB OCUK PC3200 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 3 |
| DIRECTX | v9.0c |
CRYSISHIGH QUALITY
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 |
COMMENT - "Crysis is a very demanding game which is very Pixel Shader intensive and should allow the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 to show what it's 800 Pixel Shaders can do. The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 outperforms the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 by 24%." |
LOST PLANETHIGH QUALITY
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 |
COMMENT - "Lost Planet is a fairly Shader intensive game which is why the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 outperforms the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 by 18%." |
SUPREME COMMANDER |
 | 51 |
 | 40 |
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870
COMMENT - "Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is an intense strategy game involving a large number of units. The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 delivered smooth gameplay even at high quality settings. The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 outperforms the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 by 20%."
WORLD IN CONFLICTHIGH QUALITY
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 |
COMMENT - "We have found that World in Conflict was usually processor limited so we were not surprised to see the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 beat the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 by 5%." |
FINAL RESULTSYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS
GAMES BENCHMARKS
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3870 COMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 performed very well with all of the games we used for testing and always offered more performance than the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is a very powerful video card and we look forward to testing it in our new powerful system in a later review. Although the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 did run hot with it reaching 65c after benchmarking it was always 100% stable. Even though the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is one of the most powerful video cards we have used it was also almost silent which is impressive. I can't recommend the Gainward Radeon 4850 highly enough, the Gainward Radeon HD 4850 is an excellent video card!" |
 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 SCORES 10/10! |
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 REVIEW INDEX
| PAGE 1 - GAINWARD RADEON HD 4850 INTRODUCTION |
| PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, LIGHTSMARK AND SHADERMARK |
| PAGE 3 - GAMES BENCHMARKS AND FINAL RESULT |
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