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Old 27th Oct 2008, 13:40
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what nvidia card can you compare the 4850 to because im thinking of getting the 4850 mainly because its cheap especially this one ive seen

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Old 27th Oct 2008, 17:10
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9800GTX+ is the nVidia comparison.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 00:29
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yeah but 4800 series has got 800 cores compared to nvidias 200 series 200 cores
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 01:28
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You can't compare video cards across brands by clock speed, stream processors or anything, only benchmarks.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 05:57
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Yea, only benchmarks are good comparisons.

I don't know about the Nvidia 9800GTX+, but I would say the GTX260 is a fairly close comparison.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 14:06
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yeah. back in the day the stream processors were an easy way to tell general performance. Now, there is no other way to tell other than benchmarks.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 15:54
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The GTX260, afaik, competes with the 4870, GTX280 with the 4870X2 afaik. I get sort of confused on this sometimes though but I'm pretty sure that's right.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 16:09
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Recent PC Gamer mag benching puts them @

4850 - GTX260

4870 - GTX280

ATi variants being a shed load cheaper.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 16:24
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4870 X2 > GTX280 > 4870 (1GB) > GTX260 > 4850

From my own research, this is the configuration I found would be true, from best to worst.
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Old 28th Oct 2008, 16:29
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Yea, I agree, the ATI versions are only slightly behind performance wise, but miles behind cost wise.

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