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Graphics Slugfest: ATI Radeon HD 4850 CF, HD 4870, HD 4870 CF vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280
Preview: PowerColor HD 4850 512MB

Published on Thursday, July 17 2008 10:00 am by VRArchiver

Filed under: Archives, Graphics Card, Reviews

Next up, we have the Powercolor HD 4850 512MB. This card is also based on the ATI reference design, and is clocked similarly as well at 625MHz core, and 993MHz memory.

The PowerColor HD 4850 512MB card.

The rear of the PowerColor HD 4850 512MB, which reveals an ATI reference design.

As we mentioned earlier on, most manufacturers use the ATI reference design. One can only differentiate the cards from different manufacturers by the labels on it.

A single 6-pin PCI Express power connector on the Radeon HD 4850.

ATI CrossFire (up to 4-way) ready.

Hot air from the graphics card is exhausted towards the back of the card. The downside is that the exhausted air gets circulated around the casing as you cannot get the hot air exhausted out of the case. Dual-slot solutions are better in this aspect, but of course, you lose the use of the neighbouring card slot.

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