6.2 out of 10

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850

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User Score (73)

8.6
Expert Score (9)

9.0
Value for money (5)

5.7
Performance (3)

6.2
Picture quality (3)

7.2
Reliability (4)

7.2
Overall quality (4)

6.1
Accuracy (4)

6.1
Installation (9)

6.1
Construction (2)

6.5
Functionality (2)

6.5
3d performance (5)

6.3
Appearance (2)

6.3
Ease of setup (3)

7.2
Speed performance (3)

6.2

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Pros & Cons

quiet, supports, very good performance, features ati avivo technology, good value for money

runs very hot

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Expert Reviews

Benchmark Reviews

8.8/10

30 October 2008
Pioneers in a new era of how data is displayed and games are played, Sapphire shepherds the performance oriented with ground-breaking solutions to an environment that remains in a constant state of flux and ultimate evolution. For over ten years Sapphire has held true to its unwavering commitment, the commitment to deliver the most feature rich and soundly engineered products. Read more
- Extremely good AA/AF performance for highest-end games, Energy efficient - very low power consumption, Supports, Dual 625 MHz GPU / 2 GB of 993 MHz GDDR3, Feature...
- Consumes more power than most other products tested, Maximum post-processing Anti Aliasing is limited to 8x, Fan noise is very loud under full load, Exhausts heate...
CPU3D

8.6/10

9 July 2008
Sapphire's HD4850 is very similar to MSI's R4850 both in terms of performance and speed. Well, it's not surprising as both cards are based on AMD/ATI's referernce designs. In all of our benchmarks the peformance was very good. No complaints here. Like the MSI R4850, the Sapphire Radeon HD4850 uses the same RV770 Pro GPU with a clock speed of 625Mhz, but their GDDR3 memory runs slightly faster at 1996Mhz (2 x 993Mhz). Read more
- - AMD/ATI's Radeon HD4850 (RV770 Pro) GPU, - Very good performance, - Supports Crossfire configuration, - 480 Processor Streams, - DX10.1 support, - Cheap
- - Runs very HOT!, - No bundled games
Hardware Canucks

13 January 2010
100242 2 year If you think back to a few years ago (circa 2002 to 2003), ATI was flying high with the release of some of the best graphics cards on the market with the 9800 and 9700-series which were considered to be the crème de la crème at the time. These cards were competing against a somewhat mixed bag in the Nvidia lineup which included the solid 4-series and the lackluster 5-series. Read more
TechRadar UK

9.0/10

4 November 2008
At the very top, money-no-object sphere, it's all about the GTX280; at the high-performance mid-sector there's the GTX260; and ruling the roost on the budget, price/performance side may we introduce to you the HD4850. It's about time, AMD. Read more
- Bargain price, Good AA performance, Holds its own at mid-res
- Runs incredibly hot
Legit Reviews

20 February 2009
In the $300 price segment, the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850x2 can't be accused of bringing a knife to a gunfight; with 1600 Stream processors, 2GB of GDDR3 memory running at 993MHz, and two GPU's clocked at 625MHz all packed on the massive 11 1/4" single PCI-Express circuit board, the HD 4850 X2 is ready to go against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX280, as well as today's most popular games. Read more