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  ATI HD4830

  Roydon Cerejo, Nov 05, 2008 1810 hrs IST

  The 9800GT killer cometh.

  Strong DX10 performance, Single slot design, Quiet fan.

  Gets hot quickly, Only slightly cheaper than the 4850.

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Page 1 - Specs Page 2 - The card Page 3 - Synthetic benchmarks Page 4 - Game benchmarks - F.E.A.R Page 5 - Game benchmarks - Quake Page 6 - Game benchmarks - HL 2 Page 7 - Game benchmarks - UT Page 8 - Game benchmarks - Crysis Page 9 - Game benchmarks - Crysis Warhead Page 10 - Game benchmarks - CoJ Page 11 - Game benchmarks - FarCry 2 Page 12 - Performance and Conclusion

The last nail in the coffin! ATI shows no mercy, once again, by launching a card targeted exactly where Nvidia seems to be doing well. I'm talking about the 7-8K price segment where the 9800 GT seems to be hogging the limelight.

The newest card from the red team is powered by a derivative of the RV770 core now called the RV770 LE. The new core sports a reduced shader count of 640 instead of the 800 as seen on the HD4850 and a slightly reduced core and memory speed.

We already know that the 9800GT is around 12-15% slower than the HD4850 so with the reduced shaders, the HD4830 seems evenly matched with its competitor and battle should be fierce. There's only one way to find out though; so let's get started.

Apart from the shaders being reduced, the core clock has been lowered to 575MHz and the memory is clocked at 1800MHz. The transistor count remains the same at 956M like the HD 4850. Thankfully the memory bus width is still 256-bit and the sample we got comes with 512MB of GDDR3 onboard.

Page 1 - Specs Page 2 - The card Page 3 - Synthetic benchmarks Page 4 - Game benchmarks - F.E.A.R Page 5 - Game benchmarks - Quake Page 6 - Game benchmarks - HL 2 Page 7 - Game benchmarks - UT Page 8 - Game benchmarks - Crysis Page 9 - Game benchmarks - Crysis Warhead Page 10 - Game benchmarks - CoJ Page 11 - Game benchmarks - FarCry 2 Page 12 - Performance and Conclusion

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