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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2: another AMD-based thorn in NVIDIA's side

by Parm Mann on 4 November 2008, 12:13

Tags: Radeon HD 4850 X2, AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire, ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), PC

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Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OCXBFG GeForce GTX 260 OCX MAXSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2Force3D HD 4870PowerColor Radeon HD 4850
88.9779.77117.3142.2376.963.83


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OCXBFG GeForce GTX 260 OCX MAXSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2Force3D HD 4870PowerColor Radeon HD 4850
76.2368.0389.5124.1765.953.23


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OCXBFG GeForce GTX 260 OCX MAXSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2Force3D HD 4870PowerColor Radeon HD 4850
51.4746.6767.4382.942.233.93


Our Call of Duty 4 benchmarks put AMD's solutions in the limelight. Impressive internal CrossFire scaling on the X2 cards puts them up as the world's fastest, and second fastest, single-board GPUs - on certain titles, that is.

For the first time, we see the Radeon HD 4850 X2 fly past NVIDIA's line-topping GeForce GTX 280 - and an overclocked version at that. It's worth noting, though, that a selection of the cheaper high-end cards continue to offer acceptable framerates.