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Review: XFX Radeon HD 4850 XXX 512MB. £125 worth of value?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 13 March 2009, 09:22 3.95

Tags: Radeon HD 4850 512MB XXX Edition, XFX (HKG:1079), PC

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Power-draw, and temps

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Significantly better idle and load temperatures bring the card into GeForce temperature territory - handily beating out reference-equipped Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870s. XFX's cooler works, and works well.

Power

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Measured at the mains via a watt-meter, load power-draw is defined as running 3DMark06 at 1,920x1,200 at 4xAA and 16xAF. The XFX's performance is similar to the default-clocked card's, which is what we'd expect.