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Sapphire 4850 X2 comes to OcUK!!

Gibbo

Gibbo

Gibbo

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Hi there

We have negotiated great pricing with Sapphire on their latest 4850 X2 graphics cards making us the cheapest in the UK:-


Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

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Designed by SAPPHIRE, the new HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB of GDDR3 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory. Four Dual Link DVI outputs are provided as well as TV-Out. This provides a choice of Multi-monitor operation or CrossFire mode in which 3D applications such as games use both on-board GPU’s together to deliver a single accelerated output on the Primary display with industry leading levels of performance.

- 2 x ATI Radeon R700 (4850) Cores running at 625MHz
- Dual TeraScale graphics engines
- 1600 Stream Processors
- 1986MHz GDDR3 Memory
- 512-Bit (2x 256-Bit) Memory Interface
- Double Precision Support
- DirectX 10.1 Support
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- 2400 Peak GigaFlops
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (2x 4850 X2 for a total of 4 GPU's)
- Dual Slot Dual Fan Active Cooler with Fan Speed Control
- HDMI compliant via dongle
- 7.1 Audio Channel Support
- Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
- Shader Model 4.1 support


Price: £224.99 ex VAT (£258.74 inc VAT)


BUY NOW!











Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 2048MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

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Designed by SAPPHIRE, the new HD 4850 X2 comprises two complete HD 4850 graphics systems on a single PCI-Express card connected by an on-board PCI Express Gen 2 bridge chip. Each GPU has 800 stream process units and a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB of GDDR3 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory. Four Dual Link DVI outputs are provided as well as TV-Out. This provides a choice of Multi-monitor operation or CrossFire mode in which 3D applications such as games use both on-board GPU’s together to deliver a single accelerated output on the Primary display with industry leading levels of performance.

- 2 x ATI Radeon R700 (4850) Cores running at 625MHz
- Dual TeraScale graphics engines
- 1600 Stream Processors
- 1986MHz GDDR3 Memory
- 512-Bit (2x 256-Bit) Memory Interface
- Double Precision Support
- DirectX 10.1 Support
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- 2400 Peak GigaFlops
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (2x 4850 X2 for a total of 4 GPU's)
- Dual Slot Dual Fan Active Cooler with Fan Speed Control
- HDMI compliant via dongle
- 7.1 Audio Channel Support
- Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support


Price: £259.99 ex VAT (£298.99 inc VAT)


BUY NOW!








These cards are both priced below GTX 280 offerings and performance wise they are on par or slightly better which makes them extremely good value for money. :)
 
Wouldnt say it's a great price, £250 would be a great price

For just £100 more you can get a 4870x2 which is basically twice as good according to most reviews

If you're spending that much on a card, you probably wont mind an extra £100 considering the performance increase
 
Steedie said:
Wouldnt say it's a great price, £250 would be a great price

For just £100 more you can get a 4870x2 which is basically twice as good according to most reviews

If you're spending that much on a card, you probably wont mind an extra £100 considering the performance increase
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Definitely!!!
 
very interesting, and they seem well priced

will wait for some reviews and see what they can do :)

recon itle be way faster than the GTX260 216?
 
Based on the above benchmarks, looks like swings and roundabouts with the GTX280 to me.
The 4850X2 is better at higher resolutions, whereas the GTX280 seems to be better at lower resolutions, far cry/crysis and unreal engine games. The games are probably due to driver support.

The 4850X2 even outperforms the 4870X2 in some reviews, so best bang/buck high end card to get if you're going ATI! Plus it can be crossfired with another 4850 or 4870. It's one huuge card though, might not fit all cases.

The GTX280 seems to have better driver support imo, and you have PhysX + CUDA enhancements, with the option to SLI of course.

Overall i'd say go with the 4850X2 if you have a 22" monitor or more, otherwise GTX280. However, drivers and the extra features of the nvidia card may push you the other way should they be important to you. Of course, your motherboard may be important if you're planning to crossfire/SLI later.

Nice price on these from OCUK actually, looking forward to seeing some members reviews surface in the next few weeks.
 
I was seriously shocked and impressed at the price, then I scrolled down and realised the top card is 2 x 512..... shame... the product text says 2GB for both.... needs a fix.

Otherwise a good card and I'd be surprised to see it far behind the 4870X2.... come ye benchmarks!

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Me too. I read the small print trying to work out the difference, and there wasn't any.

I wondered if the bottom one had a higher clock ;)
 
a 256-bit memory interface driving 1GB of GDDR3 memory, making a total of 2GB on-board memory
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Says this in the description for both models.

Personally i would rather get two cards and crossfire, the 2gb model is cheaper than two 1gb 4850s at least.
 
gibbo - are we going to put these in our pre built systems?

i think they would offer a great higher end option to customers
 
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