PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 with 2 GB memory review Guru3D

I was thinking of this solution myself.

I suppose it depends on what the Don thinks.

Btw, does anyone else have the same issue? Or is it just me using a low resolution or something?

 

That's most likely the reason.

 

Wasn't there rumors of a GDDR4 version of a 4850 coming? We've all seen that the 4800 core loves bandwidth (see 4870), so that could be a good way to really make use of that powerhouse chip.

 

I try to understand why you take Mass-Effekt to test the difference between the Memory-Sizes?

Even in 2560x1600 ME do not take more than 256MB VRAM.

 

Even Grid is hard to take over 512MB

 

If you're running a 32-bit system, either XP or Vista, the graphics memory will indeed bite a 2GB chunk out of your system memory and reduce your current 4 gigs to below 2, so if you wish to make use of this card, 64-bit is the way to go.

 

The cards memory is clocked lower if Im correct right? Dont have time to read the review yet, just looked over the posts here.

 

1GB of GDDR5 would make it a 4870. The core could be overclocked fairly easily to 4870 speeds, the difference in the two cards is really just the memory.