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Sapphire HD4850 X2 review

It's big and beefy but can it compete with NVIDIA's monolith?

Our Score 3.5

Last reviewed: 2008-11-06November 6th 2008

Price at launch £310.00
Graphics Core Clockspeed 625
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
Vertex Shaders 800
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1024
MPN 111390040R
Max Supported Resolution 2560 x 1600
Interface Type PCI Express
Description Dual GPU graphics card
GPU ATI
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16

Product Summary

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Sapphire HD4850x2

Price at launch

£310.00

For

>

It's big...

Against

>

...really big

>

Expensive

>

Way behind a GTX280

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