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    Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Bill from Sapphire drops in to show us two versions of the HD4600 series... including a completely passive version, possibly for a gaming capable HTPC?
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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Nice midrangers, those cards.

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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Good card for roughly £70 and silent too. But still its too close to the price of the 4850 which can be picked up £100 and offers a serious amount of more power.

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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Really found that interesting and enjoyable. I wonder what the real world differences in games would be between a 4670 (that doesnt have a name ) and a 4850 / 4870.
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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Good card for roughly £70 and silent too. But still its too close to the price of the 4850 which can be picked up £100 and offers a serious amount of more power.
    It's only "close" in price IF you have £100 and are looking to save money and decide not too.

    BUT, if you only have £70 for a card, £100 is 43% more money.

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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreaming View Post
    I wonder what the real world differences in games would be between a 4670 (that doesnt have a name ) and a 4850 / 4870.
    Significant

    The 4670 has 320 stream processors, the 4850 / 4870 have 800. It's not going to perform anywhere near it. Various hexus reviews highlight this - the 4670 manages about 50% - 60% of the 4850 framerates at 1280x1024.

    Incidentally, I checked the performance of the HD4670 GDDR4 (from this hexus review) against the performance of a stock 4670 GDDR3 (from this hexus review) and found that you got between 1 - 2 fps more at 1280x1024, which reflects a maximum performance boost of about 5%. Of course, you have to factor in the better cooling and the interesting triumviarate of outputs...

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    Re: Sapphire's new 4600 cards - best priced performance?

    Nick did make a good point about s-video, I don't think I know anyone who ever used it.
    And the S-video cable you'd get with a graphics would be less than 6" long

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