powercolor 4850 2Gb ddr3 hahahhaha what a bullshit

generalRage1982hrv · 11th Aug 2008, 11:56 PM

first what a bullshit from powercolor
they are puting 512DDR5 on cards and call it as 2Gb models of DDR3 LOL
and seling it for much higher price (~250$ usd)
and card dont even have higher resoults in fact it haves lower
performance than regular 4850 512ddr3 (180$ usd)
what a load of crap if you ask me
check it out : Radeon HD 4850 2 GB GDDR3 review

iModAMD · 12th Aug 2008, 03:42 AM

Marketing Bling Bling my friend

Adrian Wong · 12th Aug 2008, 05:20 AM

I think you mean they replaced the 512MB GDDR5 with 2GB of GDDR3.

generalRage1982hrv · 12th Aug 2008, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

I think you mean they replaced the 512MB GDDR5 with 2GB of GDDR3.

maybe, maybe not! take a look

Mac Daddy · 12th Aug 2008, 08:15 AM

Interesting

Lacus · 12th Aug 2008, 10:35 AM

Might be some typo error lol...

generalRage1982hrv · 12th Aug 2008, 10:21 PM

it dose not have to be typo error
mostly because 512drr5 i realy like/same as 2048Mb of ddr3

Chai · 12th Aug 2008, 11:22 PM

There's a typo on 512MB. It's supposed to be 2GB.

All 4850 (reference card) comes with GDDR3, while 4870 comes with GDDR5.

As for the reason why 2GB is slower than 512MB, answer is simple. The RAM clockspeed is actually slower, and most games will not benefit from the additional RAM buffer.

generalRage1982hrv · 12th Aug 2008, 11:51 PM

know and i dont see a point of making a gpu with 2Gb of ddr3 on it
1Gb is also too much but it will benefit only video decoding/encoding
so why did they put 2Gb
maybe only to get more cash for gpu that dose not haves enough power

Unixlord · 13th Aug 2008, 01:11 AM

Lol that's pretty messed up. HIS and Sapphire are much more reliable in all aspects.

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Chai Administrator Join Date: 6 Oct 2002 Location: Maranello Posts: 27,870 Reputation: 4630 Rep Power: 81	There's a typo on 512MB. It's supposed to be 2GB. All 4850 (reference card) comes with GDDR3, while 4870 comes with GDDR5. As for the reason why 2GB is slower than 512MB, answer is simple. The RAM clockspeed is actually slower, and most games will not benefit from the additional RAM buffer. __________________ Chai (Contributor & Forum Admin) http://www.techarp.com/

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