Posts Tagged ‘radeon hd 4850’

[TEST] MSI R4850 Hybrid Frozr Tortured by FurMark: Sawtooth GPU Temperature

[Article] 10 Most Popular Graphics Cards July 2009

XFX Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 Pictured

The Future of Gaming: Dell XPS 730x with Core i7 and GeForce GTX 280

Other Interesting Weekly News In Brief…

Three VGA Coolers Tortured by FurMark

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Graphics Cards:

• Video card stability test?
• Best card for 1920×1200 gaming?
• MSI Radeon HD 4850 Video Card R4850-512M
• Giz Explains: Why Does the MacBook Pro Have Two Graphics Cards?
• Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo VGA Cooler Review
• ATI HD 4350 vs NVIDIA 9400 GT
• Sapphire HD 4870 TOXIC Edition Review

Other Hardware:

• Thermaltake Blacx Docking Station N0028USU

Programming:

• Python 3.0 makes a big break
• Debugging Memory Corruption in Game Development
• OpenGL Video Tutorial
• irrKlang audio library 1.1.2
• A Hobbyist Game Engine Post Mortem

Software:

• CPU-Z 1.48

Misc:

• managed textures
• Do Software Versions Really Matter?
• Graphics processing units to general processing units
• Reality To Go: 3-D Virtual Reality On Mobile Devices
• Google’s Chrome Declining In Popularity

See you next week with the release of GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.0…

Far Cry 2 Does Not Need a High-End PC

Catalyst 8.10: OpenGL Extensions List and Geometry Instancing Support

HIS Radeon HD 4850 Review

I took the time this morming to publish the test of HIS’s Radeon HD 4850 I started on month ago. I must say that Radeon HD 4850 shows high OpenGL performances and as always, vertex processing is incredibly fast (see surface deformer benchmark). At idle, GPU temperature is around 70°C while under load the temperature reaches 93°C (3-minute test with GPU Caps Viewer burner).

The full test is available here: HIS Radeon HD 4850 Graphics Card Review.

Other Weekly News In Brief

Graphics Cards:

• Le GPU Chrome 430 ULP de S3 dans deux premiers portables
• Palit Radeon 4850 Sonic Review
• PCGH driver review: Catalyst 8.10 with noticeable improvements

Other Hardware:

• Best CPU Cooler Performance – Q3 2008

Programming:

• OpenGL Type Traits
• OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide – Book Review
• Direct3D Demos Collection
• Unreal Engine 3.5 for consoles first: Will PC gamers miss something?

Softwares:

• Raytracing: Yaf(a)Ray 0.1.0

Misc:

• Unbreakable encryption unveiled
• Fake YouTube Pages Used to Spread Viruses

HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX Review

Hexus has publihed a test of HIS’s Radeon HD 4850 featuring the IceQ4 cooling system. This cooler keeps the temperature to 46°C at idle and around 58°C under load.

Read the complete review here: HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX – the best a man can get?

Related links:

• Radeon HD 4850: HIS IceQ4, Sapphire Toxic and Gainward Golden Sample Mistreated by FurMark
• HIS Radeon HD 4850 ICEQ4 TurboX review @ Guru3D

ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta Graphics Drivers

The upcoming (october 2008 version) Catalyst graphics driver is available in BETA version. You can download the huge archive (~200Mb) here:
- Catalyst 8.10 BETA for Vista
- Catalyst 8.10 BETA for XP

As soon as the WHQL version is available, I will publish the OpenGL extensions because GPU Caps Viewer told me that Cat8.10 has around 115 extensions…

Here are the screenshots of my Radeon HD 4850 and Catalyst 8.10 BETA under XP32:

Radeon HD 4850: HIS IceQ4, Sapphire Toxic and Gainward Golden Sample Mistreated by FurMark

Catalyst 8.9: OpenGL Extensions – Radeon HD 4850

Here is the list of OpenGL extensions supported by the Catalyst 8.9 graphics drivers for the Radeon HD 4850 under Windows XP SP2 32-bit.

• GL_AMD_texture_texture4
• GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate (OpenGL 1.5)
• GL_EXT_depth_buffer_float

GL_EXT_depth_buffer_float has the same role than NVIDIA GL_NV_depth_buffer_float. GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate is an OpenGL 1.5 extension and GL_AMD_texture_texture4 is not documented. But most of the new OpenGL 3 extensions quoted in the release note are not present in Catalyst 8.9 under Windows XP and Vista. Maybe AMD/ATI have introduced the same principle than NVIDIA, with a kind of OpenGL 3.0 activation somewhere (see here). But here again, no documentation is available. Or more simply, AMD want to show to the community that they do an effort to support the new major version of OpenGL, but any OpenGL 3 extension is currently available to developers. Communication is a tough art at ATI!

Catalyst 8.9, like Catalyst 8.8, still slow down the GPU when FurMark is detected (see here and here for more detail).

Graphics driver information:
- Operating System: Windows XP SP2 32-bit
- Drivers Version: 8.501.0.0 – Catalyst 08.9
- ATI Catalyst Version String: 08.9
- ATI Catalyst Release Version String: 8.53-080820a-068898C-ATI
- OpenGL Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
- Drivers Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
- OpenGL Version: 2.1.7976 Release
- GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) Version: 1.20
- ARB Texture Units: 8
- Vertex Shader Texture Units: 16
- Pixel Shader Texture Units: 16
- Geometry Shader Texture Units: 0
- Max Texture Size: 8192×8192
- Max Anisotropic Filtering Value: X16.0
- Max Point Sprite Size: 8192.0
- Max Dynamic Lights: 8
- Max Viewport Size: 8192×8192
- Max Vertex Uniform Components: 512
- Max Fragment Uniform Components: 512
- Max Varying Float: 68
- Max Vertex Bindable Uniforms: 0
- Max Fragment Bindable Uniforms: 0
- Max Geometry Bindable Uniforms: 0
- MSAA: 1X
- MSAA: 2X
- MSAA: 4X
- MSAA: 8X

OpenGL Extensions: 108 extensions

The extensions exposed by the old Catalyst drivers are HERE.
You can use GPU Caps Viewer to retrieve the list of extensions of your graphics card.

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