Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD announced today a sub-$150 ATI Radeon HD 4830 card positioned against Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT. It has full support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFire, and claims better gaming performance in Call of Duty, Devil May Cry 4, ET: Quake Wars, Crysis, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Company of Heroes, all in 1920 x 1200 high quality mode with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled. AMD also announced playable frame rates above 30fps at up to 2560 x 1600 in some games.
Gaming specs
All tests conducted by AMD used Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU in an ASUS P5E motherboard, 4GB DDR2-800 memory (timings: 5-5-5-18), Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, ATI display driver 8.53-RC3, Nvidia display driver 177.79, on an ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB GDDR3 against a similar Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3. The test results demonstrated better gaming performance with AMD's 4830 using the following game settings:
AMD claims greater frame rates using the above settings, and in addition claims greater than 30fps rates while Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT has less than 30fps rates with the following settings:
Availability
Three manufacturers, Sapphire, HIS and PowerColor, are currently selling Radeon HD 4830 products on NewEgg.com for $129.99 with mail-in rebates of $10 or $15, making the price $119.99 or $114.99, with additional shipping of $8.25. Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT models are comparably priced between $124.99 and $129.99 on NewEgg.com.
Specs
512MB of 256-bit GDDR3 memory, 640 Stream Processing Units, 400 MHz RAMDAC, 1800MHz memory clock, DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.1, 1 HDMI (via adapter, 2 DVI, HDTV via S-Video Out, up to 2560 x 1600 video, CrossFire enabled, 6 Pin power support as well as dual-link DVI support atop a PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus.
Gaming specs
All tests conducted by AMD used Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU in an ASUS P5E motherboard, 4GB DDR2-800 memory (timings: 5-5-5-18), Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, ATI display driver 8.53-RC3, Nvidia display driver 177.79, on an ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB GDDR3 against a similar Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3. The test results demonstrated better gaming performance with AMD's 4830 using the following game settings:
| Game | Horizontal | Vertical | Settings |
| Call of Duty 4 | 1920 | 1200 | 4xAA+AF |
| Devil May Cry 4 | 1920 | 1200 | 4xAA+AF |
| ET: Quake Wars | 1920 | 1200 | 4xAA+AF |
| Crysis (DX10) | 1920 | 1200 | 2xAA+AF HQ Mode |
| Half-Life 2: Episode 2 | 1920 | 1200 | 8xAA+AF |
| Company of Heros (DX10) | 1920 | 1200 | 8xAA+AF |
AMD claims greater frame rates using the above settings, and in addition claims greater than 30fps rates while Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT has less than 30fps rates with the following settings:
| Game | Horizontal | Vertical | Settings |
| Devil May Cry 4 | 1920 | 1200 | 8xAA+AF |
| ET: Quake Wars | 1920 | 1200 | 8xAA+AF |
| Company of Heros (DX10) | 2560 | 1600 | 4xAA+AF |
Availability
Three manufacturers, Sapphire, HIS and PowerColor, are currently selling Radeon HD 4830 products on NewEgg.com for $129.99 with mail-in rebates of $10 or $15, making the price $119.99 or $114.99, with additional shipping of $8.25. Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT models are comparably priced between $124.99 and $129.99 on NewEgg.com.
Specs
512MB of 256-bit GDDR3 memory, 640 Stream Processing Units, 400 MHz RAMDAC, 1800MHz memory clock, DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.1, 1 HDMI (via adapter, 2 DVI, HDTV via S-Video Out, up to 2560 x 1600 video, CrossFire enabled, 6 Pin power support as well as dual-link DVI support atop a PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus.