The Sapphire HD 4850 in blue breeze
Lately, Sapphire announced it’s HD 4850 in completely blue. Featuring a blue PCB, 1GB GDDR3 and a new cooler, the Sapphire HD 4850 feels like the breeze to attract ATI fans. It will be perfect if the card is as cool as it looks.
a totally new cooler, hope it won’t be worse than the reference cooler
except for the PCB color, the card share same features as a reference 4850
looking on the surface, they may share same PCB design, but saphire features 1GB GDDR3
using Qimonda 1.0ns GDDR3, 8 module sum for 1 GB memory and run at 1986 MHz
same power module as a reference card
July 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
With a new cooler I think this card will be much better
July 5th, 2008 at 1:34 am
New cooler ? I don’t think so. Only the cover seems to be different, the heatsink look the same as the 512 Mb.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:21 am
i think blue PCB and fan just so cool,better than stock
July 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
This is using the reference cooler, just compare its underside in picture 2 with the standard cooler, exactly the same.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I don’t think so. Although the two looks almost the same, actually they’re different.
As the reference card has a heatsink on the power module, while the sapphire one combines it to the main cooler.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
The refernence designs main cooler covers the power module as it is the same cooler as on the hd3850 (http://resources.vr-zone.com/Firefox/Radeon%20HD3000/IMG_0209.jpg) and the sapphire cooler is exactly the same except for the extended cover which if anything would trap hot air. It is good to see HD4850 designs with 1GB of memory but I would be more interested in a 1GB HD4870 and how that would compare to a GTX280.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I still think that the reference design looks better… Will 1GB of memory be usefull? =P
July 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
maybe run games in 2560×1600 and 1GB will be useful
July 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
In gpgpu apps the 1GB memory will be very useful!
July 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am
The Sapphire HD 4850 1GB has been presented.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
[...] Sapphire HD 4850 1GB features a blue PCB and cooler design as well as 1GB GDDR3. The card run at a reference clocks at [...]