The new ATi Radeon 4870 promises to be the best performace/price graphics card, while Nvidia still raises the threshold prices for high-performance graphics, AMD made a smart move putting on the market its new series available at great prices for the performance of products.

This new 4000 series will be composed by two cards, the Radeon 4850 and Radeon 4870 both based on the new RV770 chip and the announced prices are $199 and $299 respectively.

• 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
• 256-bit GDDR3/4/5 memory interface
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support

As we can see the AMD Radeon HD 4850 actually beat the new Nivida GeForce GTX 280 on the Pixel Shader 2.0a test, but loses on all the others.

But what we want is game tests. Let's see the results on the best game ever made Call of Duty 4.

Keep in mid that this card is the low-end 4850, the 4870 card was not tested.

We also added a video from YouTube which shows the HD 4850 running the Crytek Crysis.

The new Radeon HD 4850 is a great card for the value and we hope the HD 4870 follows this concept.