The successful video card ( price and performance ) radeon HD 4850 presented threat for the GeForce GTX 280 when associated in crossfire regime. In this case the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 support the technology 3-Way SLI, which allow to unite in one system three video cards. Does this indicate that three or four video card radeon HD 4850 in one system can restore AMD leadership?


Associate combined in one system two, three and four video cards radeon HD 4850. Now we can estimate the effectiveness of radeon HD 4850 in crossfire X regime. Motherboards with four slots PCI express x16 are not many. The good news that the radeon HD 4850 use one slot cooler . Let us immediately note that with the current driver version it was possible to obtain a noticeable performance increase from two to four video card was observed only in unreal tournament 2003, and also in the tests 3DMark' 06 and 3DMark vantage. Currently there is no sense to buy radeon HD 4850 on three or four pieces .