Introduction

With ATI continuing to dominate the top end graphics card market, they're releasing cards left right and centre, to get even a firmer grasp on the top end of the industry. Today I'm looking at their 4830 card, which promises some top performance with a reasonable price tag. Let's see how it does.

Features

• GDDR3 memory 256-bit memory interface
  
• DirectX® 10.1
  
• 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
  
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
  
• Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
  
• PCI Express® 2.0 support
  
• Dynamic geometry acceleration
  
• Game physics processing capability
  
• ATI Avivo™HD video and display technology Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD VideoBuilt-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound supportOn-chip HDCP
  
• ATI PowerPlay™ technology

Specifications

• I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV
  
• Core Clock: 575 MHz
  
• Memory Clock: 900MHz, 1800 Mbps.
  
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
  
• 512MB /256bit GDDR3 memory interface
  
• Dual Slot Active Cooler
  
• HDMI compliant via dongle
  
• 7.1 Audio Channel Support
  
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
  
• Shader Model 4.1 support