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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