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ATI have come roaring back this past year with first their 3000 series of cards and leapfrogged Nvidia in performance and value with the 4000 series of cards. We've now looked at a number of variations, three alone for the 4800 series but there is at least one more gap to fill for the 4800 series of cards and this is what ATI and AMD are launching today in the Radeon 4830. Let's take a look at this new part and what it has to offer.

As you're probably aware the 4870X2 dominates the upper echelon of graphics cards right now and is a hefty price tag of around $500, the Radeon 4870 follows at around $250-$300 and the $4850 at $140-$200. The recently launched 4670 came in at $79 which is a large gap between the 4850. This is where the 4830 comes in as a $100-$140 part and in performance targeting more so the 8800 GT series of cards. This card is AMD's answer to that and fills a product hole the company had.
 

The Radeon 4830 uses 512MB of GDDR3 memory as with the 4850, is a single slot card, uses 1x6 pin power connector, maxes out at 110W, and is PCI-Express 2.0 compliant. Physically the card looks quite similar to the Radeon HD 4850 with not much to distinguish it. And the feature set from the 4000 series of cards is all here, second-gen 55nm manufacturing process, DX 10.1 support, CrossfireX technology, PowerPlay for energy savings, UVD2 for H.264 decoding, 7.1 audio output over HDMI.

Here are the specs on the various Radeon 4800 cards.