ASUS RADEON HD 4850/4870 and GeForce GTX 285/295 Review

More and more plain reference copies are released into the market, and it’s a sad situation for reviewers, as there is no point in presenting just another copy for the Nth time.

Fortunately, company’s R&D department still exists in its full strength, so we have an opportunity to see original ASUS products from time to time.

Still, there are some exceptions: e.g. NVIDIA GTX 2xx products have been represented only by reference designs so far. But those are special because of the complex PCB design with 512-bit and 448-bit buses. Engineers haven’t probably come up with their own cheaper design yet. And if it’s not cheaper, there is no point in it.

Let’s examine new cards from ASUS based on top NVIDIA GPUs as well as Mid-End GPUs from AMD.

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