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The graphics-card market has become exciting again. NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 200-series family a couple of weeks ago, cementing 18-month-old single-GPU performance leadership.

Just a week later, however, ATI hit back with the price-to-performance salvo of Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870, forcing NVIDIA to cut comparison-GPU pricing until 55nm GeForce 9800 GTX hits the shelves, later on this month.

Heute hat AMD die Radeon HD 4870 X2 und HD 4850 X2 vorgestellt, mit den Dual GPU Lösungen der beliebten Mainstreamkarten HD 4870 und HD 4850 versucht AMD nVidia die Performancekrone im Grafikkartenmarkt streitig zu machen. Pünktlich zum Launch hat Computerbase einen entsprechenden Test veröffentlicht, ob AMD das Vorhaben gelungen ist?

I want to begin this article by expressing that like many of you reading this article, I spent money on 9800-series GeForce products thinking that my choice would be free of buyers remorse for at least a year. After all, it wasn't all that long ago that the GeForce 8800 series landed itself atop the competition and reigned supreme for well over a year. So it seemed logical that when NVIDIA launched their 9800 series, that things would somehow remain the same.

No sooner had we finished our in-depth game benchmarking of this summer’s latest graphics cards and architectures, then the first pre-overclocked partner cards began to arrive.

Claiming performance increases of up to 12 percent, we decided to put these warranty covered overclocks to the test, and see just how much extra performance you get by paying extra for that bit more juice.