But, surely, it's an HD 4850?
Let's play a game called 'spot the difference'. The picture, above, is of a reference Radeon HD 4830 512MB card that was received by HEXUS.labs earlier this week.
Both cards are, for all intents and purposes the same, lending further credence to HD 4830 GPUs not quite making the higher grade and then being marked down as such.
Another picture that validates the lack of physical difference.
The card clocks in at standard speeds, that is, 575MHz core and 1,800MHz memory. The single-slot cooler is very quiet when in either 2D or 3D modes but doesn't cool the memory chips underneath.
512MB of GDDR3 is contained on the topside, obviously, with nothing of note on the back. We expect to see partners release even-cheaper 256MB-equipped boards in the next few weeks, too.
A couple of CrossFireX fingers means that you can run up to three additional boards for multi-GPU speed-up, and that may well be a viable option if you're considering two and the overall budget is south of £200.
AMD states an HD 4850-matching power-draw figure of 110W, but we reckon that it will be a little lower than the non-LE card's. Still, though, that's enough to necessitate an auxillary six-pin PCIe power connector.
The outputs are what we've come to expect from any modern card. Dual-link DVI supports HDMI passthrough, just like the HD 4850/4870-series.
Summary
The Radeon HD 4850 (4830, ahem) is virtually identical to its bigger brother and that's no bad thing.
