Power consumption tests from other sites put the 4870 at around 70-85W on idle.

I wonder what happened to PowerPlay+?

Why does a card need 70-85W for 2D when IGP can do it with about 10W. That's about $4-7 a month just for doing 2D.

New drivers improve this

Techpowerup has a different benchmark mechanism then Xbit labs, or they are using other drivers

ATI Catalyst:
Catalyst A.I.: Standard
Mipmap Detail Level: High Quality
High Quality AF: On
Wait for vertical refresh: Always Off
Enable Adaptive Anti-Aliasing: On/Quality
Method: Multi-sampling
Temporal Anti-Aliasing: Off
Other settings: default

Nvidia ForceWare:
Texture filtering - Quality: High quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: Off
Texture filtering – Anisotropic sample optimization: Off
Vertical sync: Force off
Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
Antialiasing - Transparency: Multisampling
Other settings: default

McKnight you are an ass

I asked what driver not what settings

These go against this article -
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20080704150832_N vidia_Plans_Further_Price_Cuts_for_Latest_Graphics_Cards.htm l

where it says that the 4850 takes on the GTX280

Mcknight, you are a noob and this website is getting worse every week

and looking at McKnight, I can see what asses read this website

Jeez, man, what's your problem? You come in here throwing insults left and right. I think you should reconsider your opinions about who's an ass.

I have no problem

I posted a truthful article about what I thi then Mcknight started

If you don't have anything constructive to say about my criticism than you shouldn't comment either.

F**** BUMPKIN NOOB RETARD THIS REVIEW IS WRONG HOW F**** DUMB YOU ARE TO NOT SEE THE TROTH ???????????????????.OTHERS REVIEWERS HAVE DONE AN GOOD BENCH BUT THIS IS CRAP LIKE YOU AND OTHERS BLIND NOOBS.NOOBS YOU MAY STUPID ITSELF WITH nSitia,nTRASHISA,nSTINKIA,nOOBIDIA(nVidia) MARKETING NNNOOOBBBSSS.LOL

reading your words, it seems you are a frustrated little boy... your life must really suck hard...i feel sorry for you

Wow, please review your English please.

As a member of this fine site, they did worked hard at putting this review together. There is no need to bash, it just makes the basher look like he or she has no IQ points.

And please try to relocate your CAPS LOCK key, it is annoying.

He's probably CONSCIOUS BUYER hiding under a different alias! They both have the same english!

What a whack job!!

But other than that i nice review as per x-bit lab standards :D

it is a crap review

They have managed to come to a conclusion that no other site can

This is not the first bad review this site has posted, and again, I am at least glad that the editor was awake for once and we didn't get the usual engrish article they seem to have been putting out of late

Read the Intel x48 review as an example

if you are want a decent and accurate review, go to Anandtech or Tomshardware.

Xbitlabs articles seem to be late, and be badly written and researched

And if you disagree with me, please post a decent comeback