ATi Radeon HD 4770 Crossfire vs Nvidia GTX 285

Keywords: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB review crossfire
The HD 4770 is here, and what a graphics card it is.

You've probably already read the reviews around the web but lets look at what's been somewhat overlooked, HD4770 CrossFire benchmarks:

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A contender for the GeForce GTX 285, 275 and HD 4890 at a lower price point and power consumption. With these cards pulling in 150W to 200W, Xbitlabs has measured a power consumption of 50W for the HD 4770 card - or 100W for two of them.
For owners of systems with dual PCI-e x16, this is definitely something to consider.

Some might call it a revolutionary card, I call it progress instead; progress like we haven't seen in a while, were a company puts it's fears aside and builds the best card it can for a given price point and manufacturing technology - little compromise and no crippling the card with fewer texture units or ROPs, as is usual for $100 cards; stuff which costs little transistor budget and is sabotaged purely for product placement strategies.
This card makes the HD 4850 mostly pointless, yet, that is progress - it's a more expensive card to build and it should go away now. It has been like this with the 4670 and 3850 and this is how it should be from now on.

It's remarkable what AMD GPG has been doing for the last year and we as consumers can only rejoice. They are also happy, they (the Graphics Product Group) are profitable, which is even more remarkable nowadays.
I have been following the graphics market since the debut of the 3dfx Voodoo and I can only appluad at what I'm seeing nowadays from the red camp.