ATI’s next line of Radeon graphics cards—the RV770-based 4800 series—doesn’t officially launch until June 25, but Hot Hardware’s got benchmarks already on the first shot, the mid-range $199 Radeon HD 4850. It’s prompted a response from Nvidia in the form of the $229 GeForce 9800 GTX+, a speedier version of the 9800 GTX on a smaller manufacturing process. But that’s just jibber jabber—the benchmarks show it’s a pretty decent mid-range card, for now.

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