The darling of all of this might be the $199 HD 4850 card - even though it is using GDDR3 memory it has a very strong showing in our tests and is itself able to compete with the HD 3870 X2 card. If it weren't for NVIDIA's recent price drop on the 9800 GTX and 9800 GTX+ cards to $199-229 the HD 4850 would have been the run-away victor; NVIDIA obviously caught wind of the performance of RV770 and made adjustments in pricing to make themselves competitive again though. In truth the performance of both options is pretty much neck and neck - with a slight edge going to AMD's new RV770-based HD 4850 card.