MSI presented yesterday the new card R4850-T2D512 (Radeon HD 4850) and R4870-T2D512 (Radeon HD 4870). According to the producer opinion , ( built in the reference design) those card has a high energy-effectiveness : those cards are branded as MSI Ecolution.


The Radeon HD 4850 include the new decoder version video UVD 2.0, which allow to reduce load on the central processor and to increase the quality of HD- video MPEG-2/VC-1/H.264. Moreover those card support the technology crossFireX, which allow to easily scale the productivity of video system. This card cost in Newegg 175 dollars (standard price is 199 dollars).