AMD
sent out a slide on the Radeon HD 4830 performance vs the GeForce 9800 GT
with 6 games benchmarks. No words on the system configuration or drivers used
for these tests. AMD is banking heavily on this card to outperform and to
outsell the GeForce 9800 GT at the same price point. In another slide, it stated
that the Radeon HD 4830 series delivers up to 1.6x the performance per watt of
AMD's previous generation GPUs. 6.73 GigaFLOPS per Watt vs 4.10 GigaFLOPS per
Watt for the HD 3850.