Radeon HD 4850 vs. Geforce 9800 GTX V2

Several websites have published a comparison of new graphic cards from AMD/ATI and NVidia. Hardware.fr released a test between the GeForce GTX 2x0 and the Radeon HD 4850.
If the GeForce GTX 2x0 was so far the flagship graphic card, it was also among the most expensive one, so targeting it for high-end users, rather that the mid-range category which represents the main market. This is the market targeted by the new AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850. With an aggressive pricing, around 150 €, this card is an excellent performer, and even pushed NVidia to refresh its GeForce 9800 GTX to with thinner engraved GPU and higher core and memory clockspeed (aka GeForce 9800 GTX+ or v2.0). Such upgrade gives the lead back to NVidia card in this market segment but the Radeon might capture a reasonable piece of the market.
This is very annoying for us Mac users to not be able to test those new models of graphic cards in our Mac, especially considering that it is rather easy to install such models in Hackintosh… Let’s hope that OpenCL in Snow leopard will solve most of those hurdles…