Still, the Radeon HD 4850 is an impressive product, and one could easily argue that it is more impressive than a cheap GeForce 9800 GTX. Furthermore, last month it was predicted by a graphics card maker that AMD would grab 40% share of the discrete graphics card market in the third quarter of 2008, up from 30% at the start of the year. With the Radeon HD 4870 and 4870 X2 graphics cards also on the way, things continue to look up for AMD, while Nvidia are not doing nearly as well as they would have liked with the ultra expensive GeForce GTX 200 series.

Source: Legion Hardware