The VisionTek Radeon HD 4850 is lean, slick, and a stick of dynamite in a knife fight when up against the competition. Delivering a product to the market for $199 that packs this much punch is almost shockingly refreshing. If you read (or write) many hardware reviews, you might get a bit jaded after hearing how every new product comes out is this fast, or that fast, or this much faster than the last fast. But really, for the performance levels put out by this single-slot card, relatively speaking as new generations of video cards go, for $199 the HD4850 just inspires.