ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[Calmatory]

Olly Olly, I'm confused now.
Planning to buy a 350$ high end card before the end of july and 350$ is my max
i'm sick of buying a mid-range card every year.

anyone knows about the start prices for the new cards (both ATI & NVIDIA)

Yeah and I want to get High end cards for $200!

But really, $350 for a high end card is way too low. Spend some more.

[ihatbs]

so i forget about 9800gtx and wait for hd4870?

[AliG]

definitely imo, if anything, if the 4870 doesn't perform like you want, the g92 8800gts is available for like $170 from ECS, just buy 2 and sli them for 9800gx2 performance

[STaRGaZeR]

Olly Olly, I'm confused now.
Planning to buy a 350$ high end card before the end of july and 350$ is my max
i'm sick of buying a mid-range card every year.

anyone knows about the start prices for the new cards (both ATI & NVIDIA)

And if the new value is 350$? Killer perfomance, but it's not marketed as high-end. Will you buy it?

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[ihatbs]

Yeah and I want to get High end cards for $200!

But really, $350 for a high end card is way too low. Spend some more.

You're right, but still a 500$ vga won't do great in crysis. i was lucky last year that i couldnt have cash to buy 8800gts 320gb and bought 8600gt. i tought it was a killer card and its priced at 400$ in that time. But now it's bull in crysis.

That's why i don't want to buy just a high end card i want something can handle the 2009 games at least for medium settings. so it's really confusing but i have feeling that the prices will be awesome which will be acceptable for poor people like me

[ihatbs]

And if the new value is 350$? Killer perfomance, but it's not marketed as high-end. Will you buy it?

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I Wanna laugh but i can't

you can try again later

[STaRGaZeR]

I Wanna laugh but i can't

you can try again later

Don't worry, the one that is laughing is me

[ihatbs]

Don't worry, the one that is laughing is me

I will laugh when I buy better vga card than yours and it should be a mid-range but performs better than a high-end

[Eastcoasthandle]

Here is some more info, this time from the E n C of Nordic Hardware

asic name: rv770
revision: a12
board no.: 102-B50102-00
engine clk: 625mhz
memory manufacturer: qimonda
memory type: gddr3
memory config: 16Mx32
memory no.: HYB18H512321BF-10
memory clk: 990mhz
vddc (core voltage): 1.13v
mvddc/q (memory voltage): 2.03v
tdp: 114w

performance rv670xt +80%

As always take it with a pinch of salt. "Which adds flavor in most foods" LOL I kid, I kid...

[zerazax]

+80% over the 3870 would be amazing...

[STaRGaZeR]

I will laugh when I buy better vga card than yours and it should be a mid-range but performs better than a high-end

I just noticed, you have a 8600GT. Now I understand. That's VERY frustrating

Please don't think that 8600GT of yours is mid-range because NVIDIA says so. Any of the real mid-range cards would completely destroy that POS.

[Papu]

my laptop has one

what do people think will i be able to run a 4870 with a 2900 in CFX?

[Calmatory]

8600 aws mid range back in 2006 or so. Byt hey, we are in 2008! Just like GeForce 9600 is mid range now, but not in 2010.

[Eastcoasthandle]

We said we wouldn't reveal the final core clocks, sources told us not to, and we haven't, but since the core clock of Radeon HD 4850 core clock leaked elsewhere we though we might share the rest too. Radeon HD 4850 will sport a core clock of 625MHz and GDDR3 memory operating at 2GHz. Radeon HD 4870 has a core clock of 725MHz and GDDR5 memory running at 3.92GHz. Both cards have 256-bit bus memory, but thanks to the high frequency of GDDR5, the bandwidth is identical to that of 2GHz GDDR3 over a 512-bit bus.

Last we heard, RV770 has 480 shader processors, not 800, but there are also some stories going around that there might be some substance to the rumors of RV770 having 800 shader processors. Only 480 of them would be for the graphics though, while the remaining 320 is for physics. We can't confirm this so take it with a pinch of salt.

source

4850 625/2000
4870 725/3920

96v5 shaders = 480SP ??

We will see soon enough...

[STaRGaZeR]

8600 aws mid range back in 2006 or so. Byt hey, we are in 2008! Just like GeForce 9600 is mid range now, but not in 2010.

What? G80 was launched in November 2006 and R600 in May 2007 if I remember correctly. The so called mid-range cards of the new unified architecture from both ATI and NV were pure crap since the very beggining, I'm talking about HD2600 and 8600GT/GTS. In most of the cases worse perfomance than their predecessors. Don't you remember all those noobs buying 8600GT and HD2600XT to replace their 7600GT or 1950PRO because of marketing and/or DX10 and then realizing what a stupidity they did?

[Tienar]

Final specifications?
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2075

HD 4870 w/ 1 TFlop.

[ihatbs]

Final specifications?
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2075

HD 4870 w/ 1 TFlop.

The specifications of the HD4870 looks excellent except the memory interface which is 256bit. In addition, the price is good 349$

[w0mbat]

The specifications just look very, very wrong.

[ihatbs]

The specifications just look very, very wrong.

But not wrong when comparing to 9800gtx' specs & price

[whocaresbg]

The specifications just look very, very wrong.

Why ?

[Origin_Unknown]

4hgz memory on the 4870.... sign me up for two

[w0mbat]

Why ?

Because i say so!

[xlink]

What? G80 was launched in November 2006 and R600 in May 2007 if I remember correctly. The so called mid-range cards of the new unified architecture from both ATI and NV were pure crap since the very beggining, I'm talking about HD2600 and 8600GT/GTS. In most of the cases worse perfomance than their predecessors. Don't you remember all those noobs buying 8600GT and HD2600XT to replace their 7600GT or 1950PRO because of marketing and/or DX10 and then realizing what a stupidity they did?

9600s aren't so bad(overrated parts IMO but still not too bad)

[madcho]

Olly Olly, I'm confused now.
Planning to buy a 350$ high end card before the end of july and 350$ is my max
i'm sick of buying a mid-range card every year.

anyone knows about the start prices for the new cards (both ATI & NVIDIA)

AMD start is 180$ to 250$ or even 300$

nvidia is about 350$ to 500$.



AMD's GX2 is going to be 400-450$

[mascaras]

RV770XT fan gets pictured [FUD]


Dimensions, as well


The RV770XT and RV770PRO cards will have different coolers. This doesn’t come as a real surprise and it looks like the RV770XT will have a dual slot cooler and the RV770PRO cooler is significantly smaller, and the card is likely to be single slot.

What we can confirm now is that the RV770XT card cooler will have a 1.25 inch diameter, at least this is the diameter of the fan hole. The fan itself will add some more size to the whole fan component of the cooler, 1.25 inches translates to 3.175 cm.

The cooler will be 9.218 cm (3.629 inches) tall and the length from the front bracket to the center of the fan is 17.345 cm (6.828 inches). The whole fan itself will be a bit bigger than 20 cm and the card will be even bigger, but we don't have the right measurements.

We scored a picture of a fan with the new logo inside.





http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=7388&Itemid=1

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