Quote Originally Posted by mascaras View Post
The Radeon HD 4850 will apparently feature 480 stream processors, a 625MHz core speed, an 825MHz shader speed, 512MB of 1143MHz GDDR3 memory, and a 114W thermal envelope. The faster Radeon HD 4870 will also have 480 SPs, but with an 850MHz core speed, 1050MHz shader speed, 1GB of 1935MHz (3870MHz "effective") GDDR5 RAM, and a 157W TDP. Both cards will also feature 256-bit memory buses and 16 raster operators, just like existing Radeon HD 3800-series models, but with twice as many texture mapping units (32 instead of 16).
WTF! separate shader domain? this is going to change ATI Overclocking for good, this will also mostlikely closen the gap with all those Nvidia optimised games...and prolly allow ATI to emulate PhysX whith all those extra shader operations.