They are in essence lower binned 4870 chips and the top chips will probably go to the 4870X2 in the hopes of keeping power consumption in check on that one. That's my guess though but I can't be too far off as this is also basically what NVIDIA does for their G92 chips and it's probably the wisest thing to do.
BTW, I still have no confirmation on whether PowerPlay is currently working on the 4850. AMD is saying that this is the 2nd generation PowerPlay for the desktop, and 5th for the laptop, so this could mean that drivers for that are not finalized yet. Could anyone confirm this? I remember w0mbat having said so once, but I can't remember where and when. (and my memory isn't all too stellar
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Originally Posted by Helmore
They are in essence lower binned 4870 chips and the top chips will probably go to the 4870X2 in the hopes of keeping power consumption in check on that one. That's my guess though but I can't be too far off as this is also basically what NVIDIA does for their G92 chips and it's probably the wisest thing to do.
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