HD 4850 Previews

[onewingedangel]

Not sure if it's been posted yet but newegg now has 4850s

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...%2f270x120.gif

Guess worrying about anything NDA related is moot.

Since HD4850's are avaliable in stores we were allowed to release performance numbers and talk about retail packages, but we're still bound by the NDA not to release architecture details or clock speeds (despite that information being readily avaliable to the public).

The reason for the NDA being partially nullified is that some retailers started selling the cards earlier than they should have, which caused others to do the same in reaction. With the card then being on sale some sites decided that the NDA could not hold up and posted their information.

After speaking to AMD we were told we could release certain pieces of information and not others. Wanting to maintain our good relationship with the company we are abiding by their wishes no matter how we might disagree. Come tuesday we will be unbound from the NDA and the floodgates will open properly

are you going to use a better mb (p35) for crossfire

sorry just found the 2nd system

We will be using the 680i for SLI and x48 for crossfire numbers.

[snipper_cr]

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After speaking to AMD we were told we could release certain pieces of information and not others. Wanting to maintain our good relationship with the company we are abiding by their wishes no matter how we might disagree. Come tuesday we will be unbound from the NDA and the floodgates will open properly
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Well with the card being released, it seems the floodgates have already opened! At least, anyone NOT bound by NDA can speak!

[DarkDisciple]

After speaking to AMD we were told we could release certain pieces of information and not others. Wanting to maintain our good relationship with the company we are abiding by their wishes no matter how we might disagree. Come tuesday we will be unbound from the NDA and the floodgates will open properly

Can you tell us if there will be more than one amount of standard memory on the 4870, or if they will all either be 512 or 1GB.

Also, if they all only come with 512 standard, is it really realistic to double that after market?

+10

Many people are forgetting we are talking about a $199 card. In which, 8 months from now, will be considered budget!

I wish CF was a little less flaky, or I would just get two 4850s and not worry about all this waiting!

[onewingedangel]

Can you tell us if there will be more than one amount of standard memory on the 4870, or if they will all either be 512 or 1GB.

The cards we've recieved for testing feature 512MB but partners are of course free to customise as they see fit.

But GDDR5 isn't cheap and there's a limited choice of modules, so personally I wouldn't expect 1GB HD4870's for a good while - 1GB HD4850's are far more likely using already avaliable high capacity GDDR3 modules.

[Dragy2k]

The cards we've recieved for testing feature 512MB but partners are of course free to customise as they see fit.

But GDDR5 isn't cheap and there's a limited choice of modules, so personally I wouldn't expect 1GB HD4870's for a good while - 1GB HD4850's are far more likely using already avaliable high capacity GDDR3 modules.

will the extra 512 on the 1gb models(4870's) make much difference.....or should we hold on till theres enough stock of 1gb models......