Quote Originally Posted by SNiiPE_DoGG View Post
4890 center resistors: 4x11
4870 center resistors: 6x12

that said the entire resistor arrangement outside the center of the GPU area is %100 different between the 4870 and 4890. I find it hard to believe all that change is for power consumption alone....
Quote Originally Posted by SNiiPE_DoGG View Post
well purely area wise (resistors behind the gpu) there is a really significant size difference...

the 4890 is 44 units and the 4870 is 72units

.72(ratio 40:55nm) --> .61(ratio 4890:4870)

Considering the backside of a HD4850 looks nothing like HD4870's it is safe to declare those CAPACITORS and their oh so suspicious alignment, shady layout and undeably far-fetched relation to process size mean absolutely nothing.