ATI HD 4850 GDDR4

I've been seeing at newegg a GDDR4 version of the HD 4850. Does anyone have a site where they have a benchmark comparison for GDDR3 and GDDR4. I would like to know if it is worth the extra 15 dollars to get GDDR4 instead. Thanks in advance!

i doubt it would make a difference. the 3870's had GDDR4 and it didn't help it beat the 8800GT.

the HD4670 is a 128bit card anyway. Adding GDD4 memory to that card is pure marketing on the part of the vendor.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814140098

Newegg has the product. It may be a marketing thing, but I am wanting to see benchmarks. It's like what romulus47plus said, it could be in between. Check out the specs and see if it is worth it. I wouldn't mind spending a little extra for inbetween.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 50-perform

Looks like there's nothing impressive with DDR4, nothing noticeable between ddr3 and 4 or something.

Hmm...I see your point, but you have to look at the actual memory clock speeds, not just the type of memory. This card with the GDDR4 is only 2000MHz. The GDDR3 version's speed is 1800MHz. The GDDR5 is clocked at 3600MHz. So, going by memory clock speeds only, an increase of about 10% is theoretically possible. However, keep in mind that the 4870's core speed is exactly 20% more than the 4850's (750MHz vs. 625MHz.) So really, for the most part, the GDDR5 memory does nothing for the 4870. I guess maybe its higher latencies offset its increase in raw clock speed, maybe?

To sum it all up, I'd say that the GDDR4 would do very little for the 4850. Maybe 5% extra performance at the very most. It might lower the power consumption as well, since I seem to remember reading that GDDR4 eats up less power then GDDR3.