Gainward 4850 + GDDR5

There is almost no difference from a 4850 armed with GDDR5 then a regular 4870?

I highly doubt the price would be much lower than the 4870.
Depending on how hot it runs will make me decide whether or not to get it.

Just a thought on this: By the time they get this out on the market, wouldn't the 4890 already be out? The 4890 should make the prices drop even lower on the 4870, and the 4850. So why wait for this card when it will most likely be the same performance and price of the 4870 by the time it comes out?

Seems pretty pointless to me.

4850's also have a lower clock.

It wont be as fast as a 4870 but the upgrade from gddr3 to gddr5 isn't cheap either.

It should sit in between both in price, closer to the 4870 while performing close to a 260gtx 192 core probably.

Its already at 700 on the core, so ocing wouldnt be required

My mistake, I never did look at a stock 4850 lol

Is that even an actual retailer?


Since they don't even list it as a product on their website means 1 of 3 things.

1. They could have run out of them and taken it off the website.

or

2. The card does not exist and it was just a rumor.

or

3. They took defective 4870s that could not handle high clock speeds and sold them off as a 4850 with DDR5 memory

I'm leaning towards 3.....how about you?

So all this is, is a underclocked 4870 marked as a 4850. Odd.

lol

Alright well, lets just wait and see how it does. Who knows, it could always just blow us out of the water (price/performance-wise). I would like to see some benchmarks on that Palit 4850 with DDR5 memory, that way it will give us a rough estimate of where this card's performance will be. Of course we can assume that the price will be in between the 4870 and the 4850, but the performance will decide whether you should get a 4870 or just go back to the 4850.