4890's at newegg

Wow ...as promised...

If its within the 5% shown on early reviews it does. Not enough a lead for 100$ premium, more like 40-50$

There are quite a few at $250. Its nice to see some options that are (currently) under the $260 quoted price. Now where are the reviews, I need them to prove to a couple of people that I was right...

The reviews that I have seen for the 2GB version of the 4850x2 show it generally outpacing the gtx 285. Since the 4890 can not out perform the 285 then it is slower than the 4850x2.

The more that I think about it, the more it seems like the 4890 should be an outright replacement for the 4870 rather than an addition.

They should stop producing the 4870s then drop the 4890 price down.

Tom has already benched it (with beta drivers though).

Well heads up...both 4890 and 275 review is up on Toms home page...

Firingsquad has a pretty good article too. They have overclocking and comparisons with the following cards.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 216-shader
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
ATI Radeon 4890 1GB
ATI Radeon 4890 1GB/CF
ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/at [...] e_gtx_275/

the gtx 275 out paces the gtx 280 in some tests, mostly under 1920*1200 though.. impressive nonetheless

i still won't pay 50% more for a 10% performance increase.

From all the reviews, it seems as if it eeks past the 275 in performance, and seems to even exchange blows with the 285, up to 1920x1200. Wicked. Since I sent my other 4870 that I was using for crossfire back, I think I'll get this. Love that you can OC it past 1ghz, even MILD ocs on the 4870 showed great performance increases, memory...not so much since it already has a huge bandwidth, core OC is where it's at.

On topic of the 4870 2GB, from what I saw it did virtually nothing...apparently it has all the memory it needs at 1GB, the core-clock increases are what show a huge difference if you look at the OC marks, the 4870 1GB oced to 800mhz, is right on par with the 4870 2GB at 800 mhz, so it's all about the core, there was maybe give or take, a 1-2 fps difference, not worth it IMO. I guess it's no different than when you look at benchmarks with crossfired 1gb 4870s, and a 4870x2 with 2gb, crossfireing 4870s, does not make increase it to 2gb, it is still 1gb, yet the 4870 crossfired, running at 1gb, beat out the 4870x2. So I don't think memory is a big factor here.

And there's no way that Sapphire 4870 can OC as much as the 4890, way to many improvements on the 4890, as even they say. Plenty of people are hitting 1GHZ with stock cooling, I wouldn't dare try that on a 4870, even with aftermarket cooling. I even underestimated this card thinking it was just a highly over-clocked 4870, but they replaced the PCB, and made loads of changes that drastically improved the card. Props to ATI, they went on a build that was solid and proven, and made it even better.

They aren't making a 4890x2... and if you don't think the fact that the 4890 exchanges blows with the Geforce 285 is pretty impressive, which is priced HIGH above it...I don't know what to tell you.

The power consumption would be astronomical!

This is sad.....the GTX 285 isnt out-performing the 4890 or GTX 275 like it should be for its price.....