ATI Partially Launches Radeon HD4800 Series
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It seems to be getting more and more impossible for etailers and similar partners to hold their fire: After some Radeon HD 4850 cards, which are officially launching later this month, had appeared on Amazon.com, AMD has decided to drop the embargo on benchmark numbers and product photos of the mainstream card.
Techpowerup posted news from AMD’s Jon Carvill, clearly saying that AMD decided to lift the embargo on the new cards. However, the change of course does not affect Radeon HD4870, which is expected to come with GDDR5 memory, and it also does not include publication of technical details.
Sometimes a hard launch can have its disadvantages if cards become available too early.
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I look forward for a passive cooled 4850!
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/724-1/preview-ati-radeon-hd-4850.html
I am curious to see what the benchmarks for the 4870 will turn out. The best part of all of this, competition at last.
Did the 7800 not work with vista? Please explain or pm info.
The big GIANT step is made with AA filter, that was an issue in general for the Radeon 2000 and 3000 series. With this filter it sometime pass or equal the GTX 260, and in general it score higher or same as the 9800 GTX.
They underline the fact that in the average, it score a bit higher with Antialiazing than the 3870X2, and 18% more than the 9800GTX (the graph at page 8 is an average made of every games)
They also tell that the card is as silent as a 3850, as the cooler is almost the same (all the cards released yet are "referance" cards, the companies only put their sticker over the AMD ones)
They say that at this price (around 159 euro) no Nvidia cards can compete with it, as the nearest (th 9800GTX) sells around 220euro and often more.
While I admire the 'radical' idea of having products at launch (cough, K10, cough 38XX series); a hard launch would include all the products (4870), they are launching.
That said, ror the money, the 4850 does look like a good card though!