Thursday, July 10th 2008
Pictures of the Non-Reference 2GB Radeon HD 4850 Emerge
The Radeon HD 4850 has been in for a while and boy, did it change the face of the market as we knew it. PowerColor / TUL came up with the first non-reference design for the HD 4850, it sticks to the AMD reference PCB alebit changes to the cooler and the memory. It uses ZeroTherm full copper GPU cooler with CVVT technology(Continue Variable Velocity Timing). The card now features a mammoth 2 GB of GDDR3 memory. There are minor changes to the GPU parameters as well: 665 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory.
We could have understood if they gave it 1 GB of memory, knowing that the RV770 is a capable GPU and might be able to use higher amount of memory but 2 GB seems too much. The card is loaded with 16 x 1 Gb GDDR3 chips. The chips on the other side of the PCB have a heatspreader. There's no information about availablilty and pricing yet.
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We could have understood if they gave it 1 GB of memory, knowing that the RV770 is a capable GPU and might be able to use higher amount of memory but 2 GB seems too much. The card is loaded with 16 x 1 Gb GDDR3 chips. The chips on the other side of the PCB have a heatspreader. There's no information about availablilty and pricing yet.
22 Comments on Pictures of the Non-Reference 2GB Radeon HD 4850 Emerge
That is not the reference PCB FYI, its only got two phases; one phase on each side of that heatsink. Its inferior to the reference one afaik, with only two phases instead of the four that is found on the normal HD4850.
(and I only use crysis as an example. I can't even think of any other game that would potentially do something like that, much less fill up ONE gb of vram...)
K
Does the 4850 really need 2gb?
Don't recall if it was nVidia or ATI cards, though.
www.techpowerup.com/54186/MSI_Prepares_2GB_Version_of_GeForce_9600_GT.html