Monday, November 10th 2008
RV770 Meets GDDR4, PowerColor Radeon HD4850 PCS+ D4 Planned
In an exhibition of pure technological flexibility by AMD, the RV770 graphics processor is going to be used along with GDDR4 memory, in PowerColor's newest Radeon HD 4850 PCS+ GDDR4 graphics card. The inclusion of GDDR4 memory is to boost the memory clock speeds and to provide room for a little more memory overclocking.
The PCS+ GDDR4 features a GPU cooler designed by ZEROtherm, which is advertised to keep the GPU up to 10 °C cooler than what the reference cooler would. It features heatsinks for the memory and the VRM area. It features 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 2.20 GHz, with the core clocked at 675 MHz. The card supports CrossFireX, and sports dual-DVI connectors. There is no word on its availability pricing as of now.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The PCS+ GDDR4 features a GPU cooler designed by ZEROtherm, which is advertised to keep the GPU up to 10 °C cooler than what the reference cooler would. It features heatsinks for the memory and the VRM area. It features 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 2.20 GHz, with the core clocked at 675 MHz. The card supports CrossFireX, and sports dual-DVI connectors. There is no word on its availability pricing as of now.
20 Comments on RV770 Meets GDDR4, PowerColor Radeon HD4850 PCS+ D4 Planned
wow, it might get you 3FPS on full settings., better go out and get it... amazing how they change a few things just to sell more product, great for them, but confuzes the buyers, in a market where there isn't much difference between most of the cards anyway..
i can't wait to see a review
Radeon 1950 XTX (GDDR4)
HD 2600 XT (GDDR4)
HD 3870
That PowerColor 3870X2 with the GDDR4
And that's it? Did I miss any?
Only five cards total ever made, that's if you count the weird non-reference 3870X2 that PowerColor came out with.
I'm pretty sure Powercolor did this to lower power usage a bit and to lower cost.
Since only the HD3870 is using GDDR4 at the moment and it's sales are slowing down, i guess Powercolor managed to strike a good deal.
Edit: let's not forget consumers that don't know what GDDR4 is, will think it's much faster. Good marketing too.
I bet it is, why let it go to waste if all we are using is GDDR5 right now.....