Friday, January 30th 2009
RV790 Makes Radeon HD 4900 Series, Led by HD 4995 X2?
After RV740, the next AMD venture on the 40nm silicon process will be the company's next flagship GPU: the RV790. With this core AMD hopes to reclaim the performance and value crowns, more importantly, energy efficiency the newer fab process hopes to bring to the current-generation GPU.
Quite obviously, AMD will assign new SKUs to the products based on the RV790. The safest guess would be the formation of a new sub-series under Radeon 4000, the Radeon HD 4900 series. German website ATi Forum has learned that indeed AMD planning on a new sub-series based on the new GPU, following scoops on RV740 making the Radeon HD 4700 series. Once again, AMD might create two products based on a single GPU and one flagship dual-GPU accelerator, to begin with. The company's lackluster optimism in the R700 Pro (Radeon HD 4850 X2), has shown on the upcoming series with no mention of a second-inline dual GPU accelerator. In ATi Forum's theory, the RV790XT gets HD 4970, RV790Pro gets HD 4950 and the dual-GPU flagship SKU could be named Radeon HD 4995 X2. Talk about competitive naming.
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ATi Forum
Quite obviously, AMD will assign new SKUs to the products based on the RV790. The safest guess would be the formation of a new sub-series under Radeon 4000, the Radeon HD 4900 series. German website ATi Forum has learned that indeed AMD planning on a new sub-series based on the new GPU, following scoops on RV740 making the Radeon HD 4700 series. Once again, AMD might create two products based on a single GPU and one flagship dual-GPU accelerator, to begin with. The company's lackluster optimism in the R700 Pro (Radeon HD 4850 X2), has shown on the upcoming series with no mention of a second-inline dual GPU accelerator. In ATi Forum's theory, the RV790XT gets HD 4970, RV790Pro gets HD 4950 and the dual-GPU flagship SKU could be named Radeon HD 4995 X2. Talk about competitive naming.
54 Comments on RV790 Makes Radeon HD 4900 Series, Led by HD 4995 X2?
...or this Radeon 4900 will beat a 295?!!! :rockout:
So will I buy one of this cards as well?
Hell yeah, you can bet on it.
But i don't like AMD and their naming schemes lately... blatantly following either intel or nvidia. I mean come on, be original
EDIT I was kinda hoping the new GPUs would keep the 4700 name like 4790 and 4790x2 or 4795 and 4795x2. so I could crossfire with my 4870x2.
Personally, I have to say that the 4850X2 was a joke and a waste of money and architecture to make.
EDIT: Castiel is dead on, drivers are by far the weakest point of the ATI cards - just look how good the cards perform in games where the drivers work as they should.
X1800XT, X1900XT, X1950XTX, etc.
But I think this 4900 cards will be good, and should be better then NVs 55nm GTX200 cards.
But we all know the GT212 is coming as well, 40nm 300+sp DDR5, damn I realy hope ATI has low prices, this will make my cost less on the GT212.