Saturday, February 14th 2009
AMD Preparing Radeon HD 4890, Slated for April
AMD has been working the ATI RV790 GPU for a while now. It appears to be like it will take a little longer for the company to release an SKU based on it. Contradicting earlier reports, it is known that the RV790-based SKUs stay within the Radeon HD 4800 series, and not form the HD 4900 series.
The flagship single-GPU product based on the RV790 is to be called Radeon HD 4890. Samples based on the RV790XT A11 are currently running at speeds of 850/975 MHz (core/memory). AMD is reportedly telling its partners that the RV790XT is expected to be around 20% faster than the RV770XT (HD 4870), and has NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285 in its sights, for head-on competition. Additionally, AMD may force NVIDIA to reconsider its pricing, since the RV790XT is expected to be priced between US$199 to US$249, up to $150 cheaper than the GeForce GTX 285 in its current pricing. Unfortunately, one has to wait till April.
Source:
VR-Zone
The flagship single-GPU product based on the RV790 is to be called Radeon HD 4890. Samples based on the RV790XT A11 are currently running at speeds of 850/975 MHz (core/memory). AMD is reportedly telling its partners that the RV790XT is expected to be around 20% faster than the RV770XT (HD 4870), and has NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285 in its sights, for head-on competition. Additionally, AMD may force NVIDIA to reconsider its pricing, since the RV790XT is expected to be priced between US$199 to US$249, up to $150 cheaper than the GeForce GTX 285 in its current pricing. Unfortunately, one has to wait till April.
42 Comments on AMD Preparing Radeon HD 4890, Slated for April
FordGT90Concept does a happy dance.
Edit: Oh crap, is that the OEM price for just the GPU or the MSRP of the cards? :confused:
FordGT90Concept resumes the happy dance. :D
And R600 was 512bit, as btarunr said.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161269
Of course ATI could do a price cut on the 1GB models and sell them off the market before the new one. Then bring the new one with $225 and leave the 512MB version for lower price point.
OT-Its quad pumped @ 256bit... plenty of bandwidth... when the time calls for it... up it to 512bit but until then... its fine.
and some unlocked ROPs/Shaders
Think about what the Nvidia partenrs do now , they probably kick Nvidia to hell for this because how much they need to cut into their profits and with the economy problems and all , i think more Nvidia parteners will switch.
No wonder XFX sells ATI cards now.
Now this doesn't mean Nvidia cards sucks , they are just a bit pricey but supremacy in most games is held by Nvidia , for now.
Is this a viable representation of how the 4890 would perform ?