Tuesday, March 17th 2009
Sapphire HD 4890 Begins Getting Listed
Weeks ahead of launch, Sapphire's Radeon HD 4890 graphics accelerator has already started to to get listed on online stores, not concentrated in a particular region. The HD 4890 is characterized by the upcoming RV790 graphics processor, it is a current-generation successor to the HD 4870 accelerator. Its specifications are unclear, though most sources in the industry and press have so far revealed it not to be much of a featureset expansion over the RV770.
Dutch retailer Salland Automatisering BV has listed the Sapphire-made accelerator for € 253.95 inclusive of VAT (€ 218.95 excluding it). Another retailer, PB Technologies Auckland (New Zealand), has listed it for NZ $613.97 (325 USD), including applicable taxes. The Dutch retailer went on to list some of the card's specifications. It features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.90 GHz (975 MHz actual). Its core is clocked at 850 MHz. No pictures, or information about the GPU's internals (such as stream processor count, TMU/ROP counts) were provided. Both retailers have put the product on pre-order. AMD is expected to release the card on April 8, 2009.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
Dutch retailer Salland Automatisering BV has listed the Sapphire-made accelerator for € 253.95 inclusive of VAT (€ 218.95 excluding it). Another retailer, PB Technologies Auckland (New Zealand), has listed it for NZ $613.97 (325 USD), including applicable taxes. The Dutch retailer went on to list some of the card's specifications. It features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.90 GHz (975 MHz actual). Its core is clocked at 850 MHz. No pictures, or information about the GPU's internals (such as stream processor count, TMU/ROP counts) were provided. Both retailers have put the product on pre-order. AMD is expected to release the card on April 8, 2009.
28 Comments on Sapphire HD 4890 Begins Getting Listed
"330 New Zealand dollars = 124.363481 British pounds"
My 3870 is still at £117 on Ebuyer!
www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=13257
price 258.90 € (incl. vat)
:toast:
His son gives him a hand every morning....DDR SDRAM
They subscribe to Playboy and get a thing to grow some muscles (get stonger), both carry two sacks flour each....GDDR5
In USD, adjusted, that's in the $229.99-249.99 range. These early store-posted prices are nothing to base anything on, as we all know, because shops that break the NDA have artificially high prices. They do it to drive attention, and early (pre)sales. This is not to say our non-stateside friends will not get screwed, as it seems they always do.
The $219 price makes sense (see the original prices of the 3870/3850 when they launched, and substitute the 4870 1gb for the 3850...Priced similar yeah?) but nvidia is being VERY aggressive with the gtx260 216. You see those around for as low as $175, $160 after MIR. I expect it to be 10-20% faster (at 950mhz), but oofta!
I wonder how AMD will tackle that conundrum. No matter what they do it will be the best bang-for-buck in the range (faster than a 260 216, a lot cheaper than a 280/285), but I wonder if they will milk it and make mad profit (unlike nvidia) or they will aim for marketshare against the 260 with a lower price tag for it, and perhaps the 4870 1gb. I reckon we see rebates or something knocking it down to around $200 PDQ. If such happens, nvidia and all their GT200/GT205 would be totally fooked with their giant ass chips. As it sits now though, the 260 is a pretty smoking deal.