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ATI Releases Radeon HD 4890, Already Selling like Hotcakes

Posted 04/02/09 at 01:32:51 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Holy moly, what a day it's been in graphics cards. Nvidia and ATI are set to do battle in the mid-range market, the former with today's announcement of the GeForce GTX 275 videocard, and ATI with the launch of its HD 4890 videocard.

While Nvidia's announcement may have been intended to steal some thunder from ATI's HD 4890 launch, it hasn't seemed to make much of a difference. According to news site DailyTech, 50,000 Radeon HD 4980 videocards have already been shipped to retailers, many of which have been sold to end-users before today's launch. A quick glance at the Egg shows several models selling for $250, with mail-in-rebates bringing the price down another $20, including XFX, who recently defected as an Nvidia-only board partner to sell both ATI and Nvidia brand videocards.

Rumored specs turned out to be largely true for ATI's new part. The RV790-based 4890 comes with a core clockspeed of 850MHz, or 100MHz faster than the HD 4870. Other goodies include 1GB of GDDR5 clocked at 975MHz on a 256-bit bus, 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 16 ROPs, and a 190W rated maximum TDP (60W idle).

Anyone plan on upgrading?

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TAGS: amd, graphics, videocard, ati, gpu, radeon, hardware, build a pc, hd 4890
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avatari hope to get that this

Submitted by bingojubes on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 4:28pm

i hope to get that this week, latest would be before the summer break :)

i noticed Guru3d already has a review of the newest NVIDIA, which hopes to beat (and i think does in some of their tests). if you would like to check it out..

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-275-review-test/

 

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avatar4890!!!

Submitted by saywhut on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 3:35pm

Wow 4890 thats awesome! Anyone smell a 4890x2 soon? heh

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avatar4890

Submitted by sandman722 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 12:40pm

Wow a 4890 already? jeez...I remeber getting my 4870 when it came out, and I am amazed at its performance...GO ATI!!

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avatarSo unless there is two or more of them...

Submitted by QUINTIX256 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:37am

...(with redundant mirrored memory) it is a midrange card? I don't get it.

You can have your recession. I'm not participating.

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avatarhmmm

Submitted by devin3627 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:51am

that kind of makes sense. notice how all of nvidia's best cards have (effect) stated by their memory clockspeeds on newegg?

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avatarI hate ATI's catalys

Submitted by AntiHero on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:29am

I hate ATI's catalys drivers, for many reasons, however i'm even considering one (or two) of these.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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avatardirectx 11

Submitted by devin3627 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:09am

i think i'll wait for directx 11 because assassins creed had a 20% performance with antialiasing with directx 10.1 but hey.... why not? this card looks soooooo good.

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avatarI'm probably going to

Submitted by Zefir on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:43am

I'm probably going to upgrade. I only have an HD 3850 right now, and the price on this thing isn't bad at all.

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