ATI Releases Radeon HD 4890, Already Selling like Hotcakes
ATI Releases Radeon HD 4890, Already Selling like Hotcakes
Posted 04/02/2009 at 10:32am
| 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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bingojubes
April 06, 2009 at 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/
sandman722
April 02, 2009 at 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!!
QUINTIX256
April 02, 2009 at 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.
devin3627
April 02, 2009 at 11:51am
that kind of makes sense. notice how all of nvidia's best cards have (effect) stated by their memory clockspeeds on newegg?
AntiHero
April 02, 2009 at 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.
devin3627
April 02, 2009 at 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.
Zefir
April 02, 2009 at 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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