Gainward drops Nvidia exclusivity and preps Radeon HD 4800 cards

[Azza]

Palit-owned Gainward has decided that monogamy isn't all that great and a little ménage à trois would be a lot nicer and more profitable. As a result, the company has now announced that it will be adding a couple of RV770 cards to its product line-up. Leaving Nvidia exclusivity to rot in the desert, Gainward revealed its own Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 cards, both of which you can see below.

All red and lovely, the cards are based on AMD/ATI's reference design and thus feature stock cooling system and clocks. The Radeon HD 4850 has 512MB of GDDR3 memory set to 1986 MHz, 800 Stream Processors and a GPU clocked at 625 MHz while the HD 4870 can say it's equipped with 3600 MHz-clocked 512MB of GDDR5 memory and a GPU with a frequency of 750 MHz.

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[jrodga2k5]

Even Gainward know where its at

 

[Hamoodii]

They've acknowledged the fact that theres money to be made with ATi then.

 

[FrenchTart]

It's a shame Gainward suck

(My 8800GTS640 is a Gainward card. Just check out the gainward site's warranty requirements: http://www.gainward.com/support/support_uk_warrranty.htm)

 

[Azza]

That is basically what everone elses warranty is like you know.

 

[MystaEB]

Awesome. I've always liked Gainward. Great aftermarket coolers and their overclocked versions of cards are always great.

4870 Golden Sample? Yes please!

 

[FrenchTart]

That is basically what everone elses warranty is like you know.

It's not so much their requirements but the attitude really. And my previous experiences with Gainward (admittedly back in the geforce4ti days) RMA was pretty awful.

 

[theforce]

Had a Gainward GForce 3 back then and it had no problems with them. Well it's always better to have more cards to choose from.

 

[maddness]

nice, they'll probably come with unique funky coolers, but i doubt they will be cheap though

 

[londonbairn]

This really signals a strategy shift in the world of graphic cards (and CPUs really) for the better. Miles better for the consumer, why should we pay £400 every cycle, and for the companies, why produce £400 cards when you can produce £120 cards and vastly outsell those £400 cards?

Profit comes in huge quantities even with low margins. Dell are a great example of this.

 

[Jakus]

Gainward was always my first choice....Very good ideas and products