AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

Azza · 15 May 2008 at 16:30

AMD has just confirmed the marketing name for RV770 yesterday which is no surprise to anyone, the Radeon HD 4800 series. RV770PRO is Radeon HD 4850, RV770XT is Radeon HD 4870 and R700 is Radeon HD 4870 X2. AMD will be shipping RV770 GPUs to AIB by end of this month and you can expect different card designs from the manufacturers at launch. AMD is set to launch the Radeon HD 4850 on June 18th and it is definitely a hard one with retail availability on the same day. Radeon HD 4870, however, will be launched a week later on June 25th with retail availability in July due to GDDR5 availability. Radeon HD 4870 X2 will come later in Q3. As for the clocks, we won't be revealing them yet but the RV770XT core clock is not going anywhere above 800MHz.

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Devious · 15 May 2008 at 16:56

Coolio, nice info !

steve258 · 15 May 2008 at 16:58

Watching this with great interest.

Devious · 15 May 2008 at 18:03

and we will see the GT200 before then ?

Tute · 15 May 2008 at 18:17

Devious said:
and we will see the GT200 before then ?

It looks like GT200 will arrive just before.

Phatzy · 15 May 2008 at 18:22

cool and the true prices?

3t3P · 15 May 2008 at 18:24

Lightnix · 15 May 2008 at 18:32

It's a bit disappointing that we won't be seeing a May release like rumoured before hand... Let's just hope the next release date doesn't suddenly become September.

Schnippzle · 15 May 2008 at 18:35

Cheers

Steedie · 15 May 2008 at 18:47

GT200 is due before?

Didn't know that, thought it was July time

Excellent, finally can upgrade something in my system lol, my 8800GTX has been in there far too long

. Can't wait for the benchmarks to see which one to choose from

Blackout · 15 May 2008 at 19:41

Yup looking forward with interest at this next batch of cards.

classicVin · 15 May 2008 at 19:46

gonna be awsome !

Skyboat · 15 May 2008 at 19:58

nVidia are rumoured to release GT200 on June 18th too :confused:

Monkeynut · 15 May 2008 at 20:29

We need the good old "destruction" names...

ATi Radeon 4870 X2 extreme CARNAGE!

skunksta · 15 May 2008 at 20:36

Will be nice to see some real bench marks guess after they ship to the manufacturers a few will slip out for testing.As said lets hope both NV and ATI dont push them back more.4850 first also is a nice marketing tool how many will rush to buy new tech just to upgrade to the 4870 or crossfire it with a x2 or the 4870.

-iceblade^ · 15 May 2008 at 20:41

i like

. i hope the X2 comes out in early Q3, though

sir-les-mp · 15 May 2008 at 21:00

Well i think i'll wait till they do come out to see price's and benchmarks
was considering upgrading to an ATi 3870 x2 as it seems to be the best performer between it and the 9800 GX2

SS-89 · 15 May 2008 at 21:15

RV770XT core clock is not going anywhere above 800MHz

I find that a bit hard to believe considering the 3870xt's are stock 775Mhz, I would have thought there would been a bit more of a clock bump.

Alexrose1uk · 15 May 2008 at 21:27

Given its a revamped core, with apparent aa improvements and serious shader etc boosts, perhaps they consider the current clock speeds enough, and are reserving higher clock speeds for later cards ie XTX etc, will have to wait and see if numbers/figures translate to performance though

jaykay · 15 May 2008 at 21:33

SS-89 said:
I find that a bit hard to believe considering the 3870xt's are stock 775Mhz, I would have thought there would been a bit more of a clock bump.

Well, i think ATI have gone down Nvidias route and have different clocks for shaders and cores. So i think 800mhz core won't be that bad actually.