AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

[shaffaaf27]

with a few more driver updates for the 4850 (and probably 2 more in the life of the GTX280 ) i think we have a winner (the 9800PRO , 4850)

 

[mrk]

What the hell is

wtflmaonade


Lightnix?

 

[Azza]

LOL, thanks for that mrk.

 

[Tute]

ROFL!

 

[Deleted User 234324]

The Witcher looks horribly broken in CF mode, no difference at all.

 

[Uriel]

3850 Crossfire appears to utterly own all the 360 ports.

 

[Azza]

The Witcher sucks aswell so who cares about that game.

 

[queamin]

At least he could have used Catalyst 8.6 and not Catalyst 8.5, as i am thinking 8.6 are out?.

 

[muon]

Wow, at the anandtech review. The 4850 obliterates the 9800gtx. However, these are at very high settings which as we already know the 4850 performs very well at.

 

[Tute]

Wow, at the anandtech review. The 4850 obliterates the 9800gtx. However, these are at very high settings which as we already know the 4850 performs very well at.

Makes you wonder what would have happened if it had shipped with faster memory. It only seems to lose it's lead when memory bandwidth comes into play.

 

[Lightnix]

Makes you wonder what would have happened if it had shipped with faster memory. It only seems to lose it's lead when memory bandwidth comes into play.

But that's what we're getting the 4870 for.

Well, AMD has to separate their SKUs somehow.

 

[queamin]

But that's what we're getting the 4870 for.

Well, AMD has to separate their SKUs somehow.

I just hope the first batch of 4870's have gddr5 and not gddr3

 

[marc2003]

blimey i wasn't expecting this much oomph from the 4850. i just hope the supplies are good next weekend when i've got some cash to spend.

 

[titaniumx3]

I think it's high time we get some image quality comparision shots out, those COD4 and ET:QW benches are just unbelievable when compared to the HD 3870.

 

[Azza]

GDDR3 im afraid gueamin.


Well from OcUK any way...


Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR3


HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR3


Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR3

 

[Lightnix]

We probably won't see decent volumes of the GDDR5 cards 'till July. Oh well... I wouldn't mind so much but the wait to know the figures is killing me!

 

[marc2003]

all you guys planning crossfire, i hope your psus are upto it....

With two 4850s paired up in CrossFire, we once again ran into issues with our power supply. Our 1000W OCZ EliteXStream wasn't always enough for the dual-GPU setup and in Call of Duty 4 our system rebooted in the middle of our test at 2560 x 1600. Thankfully OCZ sent us a PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W unit that is certified for use with GeForce GTX 280 SLI, and if it works on that beast, it had better work with a pair of 4850s in CrossFire.

The PCP&C unit is quite loud as we mentioned in our review, but it got the job done, we were able to run all of our benchmarks without a hiccup after swapping power supplies. Despite AMD's small-GPU strategy, power consumption on multi-GPU configurations is still just as much of a problem as it is for NVIDIA.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Meh, not really big on OcUK titles, there's always some that are wrong... We'll see what comes out when they're released. You can pretty much guarantee that most will wait for the DDR5 version.

 

[Azza]

All cards on Newegg in the US are $199.99.

Diamond, Asus, MSI, Power Color, Gigabyte, HIS, Sapphire and VisionTek brands are listed on there.

 

[Greebo]

Is it worth putting my Gecube 3870 pre-overclocked (same price as a standard 1 and it sells) on the bay now, then dive into a 4850/4870 after my holiday??

Only downside is that my spare is an x300

Not if your mobo is xfire. Keep the 3870 and xfire it with the 4850/70