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ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 specs leaked?

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On April 23, 2008, 12:55 PM EST

AMD’s next-generation RV770 graphics processor was initially expected to debut around late June, but if recent reports are to be believed, the company’s graphics division is running ahead of deadlines and set to launch their Radeon HD 4000-series graphics cards in the next few weeks.

German tech site Hardware-Infos has apparently gotten hold of some leaked specs, launch schedules, and prices for three cards in the upcoming Radeon HD 4000-series GPUs, and has published them online for all to see. Starting at the high-end, the Radeon HD 4870 ($349) will reportedly feature 480 stream processors – rather than the 320 found in the 3850 and 3870 – an 850MHz core speed, 1GB of 1935MHz GDDR5 RAM, and a 256-bit memory interface.

The Radeon HD 4850 ($269) will share almost the same specs as its higher-end counterpart, except it comes with 512MB of RAM and has lower core and memory speeds of 650MHz and 1728MHz. Meanwhile, on the lower-end, a GDDR3 version of the 4850 is also claimed to be in the works with a memory clock of 571.5MHz.

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nirkon
on April 23, 2008
1:19 PM
Another product LEAKED?... Ha.. I don't buy it...every single about-to-debut ATI card is "leaked"...give me a break this is just ATI's way of releasing products...

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FoReWoRd
on April 23, 2008
1:20 PM
Nvidia rocks

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fullmetalvegan
on April 24, 2008
8:24 AM
haha, word. NVIDIA forever. =Pthough i'm intersted to see how the new ATi do, but still, they won't ever be as good as NVIDIA products.

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9Nails
on April 24, 2008
8:58 PM
With water cooling starting to become more common; and also available in some servers; product "leaks" take on a whole new meaning!

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hellokitty[hk]
on April 28, 2008
11:19 PM
Hmm...The core clock is about the same as the existing 3870X2 cards except the memory...I wonder if they really are next generation and not just a blow off of the existing chip with better mememory. I really do hope they come up with something amazing!

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