AMD Expected to Launch Radeon HD 4890 Card Next Week
"With the launch of AMD's new GPU on the horizon, some retailers haven't been able to resist running a few benchmarks of their own."
Published: 26th March 2009 | Source: Novatech |
AMD Expected to Launch Radeon HD 4890 Card Next Week
Discussions about the much-awaited AMD Radeon HD 4890 card have been going around the internet for some time now. The official launch date, as announced by the company is April 2nd, much sooner than originally expected.The new launch date is surprising considering rumours that the card is already being sold by retailers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Expected to be priced at £230, the AMD Radeon HD 4890 is also believed to be in stock with a number of retailers, including Novatech. The latter has presumably benchmarked the new card against an AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, with results available on Novatech forum.
The new card, which Novatech forum administrator GIBBO describes only as a “mysterious card”, is miles ahead of the HD 4870. In the tests, the system featuring the new card scored 3.5 per cent higher in terms of 3DMarks than a system running the Radeon HD 4870 512MB. In GPU performance too, the new card clocked 12 per cent faster than the 4870; when overclocked, the speed gap increased to a whopping 30 per cent.
If this mysterious card is the Radeon HD 4890, it would be AMD’s fastest ever single-GPU part. With NVIDIA also expected to launch its GeForce GTX 275 early in April, the next week could be an interesting one featuring yet another showdown between the two graphics card heavyweights.
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I'd not take too much notice of any showdown between the 2 as one is clearly intended to be the 3rd orso from the top end from the one manufacturer in terms of single gpu cards, where as the other is meant to be their top end single gpu. The target markets would be different.
U can argue cost, but I think we need to appreciate that increasingly the one camp doesn't reflect too much on what the other tag their cards at. The user can bear the reflection for sure, that would be their choice of which camp they'd prefer over the other whilst taking the price into consideration.
But I will say this on behalf of all gaming and enthusiasts out there, if I may be so bold, to BOTH card camps --- 3.5% woohoo !! If I had 100 fps, I'll now get 103.5 !!! Fantastic !! (on artificial benching too)
U can argue cost, but I think we need to appreciate that increasingly the one camp doesn't reflect too much on what the other tag their cards at. The user can bear the reflection for sure, that would be their choice of which camp they'd prefer over the other whilst taking the price into consideration.
But I will say this on behalf of all gaming and enthusiasts out there, if I may be so bold, to BOTH card camps --- 3.5% woohoo !! If I had 100 fps, I'll now get 103.5 !!! Fantastic !! (on artificial benching too)
3.5% woohoo !! If i had 100 fps, i'll now get 103.5 !!! Fantastic !! (on artificial benching too)
qftmfw.
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