AMD's Radeon 4000 Series Coming in May?

Posted By: Michael Thomas - 09:24:32 Wed, April 23, 2008

A couple of sites have specifications for the Radeon HD 4000 series cards which are rumored to be coming in May (thanks Blackened Fox for the tip). I went ahead and added these cards to our database though the specifications are still up in air. These cards are sporting some absolutely sick memory clock speeds thanks to GDDR5 support; the high end model will be running 1935MHz (that's 3870MHz effective!!).

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37025/135/

http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2008

11 Comments

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:10:31 PM

abovedefault
n00b

HOLY CRAP. that second link says the 4870 will have one teraflop of performance! imagine that in crossfire x (that is if ati can actually make 4 gpus work more effectively than rv680)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:53:31 PM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

They can't make 4 gpus work well. Communication between cards is going to be a bottleneck till they change fundamentally change how the cards communcate.

But yeah, these cards should give nVidia a nice kick in the ass in May...:)

Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00:15 AM

wyz135
Senior Member

ATi has really went out of its mind

Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:06:55 AM

Headfoot
Member

This is a very welcome development. Lets just hope that the upgrade to 32 TMU's is enough to de-bottleneck the massive shader power. I'm not sure about leavign ROP's at 16. In any case, this thing will be extremely competitive at its price point, maybe even challenging for the crown?

Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:11:04 AM

EgiTheKing
n00b

Its about time ATi showed some love to the TMU department. The timing couldn't be any better, as in response to nVidia's 9800 series

Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:09:19 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Two HD 4870 X2's should be fun cards to play with ... O_O .
As for the memory bandwidth... will it be left largely unused like on the HD 2900 XT again ?

Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:16:49 PM

Headfoot
Member

Its effective memory clock is 3870mhz. Coincidence? I think not.

Friday, April 25, 2008 8:16:23 AM

wyz135
Senior Member

@Radiator: When did we say don't need 128/256 bit memory bandwidth.....

Friday, April 25, 2008 11:38:38 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

@wyz - The HD 4870 has MORE memory bandwidth than the HD 2900 XT . The memory bus
width is irrelevant at the moment , because it still has a riddiculous
memory bandwidth .

Friday, April 25, 2008 6:46:55 PM

Sunny
Senior Member

Hopefully this will give Nvidia a good enough scare so that they come out with something better faster. Also some better prices, I don't like that they tend to start out with $600 on the high end cards.

Friday, April 25, 2008 11:04:48 PM

wyz135
Senior Member

@Radiatore: At least the card can stay in your PC for at least 2 year with the huge bandwidth

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