ATI Radeon 4800 series launch details revealed
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 15th 2008 1:16PM
posted May 15th 2008 1:16PM
NVIDIA had already heard enough about AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 series to bump up the launch date for its GeForce 9900 series cards, but TG Daily has now apparently turned up some more launch details for the mid-to-high-end cards, the first of which is reportedly now on track for a release in mid-June. That first card will be the Radeon 4850, codenamed "Makedon," which will boast 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, single-slot cooling, CrossFireX support, and a price tag between $189-$219. That'll be followed in July by a pair of Radeon 4870 cards (dubbed "Trojan"), with one boasting 512MB of GDDR5 memory and the other boasting a full 1024MB, the latter of which will come with a dual-slot cooler. Look for those to cost between costing between $249 and $279. The whole lot of them will also pack "game physics processing capability," along with 7.1 channel audio via HDMI support, DirectX 10.1 support, and, as you might have guessed, some pretty heavy power requirements, with a 450 watt power supply needed for a single card and 550 watts needed for a CrossFire setup.
I just wish they would put their drivers back on the main site. http://games.amd.com is blocked here at work so I have to d/l the drivers at home and bring them in.
Looking forward to the release. I need two cards for both my main rigs right now.
man im really looking forward to this. I've always been a huge ATI fan, but lately I had to go with Nvidia becuase of all the benchmarks tech sites have been posting... well at least around the time the 8800GTS 640 was released.
Now even if the benchmarks stay the same with the release of the 4000 ATI Series I will be getting one just because of the the price. Im sick of paying $400 on a videocard that is slightly better than the competition's offering.
Well I was a ATi person since I got my first Ati 9200 Radeon which I still have by the way Couldn't say that about my Nvidia 5200 FX 256, then I upgraded to a 9800 Pro, then when HL2 came out I got the 9800XT 256 which kicked "Donkey" that card is also still in one of my Other PC's along with the Pro but there isnt much 8pixel pipelines and 400mhz core clock can get you nowadays then I upgraded to a 7800 GTX 512 "won it in a contest" then once the 8800GTX came put I got one $650 Freaking dollars. all I can say now is go ATi!!!
What's with ATI bringing their product numbers around. Is my 9600 PRO suddenly going to be cool again?