http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/ Engadget Comments for Force3D, Asustek, GeCube roll out Radeon HD 4850, 4870 series cards http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
Anyway, these card look pretty nice. I wonder what the price is...]]>Jun 24th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/]]>Jun 24th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/ Because most places have been quiet about the 4870

That's because not everybody finished toying around with 3870 and X2.

Thanks to ATI/AMD, the last half of year in GPU market was quite entertaining.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
Thats a conundrum or something.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/what is the difference between GDDR5 and DDR3 anyways.....?
i hope HEXUS.net is right.....
and if anyone sais "will this play crysis though?", i will personally come over to their house and shoot them
and im pretty sure it will]]>Jun 24th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
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O.o

Title sugest that GECUBE rolls out both when force 3d and asusteck is the one who has both...nice ]]>Jun 24th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/what is the difference between GDDR5 and DDR3 anyways.....?
i hope HEXUS.net is right.....
and if anyone sais "will this play crysis though?", i will personally come over to their house and shoot them
and im pretty sure it will]]>Jun 24th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
They definitely feel an edge over nVidia right now.

Anyway, I like ATI's approach to scaling processing power - similar to CPU cores - better than nVidia's monolithic design. With nVidia, unless you have x8xx card you always feel somehow inferior.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/looks like the 4870 kicks the crap out of the 4850
I'd like to know how it compares to the Nvidia offerings
...and what the nvidia offerings are
there are too goddamn many]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/ The 4870 trades some serious blows with the GTX260 and prevails over it in most games.

Most interesting to me was that 4850 was in many games on par with gtx260. Overall it was slower, yet sometime it beat gtx260. And that's $200 vs $450 we speaking here.

Benchmarks of 4870 should be definitely very very interesting. Even if it would be marginally slower than gtx280, it's still win for ATI.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
I wonder if this will lead to shortages because of the use of newer and possibly lesser yielding GDDR5 memory? GDDR3 is a lot more mature and I could see why Nvidia would stick with that for now, even if did require a more complicated and wider bus.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
http://www.expreview.com/img/topic/hd4800/crysis_01.png]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/ http://www.expreview.com/img/topic/hd4800/crysis_01.png

Cool. 4870 does 3870 X2. That's all I wanted to know ;)

I wonder how 4870 X2 would pare.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3338&p=5

As for 4870 - I guess we need to sit tight waiting for benchmarks tomorrow.

Due to faster/more memory (as compared to 4850) it is hard to predict how 4870 would appear in power efficiency department.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
Considering getting the 2600xt or a HD3850, but now these cards are out im wondering how much bttr these are for HD material.

Do these newer radeon HD cards mostly sell for gaming? Or does anyone buy them for the HD stuff?]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
Frankly, I'd expect any non-budget card made in last two years to perform well in HD playback.

P.S. Apple iMac 24" (1920x1200) and has ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO which retails right now for literally nothing. And the iMacs are sold in part for HD playback. http://www.apple.com/imac/features/ - and think that ATI Windows drivers are better than Apple's ones.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
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Basically all i need is good HD playback and audio over DVI-HDMI.]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/
Do you think that it will give me a better refresh rate when I am surfing the net and reading my mail and that sort of stuff that I do on my Mac ?]]>Jun 24th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 24th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/force3d-asustek-gecube-roll-out-radeon-hd-4850-4870-series-ca/Jun 25th 2008 12:05AM