According to the pictures seen at Expreview.com, Powercolor is preparing a new version of the HD 4850 card with 2GB of memory.

The new card is also the first one that will use the non-reference Powercolor dual-slot PCS cooling, courtesy of Zerotherm. The non-reference cooling gives Powercolor a chance to push the 55nm RV770Pro GPU a bit higher so this card will end up clocked at 665MHz for the core and 2,000MHz for GDDR3 memory.

According to our sources, Powercolor wants to do a card that will be bullet-proof for future games, but this amount of memory might take a price of this card way higher than it should be, unless they have some sort of a special deal for those memory chips. Anyway, 2GB's of memory just sounds like an overkill.

The price of the card remains a mystery, but according to our sources it should appear on the market sometime at the end of July or early August, just as we wrote before.

You can find the pictures here.