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Radeon 4850 / 4870 to launch on the 25th

by on06 June 2008


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Computex 08: Eight days after GT200


ATI will launch its Radeon 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 cards on the 25th of June. It is the last week of June, and the date was the original that we've implied.

There might be some ATI activities before that date, but the official launch with retail availability will indeed be the 25th of this month. Nvidia should be launching on Tuesday, the 17th of June, assuming the retail availability of both Geforce GTX 280 and Geforce GTX 260.


The cards will end up quite fast, much faster than previous RV670 cards, especially with FSAA and Aniso turned on, as RV770 does Anti-aliasing the way it should and not via Shaders (as was the case with RV670).

We heard 1.5 times faster is the number that should appear, at least in the most optimistic case.

Last modified on 06 June 2008
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