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Sapphire and PowerColor announce HD 4870

by on23 June 2008

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Everyone's eager

It looks as if everyone is in a hurry to announce their latest AMD/ATI based graphics cards and both Sapphire and PowerColor have announced the details of their reference-based Radeon HD 4870 cards. It actually looks like people rushed out their press releases when AMD gave the go-ahead for the Radeon HD 4850 and forgot that the 4870 wasn't part of the deal.

Neither company offered anything out of the ordinary here, although for some reason PowerColor is quoting a GPU clock speed of 725MHz instead of the reference clock speed of 750MHz that everyone else, including Sapphire, is going for. Both cards are using GDDR5 memory clocked at 900MHz.

It seems like we'll have to wait a while longer before we start seeing non-reference cards, but it can't be that hard to come up with a new cooling solution; although saying that, it's not as if most of these companies have had all the details of these new cards for very long.

You can find the PowerColor press release here and the Sapphire one here (word document)

Last modified on 24 June 2008
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