The Rumor Mill & Whats New 4970 4890 4750 ect

[Badbonji]

So what do you think of intel when it does exactly that bar a few minor changes when die shrinking? My card runs hot, and 40nm would help overclock as well as keep it cooler in summer. Intel does it with their cpu's all the time, and it has seemed to work recently (Kentsfield -> Yorkfield, and will happen to Nehalem also). And the fact you are looking forward to a card exactly the same card with higher clocks, WITH A NEW NAME? Not to try a start here, but everyone does it.

 

[deathman20]

Yeah but with die shrinks on CPU's Intel adds more to them, weather its cache, more instruction sets, better controllers, more work per clock. Its a little different than what nVidia is doing with there die shrinks which is basically a straight conversion with no improvements except in the power front.

 

[Neuromancer]

Yeah but with die shrinks on CPU's Intel adds more to them, weather its cache, more instruction sets, better controllers, more work per clock. Its a little different than what nVidia is doing with there die shrinks which is basically a straight conversion with no improvements except in the power front.

Hey there is more to it than that with nVidia.

It gets a flashy new name that implies it is a new architecture (a la 250)

If they just die shrunk and oced the 4870 I will be fine with that unless they try and call it the 5870

 

[Niku-Sama]

http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Radeon+4890+Details+Confirmed+Pictures+Taken/article14616.htm

thats lame, ati is trying to keep costs down so they can get a leg up on competitors but the 3rd party doesent see it and is being kinda an ***...

very strange, i'm sure they'll pull something though, like 4890 $5 more than 4870

 

[necrokiller]

ATI RADEON HD4890 Benchmarks
http://www.ocheaven.com/news_view.asp?gid=8362


Pics of Gigabyte HD4890