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GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST"!

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Published: Wednesday 4th June, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Gigabyte GV R485Zl-512H
Companies: Gigabyte (All Gigabyte content)
External reviews: Gigabyte GV R485Zl-512H

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We've been on the lookout for an HD Radeon 4850 here at COMPUTEX ever since GIGABYTE hinted at AMD and NVIDIA's next-gen graphics cards.

Fortunately for us, part of that search came to an end today when we had our hands on this:

Yep, that's AMD's forthcoming mid-range GPU, the Radeon HD 4850. It's a single-slot design, and it doesn't look all too dissimilar from the current 3800-series. Our sources state that AMD aren't allowing its partners to adjust the reference design at launch. If indeed that is the case, every Radeon HD 4850 will initially look like the above, with the various partner-provided derivatives arriving later on.

The card provides 512MiB of GDDR3 memory and features dual DVI-I outputs. Unfortunately, GIGABYTE weren't willing to cough-up any further details, despite showing the card. Nonetheless, there's support for CrossFire X and our favourite feature is undoubtedly the sticker that says "FAST".



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Re: Headlines - GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST" !
So what happened to GDDR 4? :stupid:Quote
Re: Headlines - GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST" !

Quote: FifthFreedom
So what happened to GDDR 4? :stupid:

Inflation is increasing at the moment, you know. Everything is going up rapidly, so why not memory numbering? :DQuote
Re: Headlines - GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST" !
AMD has done a great job with the new HD 4000 series cards. Much faster than the previous HD 3000 series. One single HD 4850 is faster or equal to the high end HD 3870 X2 card. So I can only imagine how super fast the HD 4870 X2 will perform.Quote
Re: Headlines - GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST" !
Not sure about the rest of the forum readers but I had a bad experience with Gigabyte M/Boards - on two occassions they arrived DOA.Quote
Re: Headlines - GIGABYTE shows off AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 4850 - "FAST" !
Not much to do with graphics cards though is it?Quote

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