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Unannounced Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 appears at retail

by Parm Mann on 17 March 2009, 11:39

Tags: Sapphire

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According to the rumour mill, AMD plans to introduce a new GPU sometime next month. Dubbed the Radeon HD 4890, the part is believed by some to be a faster-clocked derivative of the existing Radeon HD 4870.

AMD has yet to comment, but the card now appears to be imminent as Sapphire's 1GB version has made its way to the product pages of New Zealand-based etailer PB Technologies.

Although frequencies remain unknown and details are few and far between, PB Technologies lists the card at a cost of $690 NZD - that's roughly Ā£260.

Take the listing with a grain of salt, of course, but don't be surprised to hear AMD announce the Radeon HD 4890 in the very near future.



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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the 4890 supposed to be just an overclocked 4870?
That is the word on the grapevine, yes. In fact, I think it says that in the article… :p
The card has a diffrent pin out to the 4870 core, it is a derivative with enhancements and its going to have 850mhz core aparently and 4x975 memory. Those are likely to get lower though.
I hope they've sorted out some way of dropping voltage to the DDR5 chips when idle - that would help in the power usage department.
kalniel
I hope they've sorted out some way of dropping voltage to the DDR5 chips when idle - that would help in the power usage department.

It would also help with the temperatures. It doesn't really help that the memory is running at 3.6ghz all the time :O_o1:.