ATI Radeon HD 4850 GDDR3 Graphics Card Pictured in Taiwan – RV770
Pictures of AMDs upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card were leaked this weekend as one lucky editor got some face time with the new graphics card while at meetings before the show. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here you go!
So here it is – it could be mistaken for the Radeon HD 3850, except for the larger fan, although nothing much else has changed on the surface. It’s still red and single slot with a six-pin PCI-Express power connector. We scrounged for some light to get a side on die shot but it just wasn’t happening. From the looks of it though, it’s not all that huge and to keep it under the ~130W envelope the heatsink can stand, we still expect the same TSMC 55nm process. According to the rumours we’ve been hearing, both the Radeon HD 4850 and the higher-end Radeon HD 4870 will feature 480 stream processors in a similar arrangement to the R600 generation (i.e. 96 five-way shader processors). The Radeon HD 4850 is rumoured to use GDDR3 memory, while AMD has already announced that the high-end Radeon HD 4870 will utilise the all-new GDDR5 memory.
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