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New XFX Radeon HD 4850 graphics card

Written by IT News on 2:58 AM

Back to the end of 2008, XFX, one of the largest producers of NVIDIA-based graphics cards, has announced that it will begin its partnership with AMD-ATI graphics subsidiary. After the show, says the manufacturer of graphics cards are also planned debut of its first ATI Radeon graphics card that comes to its users with an alternative to the GeForce already on the market. So far, these products have not been able to ensure their presence, but after the latest round of leaked information that the company is ready for shipping paper said.

XFX still officially its new graphics card issued by an ATI Radeon graphics processor. But there are also cards that appear to have been expected to arrive via the Internet because it is a German online store. The seven works have been listed, ranging from basic to advanced performance. ATI Radeon HD4350, HD4650 two, one HD4830, HD4850 one and two HD4870, prices vary from € 40 to € 260 or so.

There is little information on the specifications of the new cards, but it seems that the company is close to issuing cards on the market. According to the existing images, one of the two HD 4870 cards with AMD reference cooler, while the HD 4850 comes with a brand new cooler, designed by XFX. The same should be cooler at the forefront of one of the tasks in the short, the Radeon HD 4830 XFX.

No information on when new products to buy, but users and fans should keep an eye on the market. With these new cards, XFX is trying to do a good price / performance for its customers. With the move of the company is part of another manufacturer of graphics cards, has been used to print only on NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors.

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MSI Radeon HD 4830 comes next week

Written by IT News on 7:45 PM

It seems that the only next week we will be able to get our hands on ATI's new graphics card, the Radeon HD 4830. According to the latest news on the Web, the card is almost complete and will be heading to the market shortly. The Radeon HD 4830 comes as a direct competitor to the Geforce 9800GT-based products, and it is said to be much cheaper than the ATI Radeon HD 4850.

The new graphical solution is based on RV770LE core, which is basically a RV770PRO which has some pipelines disabled and also comes with a slower clock and less bandwidth. Also, while RV770XT and PRO chips feature 800 shaders, the RV770LE the Radeon HD 4830 will only be of 480 shaders. This is why the card is expected to be released at the end of next week with prices significantly lower than HD 4850.

More news on the Radeon HD 4830-card comes from the VR-Zone, which managed to get hold of some pictures of the Board, which is manufactured by MSI. Micro Star International graphics solution has a 575MHz core clock frequency and includes 512 MB of memory clocked at 1800MHz. MSI HD 4830-card comes with 8 Samsung K4J52324QH-HJ1A GDDR3 memory chips is estimated at 1ns, which total 512. While users will need a 6-pin PCIe power connector for this GPU.

According to VR-Zone, MSI is planning to release the new Radeon HD 4830 cards on October 23, and it will probably be priced below $ 150.

In other related news, ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2 is said to have a driver hotfix that makes it possible to increase performance in the upcoming Far Cry 2 title. This will be a DirectX 10.1 game, and ATI want to take advantage of fulfilling their brief to beat Geforce GTX 280. Since the game will be launched next week, both in North America and Europe, ATI will hotfix short, so it must have DirectX 10.1 support for moving on Nvidia's GT200 family. [source softpedia]