4850 and 4870 next month?

The German site Hardware-infos claims to know not only the releasedates, but the prices as well. The HD4870 and HD4850 should be available next month at a price of 349 and 269 dollar. Apart from that, the specifications the site reports differ from what was known earlier, the HD4870 will feature 1GB GDDR5 memory with a bandwidth of 256 that will run at 1935MHz (3870MHz effectively), a core clock of 850MHz and 1050MHz for the 480 shaders. The HD4850 will be 1728MHZ, 650MHz and 850MHz for respectively memory (also GDDR5, 512MB), core and shaders (480 as well). Notice that with this ATI takes over nVidia's strategy to clock the shaders higher than the core.

Last of all a GDDR3 version of the HD4850 is mentioned (price and availability unknown). This card has a lower memory speed of 1143MHz and apart from that is equal to the GDDR5 version. The prices and release dates of the HD4870 X2, 46x0 and the 44x0 are not mentioned.

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