Retail pricing on HD 4870 X2 revealed, and more
As the launch of AMD's highly anticipated Radeon HD 4870 X2 nudges ever closer, Fudzilla claim to have found out what the retail pricing will be on these cards.
Apparently the HD 4870 X2 with 2GB of GDDR5 will hit retail shelves at $549 USD during the second half of August. In retrospect, NVIDIA has lowered pricing of the GTX 280 to around $500 USD to help soften the blow when R700 hits. But AMD's card does still look a lot more appealing; at just $50 more you're getting double the GPUs, double the memory, and supposedly up to 80% better performance than the GTX 280 (according to this brief report over at HARDSPELL).
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Radeon HD 4600 Series spotted
Expreview has spotted a picture and some brief info on AMD's mid-range HD 4650 Series graphics cards over at the Chiphell forums.
The card was photoshopped to protect the source, but you still get a good idea of what to expect, and it isn't anything unusual.
PowerColor boosts the HD 4850 with 2GB GDDR3
All the partners' HD 4850 cards we've seen hit shelves thus far tend to be much of the reference design, but PowerColor have taken a huge step away from the same ole' approach by whacking on 2GB of GDDR3 memory. This is a huge leap from the usual 512MB, and although probably overkill, it should certainly help the card under higher resolutions where the memory buffer is more likely to be filled.
Further to that, PowerColor has also cranked up the memory frequency to 2000MHz and the core to 665MHz out of the box. The icing on the cake is the inclusion of a superior full-copper cooling solution from ZEROTherm.
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R700 to steal NVIDIA's 9800GTX+ launch limelight?
Is AMD planning to overdress and take all the limelight away from NVIDIA's presumed 9800GTX+ launch next week? If this story is to be believed, the answer could be, yes.
AMD's R700 which has, just slightly, piqued the interest of enthusiasts, could be heading for a launch on July 14th, some two weeks ahead of AMD's original schedule.
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NVIDIA's 55nm strategy gets energy boost
NVIDIA is playing, follow the leader, as it prepares to accelerate its 55nm GPU strategy in the remainder of 2008, according to this report from DIGITIMES.
Quoting its source as Commercial Times, the report cites that with NVIDIA's G92b and GT200 already on a 55nm pathway, expectations are set that the Santa Clara, CA based company's mid-range GPU, the G96, will have the dubious pleasure of gracing both 55nm and 65nm processes.
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Intel Bloomfield 2.66 GHz steps up to challenge
The expected performance boost to be derived from Intel's eagerly anticipated Nehalem microarchitecture based CPUs, codenamed Bloomfield, has been the cause of much excitement recently.
Today, the 2.66 GHz flavour of the Penryn successor has appeared, quite explicitly we might add, in these images presented on CHIPHELL.
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GIGABYTE DES on P45/P43 - even more efficient
GIGABYTE and ASUS are currently in a fierce battle over their competing DES and EPU power saving technologies; both continuing to look at ways where they can prove they have the superior solution.
A little piece of documentation has kindly been presented to us a short time ago which reveals a little trick up GIGABYTE's sleeve, and may just allow them to reign supreme with power efficiency management across their P45 and P43 motherboard range, at least for a while until ASUS find a way to strike back.
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AMD's 790GX feature-set and performance revealed
The lads at ChileHardware have some more exclusive news for us in the way of AMD's upcoming 790GX chipset.
A couple of new slides reveal both a summary of 790GX's feature-set along with some performance numbers which show a significant increase in performance (roughly 33%) with its IGP in DX10 games over that of the 780G chipset.
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Pioneer pushes optical storage to new heights
Whilst Blu-ray still hasn't fully embedded itself as the mainstream optical storage of choice, technology keeps on moving forward and efforts to push the barriers of limitation are always in place.
With that said, Pioneer has successfully found a way to put no less than 16 layers on what looks like a standard optical disc. What makes this even more impressive is that each layer is the same size as a standard Blu-ray's; 25GB.
Pioneer said the biggest challenge in accomplishing this was finding a way to stop crosstalk/interference between each layer as it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain a clear signal when more layers are packed onto the disc.
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9800GTX+ readies for release, images tease
NVIDIA's attempts to stave off, particularly the HD 4850 SKUs advances on the market, with its GeForce 9800GTX+, should see the light of day within the next fortnight - July 16th, to be precise. Utilising a 55nm G92b GPU, the 9800GTX+ is expected to offer GPU, Shader and GDDR3 Memory clocks of 738 MHz, 1836 MHz and 2200 MHz, respectively.
As these images show, ZOTAC is one of a clamour of NVIDIA AIBs, aiming to please, with a rather striking looker.
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