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ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Graphics Cards Coming Late June

The stage is set for a great graphics cards battle this summer. In one corner you have NVIDIA gearing up to release their next-generation architecture and in the other you have the ATI R700 that will be designated the Radeon HD 4800 series. The cards that we are waiting for would be the Radeon HD 4870 512MB and Radeon HD 4870X2 1GB as they will feature super fast GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 4850 will use cost effective GDDR3 memory and as a result cost just under $200 if the rumors are true. Are you ready for faster graphics cards? The time is almost here and many of the cards will be spotted at Computex in a couple weeks.

ATI will introduce the much-anticipated 4800 series of graphics card on a date "somewhere between the 15th and 22nd of June" according to our old mate Theo over at TG Daily. This is, coincidentally, the same week in which Nvidia is expected to unveil the significantly more expensive (though not significantly more advanced) GT200. The 4800 range is expected start at less than two hundred of your yankee dollars for the 4850 variant with half a gig of GDDR3 graphicy goodness and the abilty to run up to four cards per system. The 4870, and 4870X2 to be launched in July, will carry 512MB and 1024MB of GDDR5 respectively.

The Inquirer

Posted by | Sat, May 17, 2008 - 08:45 AM