Radeon HD 4000 Series in June?

[Jimmy 2004]

If German site called HARTWARE.NET is to be believed, AMD's next generation of Radeon graphics cards could be released as early as June this year. According to the site, an AMD roadmap it has managed to acquire shows seven upcoming cards, the Radeon HD 4450, Radeon HD 4470, Radeon HD 4650, Radeon HD 4670, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4870, and Radeon HD 4870 X2. The 4400 cards will apparently feature 40 stream processors, the 4600 cards will have 240 and the 4800 cards will have 480 (with the X2 featuring 960 overall, 480 on each core). There is no firm indication of clock speeds, but the 4600 and 4800 cards are expected to run somewhere between 800MHz and 1050MHz depending on the model, ranging from 128MB of DDR2 to 1GB of GDDR5 memory. However, there are no details of which cards will be released when, just that the initial launch could be sometime in June. Remember that this information might not be completely reliable and shouldn't be interpreted as firm facts.

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[zOaib]

holy moly 1gb ddr5 wow

 

[ShadowFold]

I might hybrid my 3850 with a 4450 if thats possible..

 

[snuif09]

if they release it in june then nvidia must work hard cause if they have there 9xxx series out
and amd already has the 4xxx then its good news for amd

 

[flashstar]

The 4870 X2 should be 2 TF of power.

 

[CY:G]

Wow, my HD 3870x2 is looking dated already, haha

 

[Dangle]

I don't care about 38xx and 48xx - gimme some 49xx

 

[magibeg]

Oh wow..... if they perform anywhere as good as their numbers seem to hint i may have to sell my 3870 and get one of those :-O!!! Then hope i can finally run crysis at max

 

[Cold Storm]

I'd rather go with my 3870x2 that I'm going to be getting. It's up in the air for when the cards are even going to be coming out... so there isn't a big reason to wait..

 

[WhiteLotus]

Just what are they doing in the labs to produce new cards that smash current cards!!!!

if this is true rock on AMD, however this could pee a lot of people off if they have bought a new card recently.

 

[btarunr]

It takes such less time for current-gen hardware to become out-dated these days

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I think it mite be a 4850 for me

 

[Nitro-Max]

Weve all heard these release dates before and june can turn into july or august september before you know it 2009 especially for the higher spec cards.

 

[wtf8269]

Somehow I don't think this is true.

 

[yogurt_21]

so the roadmap say june? then we can expect these cards mid-december. nice.

 

[Weer]

Radeon HD 4000 series? I thought they were going to skip 4000 and 5000 and go all the way up to 6000, next..

 

[ShadowFold]

Umm where did you hear that lol

 

[Scrizz]

sweet time to save for a 4870x2

 

[Morgoth]

4870x2 wil be my next card

 

[ShadowFold]

4870x2 wil be my next card

If Hybrid CF goes right then a HD 4450 will be my next card

Well looking at the specs I might go with a 46XX..

 

[mandelore]

heh, my overclocked 1gb 2900xt will see me till one of these beasts

Edit: now i just need some money...... LOL

 

[Exceededgoku]

heh, my overclocked 1gb 2900xt will see me till one of these beasts

Edit: now i just need some money...... LOL

Haha that is soo true!

 

[candle_86]

meh, if Nvidia knows this, it might be why the 9800GX2 is delayed or even canned, so the 9800GTX can arrive.

 

[WarEagleAU]

Wow, got ATI!

 

[ShadowFold]

Anyone know the prices yet? I hope a 4670 is under 150$