Palit ATi Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition 512MB GDDR5 memory

[blindsleeper]

Hardware manufacturer Palit has announced an ATI HD 4850 which uses gddr5 memory. It is a special Sonic Edition, from the factory higher clock speeds and a cooler of our own design meekrijgt.

With the introduction of the HD 4850 Sonic Palit Special Edition was the first hardware manufacturer to a HD 4850 with gddr5 memory on the market. For it is only known that the card has 512MB gddr5 memory, the clock speeds of the GPU and memory are not yet published. Although the specifications of the Palit card briefly on his site mentioned, this is now removed. Via the Google cache of the page is still available.

The video has the Sonic-fan, as well as the HD 4850 Sonic Edition is available. Furthermore, the card has a DVI, VGA, HDMI and display port output. The video producer is not known when and for what price the HD 4850 Sonic Special Edition will be available.

To what extent Palits new HD 4850 is actually an HD 4850 is still to be seen. The only one which differs from a HD 4870 HD 4850 is the use of gddr5 memory and higher clock speeds. It also makes a regular HD 4850 use an 6-pin pci-e connector, but Palits HD 4850, like the HD 4870, using two 6-pin pci-e connectors. It is therefore likely that the GPU speed of the HD 4850 is above the standard 625MHz. The problem is that a normal HD 4870 at 750MHz graphic is that the HD 4850 Sonic Special Edition seems to have more of an HD 4870, then the HD 4850.

[Una]

The price of this 4850 will probably go to 4870 but slightly lower. I think that it is a nice card for the slightly cheaper games systems. But depends on the price off course.

[CoModO]

My 4850 also runs at 750 MHz is only with DDR3 memory, as my 4850 can run on 750, other than that as well. With GDDR5 memory is just a standard 4870 which is ..

[Mac-Imagery]

And Sonic Special Edition has 2 6pin pci-e connectors, making it even more on an HD 4870 appears. More plugs are not needed if energy consumption is not higher, and higher energy, you get only through higher clock speeds. Looks like the page from the air met, so I wonder what is exactly going on.

[Tomaz]

It is nothing more than a 4870 pretty much. And, 4870s are getting lower and lower, but if this thing sells for less than a regular 4870, I'd go for it. If not, you're dumb for buying it.