ATI's Radeon 4890 as a replacement for ATI's Radeon 4870

[pent-x]

I am thinking to replace ATI's Radeon 4870 with a new ATI's Radeon 4890. My Price limit is 300 $. Furthermore, a new card should have a much more in idle lower power consumption! What about the 4890 X2? There, the performance increase over my previous ATI Radeon HD 4870 would certainly be a bit better. I have been playing really almost all the games on my 24 "LCD in 1920x1200. What can you recommend for me right now? Please suggest.

[Maxforu]

With the Radeon HD 4890 series that was ATI seemingly endless occurring losing streak come to an end. After the Radeon HD 3800 cards had no real chance against then husky GeForce 8000 team, one came with the Radeon HD 4850 and the Radeon HD 4870 (and later the Radeon HD 4870 X2) with a back and could again stand up to Nvidia. The competition went so far that Nvidia had to reduce the prices of its products strong. So i suggest you to go for ATI Radeon 4890.

[Killen]

AMD and NVIDIA graphics counter party accidentally while two new models into the race. Sprung up almost months rumors about AMD Radeon HD 4890, rumors surfaced later on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 on. The rumors to present the ATI Radeon HD 4890. And absolutely correct is that AMD originally intended the card really. But felt that the developments are better and the products were available, AMD 4890 we chose to put the go-ahead today.

[T.J.]

The Radeon HD 4890 is the designated successor to the HD 4870 and today AMD's fastest graphics card with a single GPU. This is achieved not by means of profound changes in the architecture, but by a stroke increase. AMD's ATI graphics department took care of some of the critical paths of the RV770 GPU and reduced in fine-tuning the signal noise. The result is a joyful clock chip that goes by the codename RV790. The RV790 will initially only on the Radeon HD 4890 for use and works with 850 megahertz. Compared with the HD 4870 (750 MHz) is a calculated performance advantage is 13 percent. To ensure that this does not evaporates, so does the clock of GDDR5 memory set to 150 MHz effective: The HD 4890 works at the factory with 1950 instead of 1800 MHz (+8 percent). Also a slight improvement experiences the board: an additional phase for the GPU provides more stability and a theoretically better OC capabilities with better Wärmeagabe. AMD puts the card at around 260 $ and thus fits between the Radeon HD 4870 and its dual-GPU HD 4870 X2 counterpart.

[Rawko]

The Radeon HD 4870 AMD was the symbiosis of high gaming performance and strong pricing. Nvidia's expensive compared with 250 $ Geforce GTX 260 was neither the one nor the other hand, hold in the other category. Only after Nvidia in the GeForce GTX 260-216 activated 216 instead of 192 shader processors, the GTX was able to keep up at least 260 in performance. The price war, expressed both card under 200 €, with the 1.0-gigabyte version of the Radeon HD 4870 (180 $) 10 to 20 $ less expensive than the GeForce GTX 260-216.