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Originally Posted by watzup_ken

One more thing. If this piece of news is true, then the naming is really weird cause performance will def be better than a HD4850. And ATI is shooting themselves in the foot cause when Palit was gonna slap GDDR5 onto their non reference, they were pretty much against it. And now, they are doing the same thing and naming it as a lower end chip than the HD4850. May be they can call it HD4860?

Palit is not more in ATI business=(...That's why u never see Palit 4890 around in local market or from online

[psolord]

I don't see the point of this card, plus this time, the name is indeed stupid. It should be called 4860!

Still, the 4870 and the 4850 have gone dirt cheap, and i guess that the 5850 will be a bit faster than the 4890, so filling a hole between the 4870 and the 4850, just before a new product launch, seems a bit strange!

[Shrek]

is it 40nm in the first place?

[watzup_ken]

Seems like this HD4790 is for real. Its actually a 55nm RV790.

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