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ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 to get a price cut
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Posted on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 19:12:23 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck |
DailyTech heard the price of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB will drop $50 to $149, while the Radeon HD 4850 512MB will drop to $129. The move is aimed to fend off NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTS 250 1GB and 512MB graphics cards, which are expected to be launched tomorrow.
The ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB will drop $50 in price, from the $199 segment down to $149. It will compete in this price point primarily against NVIDIA's GTS 250 1GB rebrand using the old G92 chip, variants of which were used in the 8800GT, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, etc. However, the HD 4870 has been shown to surpass the performance of NVIDIA's GTX 260 line, and value seekers may choose to leave NVIDIA for a better price/performance point.
The Radeon 4870 uses GDDR5 to provide more video memory bandwidth than the GTX260, even though it has more RAM, a wider memory bus, and higher clocked memory.
The ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB will drop to $129, and is designed to compete at the same price point as NVIDIA's GTS 250 512MB version. The Radeon HD 4830 will be replaced by another part soon at a lower price point.
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