HIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo 1 GB GDDR5 Review
March 25, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
AMD’s HD 4870 has been on the market for a while now and is soon to be succeeded by the HD 4890. Nevertheless the card is still a great performance choice, especially since many manufacturers are also offering 1 GB versions of the card. The reference design featured 512 MB of GDDR5 at launch.
HIS has couple a custom colored AMD reference PCB with their own IceQ cooling solution and an extra overclock of 770 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory.
Gainward Readies Radeon HD 4850 with GDDR5 Memory
March 17, 2009 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Breaking the rules just because it can, Gainward has designed and is now preparing the release of a custom Radeon HD 4850 that, instead of the usual GDDR3 memory, makes use of significantly faster GDDR5 chips. Named Radeon HD 4850 GS (Golden Sample) GLH (Goes Like Hell), the upcoming card has a dual-slot cooler 512MB of memory, D-Sub, DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI connectors, a 256-bit memory interface, and CrossFireX support.
Spec wise, the card boasts a 700 MHz GPU (650 MHz stock) and 3600 MHz memory, the same as the Radeon HD 4870. Gainward’s HD 4850 512MB GS GLH is expected to hit stores in the next few weeks.
Source: tcmagazine
Sphere: Related ContentD12U will be first Nvidia GPU with GDDR5 support
June 5, 2008 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
Nvidia hasn’t even launched its D10U product yet and we’re already starting to hear whispers about the company’s next-next-next generation graphics products.
Several memory manufacturers have confirmed that the first Nvidia GPU to feature support for GDDR5 memory will be the D12U part, which is said to be currently scheduled for a late 2009 launch.
Obviously, D12U probably hasn’t even left the drawing board yet, but it’s clear that Nvidia is already in discussions with memory manufacturers about the supply of high-speed GDDR5 memory. We already know that ATI’s next-generation graphics cards support GDDR5, and we’re likely to see the new memory technology used on the RV770XT-based products.
GDDR5 is currently made on a 70nm node, but by the time Nvidia gets around to using it, it’ll be manufactured on a 55nm process – that’s expected to happen at some point during 2009. What’s more, by the end of Q1 2009, memory manufacturers expect to have doubled the density of the technology, meaning higher capacity memory kits will be available for newer graphics cards.
AMD puts GDDR5 on R700 Graphic Cards
May 22, 2008 by Cabro · Leave a Comment
The Inquirer has reported that AMD IS TO STICK GDDR5 memory on its upcoming ATI Radeon R700 graphics cards.
AMD said it is working with a number of leading memory providers, including Samsung, Hynix and Qimonda, to bring GDDR5 to market. Qimonda confirms it is delivering the memory now.
