The 4860?! Say what....?!

[rambo117]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102866

Is this just a typo or is there a new revision of the 4850?

-Rambo

 

[jay2tall]

It's a real card.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=000101&pid=301

It's basically a 4870, but they clocked it down and disabled 160 shaders, so it has 640 instead of 800. They clocked the GPU down to 700MHz from 750MHz and the memory down to 750MHz instead of 900MHz.

It's a crippled 4870. that's all. I've only seen Sapphire make them.

 

[spinetap]

well there are not the same spec. wise.

4860

Stream Processors 640 Stream Processing
GPU Core Clock 700MHz
Memory Clock 750MHz (3.0Gbps)
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR5
RV790 core (same core as the 4890)


4850

Stream Processors 800 Stream Processing Units
GPU Core Clock 625MHz
Memory Clock 993MHz, 1986 Mbps
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR3
RV770 core


Looks like a stripped down versoin of the 4890.

Hope thats helps!

 

[jay2tall]

^ I think some engineer at ATI was bored sitting there staring at a 4870 and thought, "hmm well we can't sell you cheaper, because people are still buying you. But what if we disable a few things and make you run slower, and charge people less. YEAH then those people that don't want to pay for a 4870 will buy you."

 

[OvrClkr]

For the price it does not look bad.... Not so great reviews though....

 

[daedalus685]

LOL WTF??!?!?!?! HD 4860 LMAO, never heard of it.

Quality of knowledge = (Time spent researching)/(Number of capitals used improperly + extra punctuation + inane comments on a board)

So I am not surprised at your surprise 😉

Anyway, the 4860 is a cut down 4890 as far as I know. Just produced to use up the odd failed 4890 I suppose. I doubt there were many made.

 

[rambo117]

It's a real card.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=000101&pid=301

It's basically a 4870, but they clocked it down and disabled 160 shaders, so it has 640 instead of 800. They clocked the GPU down to 700MHz from 750MHz and the memory down to 750MHz instead of 900MHz.

It's a crippled 4870. that's all. I've only seen Sapphire make them.

It seems so pointless to be messing around with an (dare I say) "older" card. Why not keep focus on the 5xxx series? I don't think that i'd bother with this card, id just go with a 5770.

 

[wa1]

^ I think some engineer at ATI was bored sitting there staring at a 4870 and thought, "hmm well we can't sell you cheaper, because people are still buying you. But what if we disable a few things and make you run slower, and charge people less. YEAH then those people that don't want to pay for a 4870 will buy you."

^+1
i like your post here... 😀

btw, if i want to buy a new card, i wouldn't choose this card for sure, there's a lot of 5XXX series cards out there with newest tech and more efficiency.

 

[kyosho]

I just ordered this card. There are people overclocking it past 4890 levels. Makes sense since it's nearly the same thing. I'm upgrading my computer and I wanted something noteably faster than my 8800gt but cheap. It's somewhat risky since I could end up with one that doesn't overclock well. If that's the case then owell. It's still notably quicker than my 8800gt. It will tide me over for a while till I see what happens with the Fermi launch.

 

[OvrClkr]

I just ordered this card. There are people overclocking it past 4890 levels. Makes sense since it's nearly the same thing. I'm upgrading my computer and I wanted something noteably faster than my 8800gt but cheap. It's somewhat risky since I could end up with one that doesn't overclock well. If that's the case then owell. It's still notably quicker than my 8800gt. It will tide me over for a while till I see what happens with the Fermi launch.

the 4860 cannot attain the same performance as a 4890 regardless of the overclock, the only thing you can equal is the memory/core clock... The 4860 has 640 SPU's while the 4890 has 800 SPU's........

That is like me saying I am going to get a GTX 260 instead of a 275 and i will overclock it to the same speeds :lol: , it does not work that way.....

 

[Mousemonkey]

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