Who of you expect ATI 4890?

[iluvgillgill]

HD4870 at 900mhz will sure melt the card since stock load temp is over 90 in case.

 

[yipsl]

I'm just going to say this is really hopeful/dumb speculation.

ATI's card that they will use to beat the GTX280 with is the 4870X2. ATI doesn't have the kind of money nVidia has to launch a new production line to beat the GTX280 with a single GPU. That would also take upwards of a year. By then, you're in your next generation of cards.

It's not just money for the product line, but the days of monster GPU's that beat the competition @ $600 by a smidgen are dying. Nvidia needs to develop the same attitude ATI has. The future lies in multi-GPU cards on one PCB with cooperation between developers and GPU companies leading to better scaling.

After that, we'll see dual core GPU's, triple and quad core GPU's too. Fusion will work for notebooks and the low end, but may not replace IGP's totally (but allow for hybrid Crossfire).

That's the future if we're going to have any performance past simple Crossfire on AMD and Intel or SLI on Nvidia boards. I hope Larrabee takes Crossfire as it's standard and it would be great to see ATI, Intel and Nvidia IGPs and discrete GPU's work alongside CPU core GPU's as well.

 

[spathotan]

Well if the 4870X2 dosent use Crossfire and is totally intergrated together, you can preety much go ahead and put your money down on it being roughly 10% within SLi'd GTX 280's for the cost of a single GTX 280.

 

[yipsl]

It will be like the 3870x2, only improved. It will be two GPU's on one PCB and will use the memory to interface rather than a bridge chip. Still, it's only step in the right direction. I'll be curious to see what ATI has out to use alongside mainstream Fusion CPU's in a couple of years.

Swift might be for notebooks and low end desktops, but I can't see the technology of Fusion limited to that segment. Eventually, I expect to see the power of the integrated GPU core tied to the quality of the CPU cores.

 

[crosshares]

I think nVidia hired ronka to be their official tom's hardware fanboi, maybe in exchange for a mail in rebate that lowers the 280's price to something that actually makes sense.

something that makes sense, I'd say a $10 rebate, because $650 seems to make sense for Nvidia :lol:

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Ive heard the new CCC may go to 1000, but thats rumors . Remember the 1000 on the core rumors? Well, I guess they arent dead. Everyone knows that its a fan problem so far, they run hot, just like the 1900s did, hell my old 1900xt512Mb ran in the 80s all the time, but my case was nice n cool, being a true out the back dual slot solution. Im waiting for HIS to come out. But itll only get better from here, and yes, if they shrink to 45 or 40nm, therell be a 4890 or a 4970 or a 4875?