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Radeon 4850 launch pulled in for today
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Thursday, 19 June 2008 12:23

Exclusive: Failure to control

Since you can buy Radeon 4850 in most of the countries in Europe and even in Israel, someone at AMD decided to change the NDA and launch date for 4850 cards for today - meaning now.

We've learned that if you have some Radeon 4850 scores, AMD won't mind if you post some „early numbers“. However, the presentation of Radeon 4870 remains under embargo until Wednesday the 25th. This has been confirmed by high ranked sources inside ATI / AMD and if you don't trust us, simply call AMD and double check.

Thousands of Radeon 4850 have already been sold in retail / etail stores and there is no way to control this. We've learned that distributors and shops received these cards between three and one week ago and that they were just waiting for ATI's final OK.

What a mess, and most won’t be ready with their reviews but then again many will, at least till Monday. DAAMIT people you should've executed this one at least a bit better.

Update: As this is one developing story we've learned that the reason for pulling the launch was at the request of big customers. A lot of people at Malaga are buying much more Radeon 4870 and 4850 cards then it was originally expected.

Journalists we talked to are less than impressed but the people who buys hundreds and thousands of these cards made the call and pulled in this launch.

At least you can now tell that customers, distributors and partners are impressed with price / performance ratio and they are buying like there is no tomorrow. It's a good card, you will see from all reviews that will start showing up today.
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http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8016&Itemid=1

:D

Review: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/724-1/preview-ati-radeon-hd-4850.html
Google translator will kindly help out with the French -> English translation here ;)
 
Great news! /me starts searching for cash to buy one :D

EDIT: Wow, beating the GTX260 in some games :) Any idea of a RRP in South Africa? I'm too lazy to search :D
 
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Landmarkpc.co.za should have prices up for the HIS pretty soon! :D
Edit: forget the French look at the pretty pictures... :p
 
The French Site review summary in Googl-english.:

This small glimpse of the performance of the Radeon HD 4850 is rather promising. Contrary to what some would have thought given its marketing early, before the official launch date, the card has a real interest. Available at a price of 159 €, it displays a value for money with which currently no Nvidia card can not fight. Without antialiasing she displayed a level of performance similar to the GeForce 9800 GTX, but it is negotiated in the best case to € 220, often more.

Once that is antialiasing turned on that map is most comfortable and this time ahead of the GeForce 9800 GTX, sometimes significantly in situations where consumption memory is important, the GeForce having more difficulty manage that. With its new GPU, AMD thus seems to have finally corrected this defect of the Radeon HD 2000 and 3000 and returned to its traditional strong point.
 
I'm in china, gonnabuy one for my friend today for 1.4k

Too bad I'm still on AGP...could only get me the 3850 AGP for also 1.4k....

How much they gonna sell in SA?
 
:D YES!! Time to look how these cards give Nvidia a ***Whipping, the 4870 is going to kill Nvidia :D

Time to shop around:cool:
 
terminator2 said:
:D YES!! Time to look how these cards give Nvidia a ***Whipping, the 4870 is going to kill Nvidia :D

Time to shop around:cool:
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AG Please! we always here these single liners. Lets wait and see on the real world and quit dreaming.
 
In any case choice is good, competition is good, and ultimately all of this is good for us. So i hope the ATI cards perform really well. It can only benefit us further :D
 
Zenbaas said:
In any case choice is good, competition is good, and ultimately all of this is good for us. So i hope the ATI cards perform really well. It can only benefit us further :D
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Nods in agreement! :) this means us poor people can actualy see some AA in Crysis!! even if it's 2xAA :p
 
sell them for 900 bucks each

those cards are actually very good for mid range computing

i would not stick them up your arse though, waste of a good card if you ask me
 
killadoob said:
sell them for 900 bucks each

those cards are actually very good for mid range computing

i would not stick them up your arse though, waste of a good card if you ask me
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True plus it would probably be painfull and leave a mark :D

man If I had R900 I would buy one from you, but alas as always I am broke :mad:
 
Glordit said:
True plus it would probably be painfull and leave a mark :D

man If I had R900 I would buy one from you, but alas as always I am broke :mad:
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I second that idea :(

So many things to buy and so little cash to buy them with.

*sigh
 
This is good news, I was going to buy the 8800GT, but seen as though it will be here soon (i Hope) I will wait it out! ;)
 
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