Excellent and congratulations!

Be glad you opted for the less expensive card. ATI's 40nm based cards are scheduled to debut at the end of March and the RV790 based card (4900?) will no doubt have a downward influence on the prices of 4850X2 cards...

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AMD RV790 and RV740 in 40 nm from March 2009 on
Nvidia used the still ongoing Consumer Electronics Show to establish two new high-end products, namely GTX 285 and GTX 295, and thus is back at the top. The fact that AMD will not keep it like this should be obvious, and that is why we have inquired at a, in the past very reliable AMD power, about what things AMD would able to come up against Nvidia with.

Spontaneously two names fell into this conversation: RV740 and RV790. The former is a well-known in the rumor mill, VR-Zone has already unmasked the specifications of the chip, and using the tape-out, you could also conclude that the RV740 would come in spring.
The chip will be the successor to the RV730, although it could still remain at the market some time, and will redefine AMD's middle class. In things of performance the strongest model will move up to HD 4830 and HD 4850.

Large uncertainty on the other hand about an update on the performance segment. Would AMD hold the RV770 current until the RV870 or put an update between, which is quite pushing depending on the launch of the RV870, concerning that Nvidia will send a distinctly modified GT200 in persona of the GT212 into the race in the second quarter.
The rumors included everything from a RV770 with better frequency to a RV770 that had to more SIMD units (960 SPs, 48 TMUs), and also the codenames were shuffled: Super RV770, RV775 and RV790.

According to our source, AMD's next performance chip will be called RV790, enter the market as HD 4900, and be crafted in 40 nm like RV740. There is still silence about the amount of stream processors. But we can assure that there will be more than with the RV770, so that the RV790 will not just be a half-hearted frequency update.
Both chips, RV740 and RV790, are announced for March. Though a launch within the CeBIT would be suggestible, no one wanted to determine the date yet.

We will keep you informed.


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AMD's RV790 und RV740 samples in circulation
Recently we reported about the probable specifications and possible launch dates of RV790 and RV740. As we could learn from AMD-internal sources, first samples of the RV790 are in operation for several days now. The first RV740 examples exist a bit longer.

Before we enter into the various specifications, we want to point out that these are "engineer samples" and so the values of the final cards can respectively still change. But the past teaches us that the final clock frequencies are mostly in range of the samples.

Accordingly, the current RV790 samples work with 750 MHz on the chip and are equipped with 1024 MiB big, 900 MHz fast Qimonda GDDR5 memory, which is bound to a 256 Bit wide interface as unsual.
AMD's RV740 chips also do some testing rounds eagerly. Here samples with 700 MHz core frequency are going around – there are still experiments with the memory. So AMD bets, as suggested in face of the 128 Bit wide interface, on GDDR5 memory, too. This is between 512 and 1024 MiB wide and runs with 800 to 900 MHz.

Because the clock rates do just barely differ from the ones of the respective predecessors (RV770 and RV730), we suggest that the performance additions are achieved with more working units. The RV740's last status was 640 stream processors, 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs. We still grope in the dark with the RV790.


So I imagine the 1gig flavor of this new RV790 (HD 4900) based card will debut somewhere around $275-300 with the 512meg variety anywhere between $200-250.