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Originally Posted by kingbuxton
Because it can cope with everything upto a Gtx285 and does it for £195 - and as soon as nVidia get the Gtx275 out from all partners it will drop even more and it will drag everything with it.
I don't mean the architecture is a classic - I just mean the card as it is. And that is before the partners get the non-reference versions out. It is going to whipe best part of £100 off Gtx285 over the coming month.
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Improved shaders as well - clock for clock it is faster than a 4870.
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I've read the technical brief, the core architecture is identical.
If you clocked them both the same, the 4890 pulls ahead because of the better memory management only. Clock for clock they are identical. Other changes include lower power requirements. It's merely an improved 4870 which is heavily overclocked... the advantage being it also has a lot of headroom for more overlocking. A good sample will reach 1Ghz core freqency easy.