14 DAY TRIAL // There is little time left until we see the new Radeon HD 4830 card on display, as ATI seems determined to have it released at the beginning of October. The new card is built on the well known RV770 chip and comes with a 256-bit memory interface. Voices over the web say that the new graphics card will actually be made by AIBs themselves, which means that we're going to witness the launch of differently clocked boards and probably also differently featured.
The RV770LE graphics card will come with 512MB of memory and will have 480 stream processors. Sources say that the card will differ from the Radeon HD 4850 solution on the pipeline numbers, as the graphics card manufacturer plans to lower the pipeline count on it. There are no specific details on the amount of branches that will be cut, yet the card will end up with less pipes than Radeon 4850 and 4870.
When it comes to pricing, the card should fit just well on a position below Radeon HD 4850 and above HD 4670, but the company hasn't come up with a specific price just yet. We should also note the fact that Radeon HD 4830 is expected to fight the NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT and GeForce 9600GT cards, and the 9800GT's are placed a little over €100 ($150).
AMD still plays silent when it comes to its future products, feeding us only small pieces of information from time to time. Even so, other small pieces manage to leak to the Web. The guys from VR-Zone published on their site a a small slide which lists the Radeon 4830 card besides the 4850 and 4870, showing at the same time the ASIC variant of each graphics solution. As the launch date nears, enthusiasts with low budgets won't have too much to wait to see what this card can do.