ATI is about to present their new card Radeon 4850 and 4870 on 25 June. This will be done in eight days after the premiere of competing cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 and 280, which are officially see the light of day 17 June.

And how will be presented to the efficiency of the new card? Are not yet available benchmarki reliable, but some leaks you might guess, that there will be about 50% faster than the previous generation. We know also that ATI has finally improved performance FSAA and anisotropic filtering – their integration should no longer cause such a decline, as in R600/RV670.

The most interesting, however, is whether Radeony 4850 and 4870 (based on the RV770 core) will be able to match or exceed the GeForce GTX 260 and 280 (core GT200). NVIDIA struggled with technological problems during the transition of technology from 65 nm at 55 nm, so ATI is an important moment – the more that production in 55 mm GPU has already opanowaną for several months. And if RV770 does not prove to be the king of performance, ATI has yet to hold dwuchipowego R700. Promises to be a hot summer!