Rumour control: More GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 4850 pictures and details

Posted at: 3:19am 3rd June 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

A 3DMark Vantage score from the Radeon HD 4850, and a GPU-Z screenshot from a GeForce GTX 280

Nvidia and AMD must have a love / hate relationship with big tech shows. On the one hand, they get a chance to make a big song and dance about their latest products. On the other hand, however, some of your board partners seem to be happily showing off your secret future tech to roving journalists. As a fine example, VR-Zone claims to have had a quick play with a Radeon HD 4850 and a GeForce GTX 280 while nosing around Computex in Taiwan.

The Radeon HD 4850 photos are out of focus, but they look very similar to the shots we saw earlier last month. The GPU’s stock speed is apparently 625MHz, but VR-Zone claims that this was easily raised to 700MHz, after which the card score P6466 in 3DMark Vantage. Unfortunately, we don’t know which CPU was used for testing, so we have no direct comparison to this result. However, a 512MB GeForce 9800 GTX only scored P5685 on our Core 2 Extreme QX6700 test rig in the latest issue of Custom PC.

Meanwhile, the site also claims to have snapped some good close-ups of the GeForce GTX 280, which looks remarkably similar to the GeForce 9800 GTX. The new photos also show the six-pin and eight-pin power connectors, which we first saw in some leaked photos earlier last month, as well as connectors for 3-way SLI. Perhaps more interestingly, though, VR-Zone also has a GPU-Z screenshot from the GTX 280, showing 240 stream processors at 1,296MHz, 1GB of 1,107MHz GDDR3 memory and a 602MHz core clock. There’s also a 512-bit memory bus, allowing for much more room than the 256-bit bus on Nvidia’s current top-end 9-series GPUs.