For the past month there has been a news story regarding the upcoming video cards from AMD and NVIDIA pretty much every single day. More and more details are pouring in and today we have some truly interesting things to report.

AMD’s RV770, in the form of the Radeon HD 4850, will launch on June 18th with product on store shelves, according to a news story on VR-Zone. The more powerful Radeon HD 4870, which will utilize GDDR5 memory, will launch on June 25th but will not be available until July due to supply issues with the new graphics memory. The dual GPU version of the RV770 core, supposedly called the R700 under the Radeon HD 4870 X2 moniker, will come a couple of months later in Q3. AMD remains hush hush on potential pricing for the new cards, but apparently clock speeds will not break the 1GHz mark as was rumored months ago.

On the NVIDIA front, the upcoming GT200-based graphics cards have received an official product name. NVIDIA is radically breaking away from their usual confusing-as-hell naming convention with the GeForce GTX 280. With this new nomenclature, NVIDIA is removing the complicated suffixes from their product names and dropping the a digit from the number scheme. This move seems to be taking at least part of a page from AMD/ATI’s book, as the company dropped the suffixes from their product names with the launch of the Radeon HD3000 series to simplify things for customers. It is hard to say what parts of the names will change based on the information provided by Fudzilla, but it seems the next step down from the GTX 280 is the GTX 260. Since both cards carry the GTX identifier, we have to assume that all cards will be labeled GTX and only the numbers will vary, but that is just a guess.

The GeForce GTX 280 will launch in the 25th week of the year, which is smack dab in the middle of June. There are no concrete performance numbers set for the new cards from either company, so we can’t give you any information about that ;).

Source: Fudzilla, VR-Zone

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