Beans - All AMD Radeon HD 4890 prices set to drop massively?

[misae]

The 4870 is just a lower binned 4890 chip, so I'm guessing it's just a case of stock.

Apparently the 4890 is re-engineered to handle a higher voltage and therefore allow more headroom for clocking so it is not exactly the same GPU. However, I believe, if AMD/ATI wanted to they could lower voltage and sell the 4890 as a 4870 GPU instead.

The chip that powers the ATI Radeon HD 4890 is, however, a new one, with changes to the physical design to facilitate higher clock speeds. This is why the chip has the new designation (RV790).

Dave Baumann Product Manager AMD - Guru3D interview

[Brewster0101]

Anyone realise this is because of the demand for 4770's. 4770's have come into the market so strong that retailers are seeing stock flying of the shelve but not so many of the 4870 and 4890. There is more profit in selling a 4890 over a 4770, even enough profit to drop prices this low...

This trend will go one of two ways. 4770 price will go up or 4890 will find a price at around £140 - £150, and then another problem comes in the fact that two 4770's out perform a 4890 so people will still be buying a 4770 and waiting to their budget or needs to buy another one....

4770 is the magic number boys and girls.