Even though I'm afraid of the quality and/or heaviness of AMD drivers, I think I'll make the 4870 mine as well.

On a sidenote, wouldn't it be better to wait for the GDDR5 cards? What would the pricetag be of those GDDR5 cards be anyways?

uhm current HD4870 cards have 512Mb GDDR5 ;)

The Radeon HD 4870 & 4850: AMD Wins at $199 and $299
 

As for the new business, the Radeon HD 4870 is not only based on an efficient architecture (both in terms of performance per area and per watt), it is an excellent buy as well. Of course we have to put out the usual disclaimer of "it depends on the benchmark you care about," but in our testing we definitely saw this $300 part perform at the level of NVIDIA's $400 GT200 variant, the GTX 260. This fact clearly sets the 4870 in a performance class beyond its price.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=1

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 in Crossfire
 

Given the level of excitement the HD 4850 left, not only with us, but also gamers and enthusiasts all over the world, the HD 4870 quickly became extremely anticipated by people. Will it beat the GTX 260? - How much faster than the HD 4850 is it? - Can it out-perform the GTX 280? - How does Crossfire scale?

These are all questions that we want answered, and today we intend to have answers for all of them. On paper the HD 4870 looks to be the right card for a lot of people. On the internet, looking at early prices it also seems to be the right one. Ultimately though, what it’s going to come down to is performance.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/148...ire/index.html

Seen a first-price 4870 on the web at 219€, and it is mentioned as having GDDR3. :shrug:

I think manufacturers are able to choose between GDDR3, GDDR4 and GDDR5

I think the listing was incorrect:)

http://geizhals.eu/?cat=gra16_512&so...+&pixonoff=off

I think all GPU manufacturers skipped GDDR4. But yeah, AMD's chip is ocmpatible GDDR3 and 5, like the GTX series from nVidia, iirc.

AMD Radeon HD 4870 graphics processor
 

You can almost hear the fanboys vibrating with excitement over the Radeon HD 4800 series. The buzz has been building for weeks. For the first time in quite a while, AMD would seem to have an unequivocal winner on its hands. Read on for our in-depth take on this impressive new GPU.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14990

Single HD4870 beats GTX 280? :o