HIS Launches World’s First 4GB HD 7850
 

The HD 7850 4GB IceQ Turbo 4GB features a massive amount of memory, higher clock speeds, leading edge overclocking capabilities and upgraded components.

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Why? Just, Why? There's no way a 7850 would have the power, even in Crossfire to fill up 4GB of VRAM....

8192MB texture packs @ 4k of course. :haha:

IMO, you'll see a lot of these cards in the next while as the current generation hangs around longer than usual....

Yes, I suppose they have to keep coming up with gimmicks till the new ships dock.

It's just a fancy number to dupe consumers who don't know any better into spending more money. 4GB must be better than 2GB, right?

Now, what they could do is launch Crossfire/SLI on a stick for each core. Have a twin-7850, twin-7870, twin-7950 card, etc, all at different price points, with efficient coolers, and slightly cheaper than buying 2x the respective cards.

That may be something worth looking at.

It will zero real world impact on anything. If it comes at the same price as a 2gb in may be a selling point, otherwise its a moot point.

It's to drum up sales for those who aren't very informed, thinking they NEED 4GB vRAM while running at 1080p or lower resolutions...

I would think that this would help in high-resolution/multi-monitor set-ups?

But here's the problem, even 2x 7850's will have difficulty pushing out enough pixels to keep 4GB worth of screen real estate occupied.