HIS Radeon HD 4770 Makes Early Appearance

[opethian]

HIS Radeon HD 4770 Makes Early Appearance
AMD's newest line of desktop graphics cards in the making, Radeon HD 4700, will be launched in weeks to come. The Radeon HD 4770 model in particular, is the company's move to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GT, while at some highly competitive price-points. Earlier in February, a sample made its way to Guru3D, which revealed quite a bit about the SKU. It looks like AMD's partners, at least HIS, is ready with its HD 4770 card, according to a press-shot leaked by Chinese website ITOCP.

The pictures show the card to feature a PCB visibly identical to the reference PCB candidate spotted on the Guru3D sample, while featuring a company-designed cooler. The cooler consists of a GPU block from which metal fins project radially, on which a fan is present, decked with a fancy shroud. Also pictured are the box design, and package contents. The common features of the Radeon HD 4770 are known to be: 40 nm RV740 GPU, 640 stream processors, 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface, and CrossFireX support. This card features 512 MB of memory. The price of this card is not known, though AMD reportedly set a US $99 target SEP price for the Radeon HD 4770.

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Source: ITOCP

 

[opethian]

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 Pictured, Tested
As we head towards the launch of AMD's newest GPU, the ATI Radeon HD 4770, things certainly seem to be looking good from what we have seen of the sub-$100 accelerator so far. After the recent exposé of the HIS HD 4770, it's time now for the one from Gigabyte.

The card features an identical overall design to the one from HIS, indicating that the cooler is a standard reference design, not what we had seen from the company presentation of HD 4770, showing a rather visually-appealing cooler. The card features 512 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit interface, 640 stream processors, and DirectX 10.1 compliance. Taiwanese website CoolPC put the card through a round of 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, and FurMark. The testbed consisted of an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor and 4 GB of DDR2-800 memory. The card secured 12,042 points at 3DMark06, and P7408 at 3DMark Vantage. After 350 seconds of FurMark stability test, the GPU temperatures were tipping 72 degrees Celsius, with the fan running at 42% speed. Here's one card to look out for.

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http://www.coolpc.com.tw/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=30457

Source: CoolPC Taiwan

 

[ubuntu83]

^Just look at the slide. LOLz

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[Chugi]

Too true dude.

Another punch to nvidias gut this will be.

 

[ubuntu83]

full review @ http://en.expreview.com/2009/04/24/first-review-of-radeon-hd-4770-99-monster.html/16

 

[Necrokiller]

Way to go ATI. But Im still positive Nvidia will have something competitive to offer..they always do.

 

[abdulrahim]

Way to go ATI. But Im still positive Nvidia will have something competitive to offer..they always do.

They should give something positive otherwise they r gone.

 

[deltree]

have u guys noticed it somehow outruns the nvidia wen it comes to 8x aa?

 

[Necrokiller]

^Just look at the slide. LOLz

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Hahaha I love that slide

They should give something positive otherwise they r gone.

Total average is still less than Nvidia's CURRENT offering.

 

[devildante99]

The 4xxx series handles AA very nice, and nvidia doesn't, e.g in watchmen with AA i get 15-20FPS while without it i get 45-50FPS. Thats a huge difference.

 

[reaper]

4770 seems preety strong ATI is really reving it up

n slides rock ,, really show ,, what ATI and Nvidia are about

 

[Necrokiller]

The 4xxx series handles AA very nice, and nvidia doesn't, e.g in watchmen with AA i get 15-20FPS while without it i get 45-50FPS. Thats a huge difference.

True...ATi takes the lead at 8xAA..maybe smething about their architecture that it handles better...but at 2xAA and 4xAA Nvidia is still better.