Hot on the heels of last month's Radeon HD 4890 release which set a new performance record for ATI as their fastest single GPU yet, the company has another new graphics card for us today, this time targeting the sub-$100 market.The new Radeon HD 4770 is the world's first 40nm graphics processing unit, and although it's not designed to set any speed records like the flagship 4890, the 4770 aims to deliver the best possible value in a neat cost-effective package.
It has become common practice for both ATI and Nvidia to make their initial migration to a new design process using a mid-range or even low-end GPU, allowing time for refinement before they push it to high-performance parts. That said, the Radeon HD 4770 is far from a simple affair as the GPU has a transistor count of 826 million, or just 14% less than the Radeon HD 4890, ATI's most complex GPU yet.
View: ATI Radeon HD 4770 review
You are mistaken.
I know of hybrid crossfire but I don't know its extent, which is why I asked this question. For example, I can CFX a 4850 with my 4870 should I see reason.
http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/139/...es/Image_01.jpg
The ones being sold dont have those heatsinks on them they have smaller ones. also the card barely uses more then what the pcie slot gives.
Have you not noticed that many cases have little plastic slots near the front of the case?
There use to be full-length cards (many of them ISA) that would stretch from one end of the case to the other.
Most cards now are a lot smaller than they use to be.
In theory it should clock down quite a bit and achieve similar temps as the 4670...that's the main reason I have one (I'd bump up to the next level, but temperatures and power consumption are higher than I'd like).
http://www.techspot.com/review/163-radeon-hd-4770/page5.html
You do know we're talking about a graphics card, right?
I think asking whether a $100 dollar card will play Crysis is a very valid question.
http://www.techspot.com/review/163-radeon-hd-4770/page5.html
Incorrect. Removing the CPU bottleneck is the best way to test, as it shows the pure performance of the card. Most cards will scale back in a pretty similar way with slower CPUs
One thing that concerns me though is the quality of ATI drivers. My last ATI card was back in pre-Vista days and drivers weren't great, not read up on whether they've improved any.
All in all, it's a nice and cheap package. AMD has done an amazing job with this video card. It's perhaps the best 128-bit video card around. Makes you wonder though, will AMD drop the prices of their other video cards? Namely the HD 4830 which, in about every case, is outperformed by the HD 4770. Ask anyone and they'll tell you that 4830 > 4770.
Its $100 on ebay.com
Its £100 on ebay.co.uk
Still scamming the UK, nice one ati...
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