AMD's 40nm ATI Radeon HD 4770 outed, slated for May release?
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted April 20th 2009 4:20PM
posted April 20th 2009 4:20PM
Ever since we saw the glowing review AMD's ATI Radeon RV740 prototype received, we've been looking forward to the day that the company would make one of these 40nm wonders available. It looks like that day might be close at hand -- according to these purloined slides, a little something called the ATI Radeon HD 4770 is due to make the scene next month in the $99 price point. This handsome lad sports GDDR5 memory, DirectX 10.1 support, a 750 MHz clock speed, a memory clock of 800 MHz using a 128-bit memory bus, a frame buffer size of 512 MB, and much, much more. Curious? Of course you are. Check the slides out below for all of the glorious details.
[Via Tom's Hardware]
[Via Tom's Hardware]
$99 isnt that really cheap, looks like a good card
damn it engadget, where is the joke about "old card/new sticker", and "same card/ new sticker??" joke ati made
heres the pic engadget didn't link
http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/20090414013935_8_1,0101-205977-6134----jpg-.html
Actually, I did link to that pic... check out the gallery.
So the 4870 is worse than the 4770?
DAMNIT AMD! JUST CALL IT THE 4970, FOR GOD'S SAKE
@RoboDan: No, the 4770 is actually a step below the 4850 in performance. A small step, but a step. Not sure why it needs a dual slot fan though.
You crazy? $99 for a video card is cheap.
I don't think this is that expensive Alex.
$99.00 for performance on a card matching that of a $200.00 card form its competitors or its own lineup is a great deal.
If this was available in other sectors. I'd be really pleased. Like buying a $500,000 house for $250,000 without having to live in Detriot. Honestly, I'd like to buy a car for $10,000 that performs like $20,000.00 car too or a $20,000.00 car that performs like a $40,000.00 car.
I believe he meant to say "$99; isn't that really cheap?" Just had some bad grammar goin on.
"Recession friendly..." LOLZ!
Which is better...this or the Nvidia 280 added to a Hewlett Packard Quad Core with 4Gb Ram?
I already know either will run Crysis on my rig..but which kicks more ass for the money?
Uhh... the 280 costs over four times as much.
Right, the 280 costs four times as much, and I think it would be better to get 4 of these than one 280, because this is pretty good already. But really the better thing would be two 4870s or a 4870x2.
I didn't know you could call a hewlett packard a "rig".
AMD ftw
!
ATI...
AMD owns ATI. They're one in the same.
not cheap but nice performance for the money !
Just give it few hours. ;)
All should have learned by now that ATI (or AMD) never sell at initial price - very shortly prices fall down considerably.
Not sure what you game on, but a gaming grade graphics card is usually $150 plus. This card follows the AMD staple of Bang for your Buck. It is not great, but for $99 it will do far far better than any other card under $100.
$99 sounds good to me. hopefully this runs cooler than my Gforce 8800 GTS
$99 is cheap compared to some other high ripoff prices of other graphics cards...
(read: NVidia)
I'll have to wait for real benchmarks to believe it.. with a 128-bit memory bus I would think it would be crippled compared to the 4850, but if these benches are correct.. then it outperforms the 8800gt/9800gt better than the 4850 does, which wouldn't make sense at all.
memory bus width means nothing with GDDR5, if GDDR3 provided only 50GB/s bandwith with 128bit bus, then GDDR5 provides 2 times that, totalling 100GB/s.
It will be slightly slower that the 4850 according to early press. But it will be slightly faster than the 4830 and most likely will replace the 4830 in the AMD line up.
GDDR5 runs at four times its rated speed. It can run slower (but why would they want to?) and still beat G/DDR3 in performance.
It is standard AMD proceedure. The sub-$100 market was the last that received an update. And just to clarify the HD 4850 kills 9800/8800 GT. The HD 4850 is the reason that the 9800 GTX was redesigned and re-released as the 9800 GTX+. And true to form, the pricing war between the HD 4850 and 9800 GTX+ is the reason why both are now $129 to $150.
Ah, you guys are right, i always thought the 4850 used the same GDDR5 memory that the 4870 did and I overlooked it on the spec sheet..
But still, those benches, compared to benches I have seen in the past for the 4850 vs 9800GT don't seem right at all, unless changes in firmware have made some significant performance boosts in AMD's GPUs.
exciting!
AMDs processors are terrible..just saying.
AMD processors are not terrible at all. They do not perform as well as a core i7 but they are up to par against the core 2 quads. Most people won't even know the difference in performance if they are just web browsing, watching Hulu, doing some casual gaming, etc.
your terrible...just saying
I might be daft but why on earth would the marketing department let those images be made like that?
Red draws images of heat and fire in people's minds.
Smoke brings images of fire and heat as well.
Heat in a video card is a terrible feature. Had they simply made the smoke blue it would make much more sense. Of course, ATI's logo is red so I'll give them some slack if they wanted to stick with the family branding design.
You're forgetting that stuff on fire looks cool.
*sets own PC on fire*
Maybe it's time to upgrade from my nVidia GeForce 7600 GT?
check Neweggs open box specials. I got a Sapphire 4850 unused, in perfect condition, it's been running over a year now and I got it for an amazing $99. Outperforms this 4770, if I'm reading the press release right. It's hella fast and doesn't choke on CoD or FSX
maybe its time to upgrade from my x800xt
Yes, yes it is.
Alternatively you can get gf9600. Already available from many manufacturers. Not bad card.
But I'd rather wait for benchmarks. If the baby really comparable to 9800gt, then it's a great deal.
@JJ
sorry dude thats an AGP...
were in the PCI express era.
Maybe it's time to upgrade my GeForce 4 MX
Maybe it's time to upgrade from my Riva TNT2...
Seriously, I've got to do that.
God AMD's graphics cards are so amazing..the price to performance ratio is ridiculous!!!
Fudzilla is saying it'll be released on April 28th:
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13258&Itemid=1
Then again, they got their info from a Japanese site with thoroughly dodgy performance graphs that seems to have taken their article down now.
That's not bad at all for a hundred dollar card.
Me likey
Which direction is the card moving again? Mmmmm, gotta love that "design school" photoshopping... Oh yeah, there's an article... brb
I've already decided that I am buying it. Based on the leaked performance numbers (90-99% as fast as a 4850), and max 80W power draw, this should be exactly what I want.
This will be the first time a GPU is on a smaller process node than cpu that I can think of
Although intel has 32nm samples it wont be out until late Q4/early 2010