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PowerColor jumps the gun, announces AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4730

by Parm Mann on 28 May 2009, 11:21

Tags: Radeon HD 4730, PowerColor (6150.TWO)

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AMD has yet to officially launch its ATI Radeon HD 4730, but PowerColor isn't waiting around and has officially announced its own version of the forthcoming card.

PowerColor's derivative, the PCS HD 4730, pictured right, sports an Arctic Cooling heatsink and fan, along with dual DVI outputs.

According to PowerColor, the card will land in stores on June 8th with a tantalising price tag of just $79.99 - not a bad number at all, considering that the card looks to be just a slower-clocked version of the impressive Radeon HD 4770.

The card's core will be clocked at 700MHz - down 50MHz from the Radeon HD 4770 - but its 512MB of GDDR5 memory will run quicker. PowerColor tells us to expect an effective memory speed of 3,600MHz - that's up 400MHz from the Radeon HD 4770's 3,200MHz - and the number of stream processors remains unchanged at 640.

If PowerColor's early numbers are right - and we've no reason to believe otherwise - the Radeon HD 4730 looks a solid mid-range solution and could bring an end to the older Radeon HD 4830 if its $80 US price tag is reflected by a sub-£70 asking price in the UK.

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Posted by borandi - Thu 28 May 2009 12:18
Bleh $80 to £70. Isn't the exchange rate back up to $1.60 to the pound, so more like £50? Please :) For GPGPU use it's a bargain… :)
Posted by blinky - Thu 28 May 2009 14:35
borandi
Bleh $80 to £70. Isn't the exchange rate back up to $1.60 to the pound, so more like £50? Please :) For GPGPU use it's a bargain… :)

Will be interesting to see what they overclock like. In principle if you could clock then to the same speed as the 4770 it should be faster than the 4770 but for less.
Posted by shaffaaf27 - Thu 28 May 2009 19:09
dont forget 15% VAT.

so wait, this is a 55nm OCed 4770, whats the point?
Posted by Hicks12 - Thu 28 May 2009 19:17
To compensate for the 4770 being in very poor supply most probably. Looks good, maybe there will be custom coolers right away? The 4770 is still waiting for some custom cooling lol.

Any news on the power useage on these? Its going to be more than the 4770 but could it be more than the 4850? It has ddr5 which uses less power right? But the higher core clocks could make it even more power hungry, i still think the sapphire 4850 vapour x is looking like the best value card especially its power performance.
Posted by shaffaaf27 - Thu 28 May 2009 19:19
ddr uses less power but 55nm.

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