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Review: HIS' ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB: the best graphics card under £100?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 April 2009, 05:00 4.05

Tags: HIS Radeon 4770 512MB (midrange, Cat 9.4 press), AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), HiS Graphics

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Call of Duty 4: MW and Company of Heroes: DX10

Call of Duty 4: DX9

Mid-range - Call of Duty 4: MW 1,280x1,024 4xAA 16xAF
Sapphire HD 4830 512MBXFX 9600 GT 512MB HIS HD 4770 512MBSapphire HD 4850 512MBSapphire HD 4670 512MBPalit 9800 GT 512MB
73.358.1780.182.25074.15


Mid-range - Call of Duty 4: MW 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
Sapphire HD 4830 512MBXFX 9600 GT 512MB HIS HD 4770 512MBSapphire HD 4850 512MBSapphire HD 4670 512MBPalit 9800 GT 512MB
61.0548.9767.2569.4539.861.3


The HIS Radeon HD 4770 512MB puts on a great showing straight from the get-go, falling in just behind the HD 4850 and obliterating the HD 4670.

Company of Heroes: DX10

Mid-range - Company Of Heroes: OF 1,280x1,024 0xAA 0xAF
Sapphire HD 4830 512MBXFX 9600 GT 512MB HIS HD 4770 512MBSapphire HD 4850 512MBSapphire HD 4670 512MBPalit 9800 GT 512MB
73.0357.3584.0680.6342.3578.17


Mid-range - Company Of Heroes: OF 1,680x1,050 0xAA 0xAF
Sapphire HD 4830 512MBXFX 9600 GT 512MB HIS HD 4770 512MBSapphire HD 4850 512MBSapphire HD 4670 512MBPalit 9800 GT 512MB
56.8142.2172.1866.7231.758.59


In fact, it's even quicker than HD 4850 in Company of Heroes. If you go back to the table on page 2 you will see that it gives up around 20 per cent bandwidth to the HD 4850 but has a higher fillrate throughput. It's also conceivable - nay, likely - that ATI's engineers gave the HD 4770 a slight tweak here and there, enabling it use its bandwidth allocation with more efficiency.