While plenty of high end graphics cards have been hitting the market lately, the lower end cards have been the stars of the show lately. Nvidia and AMD have been launching a variety of mainstream cards that continue to offer gamers more and more bang for the buck.
The Radeon HD4770 may be one of the most interesting offerings in this class of graphics cards. With a price tag right around $100 (US) and features that will allow you to play some of the more demanding games with the settings turned up, it is bound to be a popular product.
Sapphire has sent over their version of the Radeon HD4770, and the promotional image above provides a quick look at this new card. Before taking a closer look at the Sapphire Radeon HD4770 512MB graphics card, let's take a closer look at some published data on it as taken from their
official product page.
Features:
» GDDR5 memory
» DirectX® 10.1
» 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
» Dual mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
» PCI Express® 2.0 support
» Geometry acceleration
» Game physics processing capability
» ATI Avivo™HD video and display technology
» Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video
» Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
» DVD Upscaling
» Dynamic Contrast
» Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
» Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology
» ATI Stream technology
Specifications:
» I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV
» Core Clock: 750 MHz
» PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
» Memory Clock: 800 MHz, 3.2Gbps
» 512MB /128bit GDDR5 memory interface
» Dual Slot Active Cooler
» HDMI compliant via dongle
» 7.1 Audio Channel Support
» Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
» Shader Model 4.1 support
Of interest is that this "budget" card comes with GDDR5 memory, something generally reserved for higher end products. In addition, the RV740 GPU is based on 40nm manufacturing technology, a first for any card.
