Graphic Cards 4670: reviews are in

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The new king of low-end gaming cards :ohyeah: .

But I must add, 3850 and 9600GT are still bare minimum for decent gaming and they are also amazing value for money now. Specially 3850. And it is gonna disappear from the market very soon.

ATI has set a new standard in the mainstream discrete graphics-card market by providing a lot - be it 2D or 3D - for not very much. Speaking with pragmatism, fast-paced gaming at 1,680x1,050 is now eminently possible on a £50 ($79) card, so it's good news for the consumer.

HEXUS.net - Review :: Sapphire (AMD) Radeon HD 4670: bullying the mainstream market : Page - 1/15

The direct competition price wise will be the GeForce 9500 GT, which is a nice card, yet performance wise is slapped with a proverbial trout in the face by the Radeon HD 4670... Pop in a Blu-ray disc and the GPU can decode and enhance the movie for you, it'll even lead 8 channel sound to your receiver or HD screen. Games wise you cannot ignore the fact that playing most modern games with very high image quality settings at 1280x1024 will be not a problem whatsoever. In fact most games will play fine at very decent framerates at 1600x1200 as well.

ATI Radeon HD 4670 review

With today’s introduction of the Radeon 4670, you not only get a very inexpensive GPU priced at just $79, you also get a card that’s capable of dishing out very good performance for its intended segment of the graphics market. In some cases the 4670 outran ATI’s Radeon 3850 in our testing! The card also scaled quite nicely when going from one to two cards for CrossFire (Crysis being the only exception)... The only real tweak we’d like to see ATI implement is a slightly faster, or a slightly larger fan. The Radeon 4670 doesn’t run as hot as the Radeon 4850, but it sure would be nice if the card ran another 10 degrees cooler than the reference board design does today.

ATI Radeon 4670 Performance Preview

And Nvidia pi*s in pants again :rofl:

It seems like we’re not the only one with the HD 4670. I know there are plenty of review sites with the card, but it also seems like some people at NVIDIA have a card which lead to an interesting e-mail this morning.

The e-mail pretty much said in a nutshell "Please compare the HD 4670 to the 9600 GSO and 9600 GT and not the 9500 GT, because that’s where the card is really aimed at". This was fair enough, so I took the time to do a bit of research on pricing; the HD 4670 has a launch RRP of $79 US.

A 9500 GT DDR3 card with 512MB can be had for as cheap as $64 US, but most seem to sit around the $74 US to $79 US mark. What this means is that the card sits perfectly against the HD 4670. The 9600 GSO is actually more in the $89 US price range and carries with it less memory. If you look at the 768MB version to compare against the 512MB 9500 GT, the price tends to be up over $100 US.


So, with that sorted let’s talk about the HD 4670. For a mid-range card the thing is an absolute beast. The HD 4000 series is everything the HD 3000 series should have been. High end is important, but ultimately it’s the under $100 cards that sell and it looks like the HD 4670 is a real winner. It’s clear that NVIDIA are concerned about the card. And so they should be with the performance it puts out. Sure it lacks in some features like CUDA and PhysX, but what is so important to people is how well is it going to run their games.

At the end of the day the HD 4670 is going to run every game you play better than the 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 card. AMD deserve a pat on the back because this card is really fantastic and running two in Crossfire is also great. We didn’t have any nasty problems, incompatibilities or anything like that. It ran fast from the word go. Adding a second card is going to be a cheap upgrade path for a lot of people later down the track.

Since NVIDIA already have their lineup of mid-range cards out, the only way they can combat the HD 4670 is with an aggressive price drop. We’ve seen them do it before, but today if you’re looking for a mid-range card that offers simply fantastic value for money that will let you play games at up to about 1600 x 1200 with medium settings or even 1680 x 1050 which requires slightly less power, the card is a fantastic option for people looking for value.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 in Crossfire :: TweakTown


And this one here sums it best

AMD's new HD 4670 has successfully positioned itself in the sub $100 range offering great price/performance, performance/watt and sufficient gaming power for casual gamers. The card which uses a chip that is derived from the RV770 will easily let you play all titles at resolutions up to 1280x1024. If you plan to go beyond that you will have to sacrifice some detail settings. Compared to the previous generation product, the HD 3650, the performance has more than doubled, especially at higher resolutions. AMD has also included all the media PC features that we know from the HD 4800 Series like UVD2, HDMI via adapter, integrated 7.1 audio and HDCP. Together with the low fan noise of the Powercolor heatsink this makes the card an excellent candidate for a media PC which will occasionally be used for some gaming. If you are just looking for a media PC card, the HD 3450 still remains your best choice - or you wait for AMD's upcoming RV710 which will be released later this year.

Compared to NVIDIA's offering in this market segment, the HD 4670 can easily take on the GeForce 9400 GT and 9500 GT. Only the GeForce 9600 GSO and GT are faster for less than 100 dollars. Price/performance wise the HD 4670 is the card of choice if you are looking for the best bang for the buck and don't want to buy the GeForce 9600 GT.

techPowerUp :: Powercolor PCS HD 4670 512 MB Review :: Page 1 / 30
 
Woah .. seems like two of them in crossfire beats even the 4850. They say that fast paced gaming is now possible at 1680x1050 using this card.

Any chance of price drops on the GTX 260? :D
 
Well I just noticed a very interesting thing about HD 4670. After introducing GDDR5 in graphics card with 4870, AMD for the first time is introducing DDR3 in graphics cards.

For a while now we've been seeing either DDR2 or GDDR3 on most graphics cards. The future standard looks to be GDDR5 at this point (with 4 being skipped due to its not-that-much-better-ness when compared to GDDR3), but currently board makers are faced with an interesting situation: DDR3 is coming down in price due to its adoption on the desktop.

The push to GDDR3 was to fill the need in the graphics industry for faster DRAM, so it came along a little ahead of DDR3 and has served us well for the past few years. DDR3 is now finding traction in the desktop world and prices are starting to come down as every major platform will support DDR3 going forward. Performance is apparently fairly similar at the speeds DDR3 can hit (we don't really have a way of testing this ourselves right now, but this is what AMD is telling us), so price is really the only differentiator.

AnandTech: AMD Radeon HD 4670: Ruling from Top to Bottom
 
indian pricing would add loads of tax to it... he he...

else.. its a nice addition and a steal at 80 dollars.. approx 3600 bucks...
 
Great move by DAMMIT. This looks like best solution for average user's gaming nirvana on budget.

OT : 11 posts and no comment from our own ATi-boy muzux2 yet? Now that's something different!! :P
 
hmm... this might interest some of my friends on a student's stipend like me :D... too bad I probably won't have any luck pawning off my 8600gt after this though.
 
I'm on the Green Team for at least 2 more years, but great news for me. Am a AMD fanboi since their Athlon days and I really think they need more successes like this!

nVidia Big pfffft 2, where art thou :P ?
 
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