Thursday, May 28th 2009
PowerColor Announces the PCS HD4730
TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, announces a new addition to HD4700 series: the PCS HD4730. The latest PCS HD4730 has 640 streaming processors, clocks at 700MHz core and 900MHz memory respectively, with the fastest ever GDDR5 memory, it supports up to 3.6 Gbps data rates. This offers an unbeatable gaming performance in its segment.
The PowerColor PCS HD4730 equipped with award-winning ARCTIC COOLING solution, increases air flow at a lower fan speed that easily dissipates heat from an optimized heat sink. The unique fan design avoids direct contact with high temperatures emanating from heat sink, extending the life cycle of the cooling fan. With PowerColor exclusive fan control technology, the fan speed can be adjusted automatically providing a perfect balance between silent operating environment and cooling performance.
"PCS HD4730 is created to be the new performance and price leader," said Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation. "If you have a limited budget but would like to have a powerful upgrade to take all games to the extreme, the PCS HD4730 is the best choice for you."
PowerColor HD 4730 is compatible with the latest DirectX 10.1, PCI Express 2.0, and ATI CrossFire X technology, ready to level up an ultimate performance to all gamers. Moreover, it offers Unified Video Decoder 2(UVD2) and built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround audio, delivering a superior visual experience.
The PowerColor PCS HD4730 will retail for US$79.99 and will be available on June 8.
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PowerColor
The PowerColor PCS HD4730 equipped with award-winning ARCTIC COOLING solution, increases air flow at a lower fan speed that easily dissipates heat from an optimized heat sink. The unique fan design avoids direct contact with high temperatures emanating from heat sink, extending the life cycle of the cooling fan. With PowerColor exclusive fan control technology, the fan speed can be adjusted automatically providing a perfect balance between silent operating environment and cooling performance.
PowerColor HD 4730 is compatible with the latest DirectX 10.1, PCI Express 2.0, and ATI CrossFire X technology, ready to level up an ultimate performance to all gamers. Moreover, it offers Unified Video Decoder 2(UVD2) and built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround audio, delivering a superior visual experience.
The PowerColor PCS HD4730 will retail for US$79.99 and will be available on June 8.
18 Comments on PowerColor Announces the PCS HD4730
This would most likely be located directly above the HD4830. I'm hoping that it really does not need two 6-pin PCI-E connectors. :P
This thing should be called HD4820 or HD4810, not HD4730! HD4730 makes it seem like way too weak of a card, when it should perform very similarly to an HD4830.
And why the hell does it need two 6-Pin power connectors? The HD4830 doesn't even need 1...:shadedshu
And why a dual-slot cooler?
And we still don't know crossfire capabilities, since ATi won't give us any information about it, or even an updated compatibility chart with the HD4770 in it so forget about the HD4730... Can we crossfire this with other RV770 cards? Can we crossfire this with other RV740 HD4700 cards?
Didn't the HD3xxx series support different-card CF?
The only time I see where mixing of this extent was possible was with the HD4350 and HD4550, and that was only possible because both cards used the same RV710 core.The concept of the card is a good one, don't get me wrong. But IMO, ATi has implemented it poorly.
4830: 575mhz
4730: 700mhz (22% more). Now if it can overclock to 850mhz stock cooling and volts, then this will be killer. Probably taking 4770 bang for the buck title.
I couldn't see any hd4830 going much higher than 700mhz under these conditions.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I was a bit confused myself when the 4770 came out, I was expecting it to perform under the 4830 yet its performance was in some cases better than the 4850?? what is going on ATI :S.
40nm chip, 128-bit GDDR5
Overclocks better
HD 4730
55nm chip, 128-bit GDDR5
Cheaper
Still not sure if the HD 4730 needs two 6-pin PCI-E connectors though. If it does, then that's pretty retarded.
The reason why they're doing this is because they're having problems with the 40nm process, hence the current low stock of HD 4770s. (And because of that, it's also the reason why there aren't custom PCBs, HSFs, etc. of the HD 4770.)
Right now, newegg has both the Sapphire and ASUS HD4850's for $85. That is a better bang for the buck than the HD4770.