Monday, April 29th 2013
AMD Readies Radeon HD 7730 Graphics Card
In an attempt to plug a hole in its product stack between the Radeon HD 7670 and the Radeon HD 7750, AMD could launch a new Radeon HD 7700 series SKU, the HD 7730. Based on the 28 nm "Cape Verde" silicon, the chip could feature 448 stream processors based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture, 28 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 1 GB of memory.
An MSI-branded HD 7730 is already doing rounds in the Chinese local market, indicating the SKU is designed for retail, and not just the OEM channel. The MSI card features 800 MHz core clock speed, with its memory clocked at 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective). With the HD 7730, AMD could also be going after NVIDIA's GeForce GT 640. It remains to be seen if the HD 7730 is a global product. The MSI card features retailer stickers from Taiwan-based retailers.
The source put the card through a few tests.
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3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11 ("entry" and "performance" presets)
3DMark (new)
Source:
Coolaler.com
An MSI-branded HD 7730 is already doing rounds in the Chinese local market, indicating the SKU is designed for retail, and not just the OEM channel. The MSI card features 800 MHz core clock speed, with its memory clocked at 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective). With the HD 7730, AMD could also be going after NVIDIA's GeForce GT 640. It remains to be seen if the HD 7730 is a global product. The MSI card features retailer stickers from Taiwan-based retailers.
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32 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon HD 7730 Graphics Card
In fact the contact no. on the sticker is the MSI Taiwan customer service hotline.
Thus I believe it's not China only SKU.:)
I'm betting on it being Richland hybrid CF-able... Seeing as how AMD is already planning on packing hybrid CF on Richland mobile with GCN GPUs up to HD 8730M...
Another thought is that this is a new chip. AMD likes to do the doubling thing with it's low and midrange chips - if you look at the 7770, 7870, both full feature chips, they've got 640 and 1280 chips. AMD/ATI did similar things with the 5000 series - the 5670 ran at 400 shaders, the 5770 ran at 800 shaders, and the 5870 had 1600 shaders. (This isn't really unique to AMD, though - it's a nice way of creating a differentiated product stack)
Also, as I've said, for mobile it's pretty much confirmed for Hybrid CF w/ GCN:
www.msi.com/product/vga/R7730-1GD5V1.html
Whatever this card ends-up (either Cape Verde or Bonaire) here in the States it will be a $50-75 with rebates in few weeks. The reference card's will be DDR5, but soon or right after they’ll be DDR3 and $50. I mean 7790's MSRP'd for $150, right now a nice MSI R7790-1GD5/OC is $110 –AR$25. What I'd say it would be interesting to see Bonaire get pinned AIB's to half-height PCB's and 50-60W TDP.
Lastly whatever Intel does for graphics for Haswell's with eDRAM, I don’t see it competing with the 7730.