Radeon HD 4750 Previewed, Performs Closer to HD 4850

[r9]

Missing the point: If you already won the battle, why are you still fighting?

That is not fighting that is making money. You have 128bit card ( with thin PCB- AKA very cheap to make) loaded with damaged cores (with disabled shaders 160 to be exact) what are you gonna do trow them in the garbage I don`t think so.

 

[PCpraiser100]

That is not fighting that is making money. You have 128bit card ( with thin PCB- AKA very cheap to make) loaded with damaged cores (with disabled shaders 160 to be exact) what are you gonna do trow them in the garbage I don`t think so.

Good point r9, as well as AMD needs all the stocks they can get before NVIDIA kicks off with GDDR5 memory.

 

[leonard_222003]

Good point r9, as well as AMD needs all the stocks they can get before NVIDIA kicks off with GDDR5 memory.

This is a mistery why Nvidia didn't adopt GDDR4 or 5 in top solutions , could it be because they are fighting ( again ) with money making from lawsuits Rambus.
I bet you this is the reason they didn't put some gddr5 in GTX280 so they have a better case with rambus and Ati paid to rambus what was need it so they had acces to latest memory types.

 

[WhiteLotus]

any eta?

 

[wolf]

OMG, she retains 16 ROPS!

this may be a prelude to a 1280SP 32 ROP 40nm card that keeps a 256-bit GDDR5 bus to keep costs low....

 

[suraswami]

Missing the point: If you already won the battle, why are you still fighting?

Killing the left overs

 

[ap4lifetn]

Missing the point: If you already won the battle, why are you still fighting?

even though everyone else answered...no one seemed to mention this one

they are fighting so they don't end up like nvidia

 

[spearman914]

Wow, much better performance than i expected!!

 

[Hayder_Master]

nice performance with 128bit

 

[ShadowFold]

Shorter, revised PCB, revised core and a good cooler. Looks good to me. I hope these will be cheap, I'm talking 100-120$.

 

[rodneyhchef]

They may have, but making an RV770LE-based HD 4830 costs more than the RV740 on this card, not to mention the lesser number of memory chips required due to the narrower memory bus (compensated by data-rate).

I see 8 memory chips on this card. Maybe just because it's an engineering sample?

 

[3870x2]

They may have, but making an RV770LE-based HD 4830 costs more than the RV740 on this card, not to mention the lesser number of memory chips required due to the narrower memory bus (compensated by data-rate).

My man... Seems you have infinite knowledge. Does this mean they might discontinue the 4830 in favor of the RV740 series chips?
Ever since the 3xxx series came out, I was always hoping for a 3950, 3970, etc...

Also, still yet, if they have currently won on that front, I would move on to win in another department (IE high end), and whenever nv threatens mid-range, start the battle again. Seems they are beating a dead horse, when there are plenty of other horses to....w/e, you know what I mean.

 

[newtekie1]

My man... Seems you have infinite knowledge. Does this mean they might discontinue the 4830 in favor of the RV740 series chips?
Ever since the 3xxx series came out, I was always hoping for a 3950, 3970, etc...

Also, still yet, if they have currently won on that front, I would move on to win in another department (IE high end), and whenever nv threatens mid-range, start the battle again. Seems they are beating a dead horse, when there are plenty of other horses to....w/e, you know what I mean.

I wouldn't count nVidia out of the mid-range market. Their products are able to compete performance wise, just not price wise. But a price drop would solve that issue easily, and they would be right back in the fight. And with the new GTS250(9800GTX+) and GTS240(9800GT+), costs should be reduced on these cards, which should bring the price cuts nVidia need to get back in the fight in this section. And you have to remember, this is probably the most important section in the industry, the most money is made on the low-mid range cards.

 

[Aevum]

anyone has the power numbers on this ?
it looks good for a HTPC, but if it sucks up more then 100 watt, it might be somewhat problematic,