UPDATE: This information is wrong, please refer to this post for more accurate info. According to Phoronix AMD will drop Catalyst support for pre-HD 5000 Radeon Series. This will happen around the time of releasing Catalyst 12.7 driver — which can be expected in Summer. If you are still using one of those prehistoric graphics [...]

We’ve gone through all the advantages and disadvantages of SLI and Crossfire modes many times by now. We’ve even had an article on the Hydra chip present on MSI motherboards, which enables AMD and NVIDIA graphics to work in conjunction with more or less tangible results. Instead of getting straight to the point, let’s have [...]

VisionTek Products, LLC today announced the North American launch of their HD4670X2 Quad DVI discrete video card, featuring dual graphics processors. The VisionTek HD4670X2 Quad card has two (2) AMD based HD4670 GPUs and two (2) Gigabytes of DD3 memory on board. The vast majority of PCs offer only one PCI Express X16 expansion slot [...]

ATI Radeon HD 4290 Graphics Card with ECS A890GX Chipset a SolutionComing up with an power-efficient solution for the High Definition visual computing, AMD has unveiled its ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics card with chipset AMD 890GX, which in turn offers to hold DirectX 10.1 graphics on the mainboard. With ATI CrossFireX technology, it houses [...]

EliteBastards – For some time now we’ve been looking forward to OpenCL and what it can bring to the world of general purpose computing which uses a GPU for its processing power.  However, if you’re a Radeon HD 4000 series graphics board user, it appears as though you might have to revise your expectations for [...]

AMD is making a new addition to its midrange graphics card lineup today with the introduction of the Radeon HD 4770 videocard, based on the companies first 40nm GPU, the RV740. The Radeon HD 4770 strikes a balance between performance and price, coming just under the lucrative $100 mark and slotting in nicely in terms [...]

The Radeon HD 4770 is the first desktop graphics card with an RV740 GPU in 40 nanometer structure. ATI’s new card competes with the Radeon HD 4850, GeForce 9800 GT and Co. With the Radeon HD 4770, the first graphics card with “40 nanometer GPU” AMD wants to enter the crowded sector of sub 100 [...]

The mid-range market is a lucrative one, especially with the world’s economy the way it is right now. While NVIDIA has focused very much on repurposing 18-month-old G92 technology to introduce a slew of ‘new’ graphics cards, AMD has decided to tackle the market in a different way. First came the Radeon HD 4670 in [...]

2008 and 2009 have been very interesting in the world of the GPU – not because we have seen huge increases in available performance (though the GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 4890 are good cards) but because of the dramatic shift to incredibly low priced parts. It wasn’t long ago that top-end GPUs were [...]

Hot on the heels of last month’s Radeon HD 4890 release which set a new performance record for ATI as their fastest single GPU yet, the company has another new graphics card for us today, this time targeting the sub-$100 market. The new Radeon HD 4770 is the world’s first 40nm graphics processing unit, and [...]

It seemed for the longest time that ATI video cards were red-headed step child of the video card industry, that is until we began to see cards like HD4870, HD4870X, HD3870X2 to name just a few. Perhaps it was the partnership with AMD that made the difference or perhaps it just the result of having [...]

Did you think that that the HD 4890 was the last video card to come out of ATI’s HD 4000 series? Well if you did, it turns out you were wrong. Sorry about that. While the HD 4890 is likely the last high-end card in ATI’s current generation of GPUs, it is not the last [...]

It is nothing new for video card manufacturers to attempt to improve upon already proven video cards. Normally when these improvements are made the performance gain is marginal. But again, every once in a while a video card manufacturer comes out with a real gem of a video card. The Sapphire HD4770 video card is [...]

AMD is launching yet another new ATI Radeon graphics card today. And in light of the current worldwide economic conditions, along with the performance and power consumption data we’ll be presenting you on the proceeding pages, we suspect it’s going to be a welcomed addition to the company’s already potent graphics card line-up. You see, [...]

Codenamed RV740, the HD4770 is ATI’s latest GPU that’s manufactured using TSMC’s 40 nanometer fabrication process. While most other chips adopt the 55nm process, AMD have seen fit to test the water with their new chip in the highly competitive budget/performance sector of the graphics card market. A smaller fabrication had benefits that enable the [...]

Early in February we had the opportunity to show you a sneak preview of the now final product that we are testing today. The Radeon HD series 4700. Slated for a launch in late April, that article opened up a lot of eyes. See, ATI lately is aggressive in it’s product line-up, constantly adding and [...]

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 [...]

After accompanying the launch of AMD’s new mainstream RV740 GPU, and the Radeon HD 4770 part that it powers, with a look at HIS’ offering based around said SKU, today we take a look at Sapphire’s Radeon HD 4770 board, which features the exact same cooler and clock speeds as the aforementioned card. Of course, [...]

I have to admit that I love horsepower as much as the next person. Truly. There’s nothing like a big, beefy graphics card that can shred a game at 1920 resolution. But I also realize that sometimes good things come in small packages, and often the most exciting surprises lurk around the corner in the [...]

Back in October of last year, there was a flurry of excitement surrounding the launch of AMD’s Radeon HD 4830 part. While this excitement was sullied somewhat by certain boards having incorrect BIOS revisions that exposed the wrong number of Stream Processors enabled in the hardware, overall the use of a cut-down version of the [...]