The HD 4670 GDDR4 is supplied in a box designed in a similar fashion to many other Sapphire products we’ve seen, with logos illustrating various features and a rendered female character wielding a weapon. The character also features on the reverse alongside an expanded list of features and information about the card. The bundle is [...]

I have always had problems endorsing the sub-hundred dollar video card. Usually, for an amount less than the video game you intend to play, you can get a card that can actually play said game, unless you really don’t care about turning the detail setting up–which, as far as I’m concerned, is the way the [...]

The mid-range video card segment has been booming lately compared to just a few years ago when the HD 2600 and GeForce 8600 series were launched by ATI and NVIDIA respectively. There was a huge gap then between the mid-range cards and the much more expensive high-end cards. This hole is being filled currently with [...]

Since the market is currently concentrated on high-end cards and the never-ending struggle over the top-performance throne, we decided to shift our attention to a card that will not cost you an arm and a leg, ATI’s mid-range HD 4670. ATI’s HD 4670 is comparable to NVIDIA’s 9500GT GDDR3, and back when it was launched, [...]

Recently we’ve been reviewing some pretty high end graphics cards, and while it’s all well and good checking out the £100 plus fair, the real money is made for the manufacturers in the budget, to mid range cards. So, if you’re looking at the current generation of ATI’s GPUs, and anything with 4 and 8 [...]

When AMD released its Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 the price/performance advantage over NVIDIA at the time was so great that we wondered if it would extend to other GPUs based on the same architecture. Inevitably AMD would offer cost reduced versions of the 4800 series and today we’re seeing the first example of that; [...]

How much are you ready to spend on a video card for your computer? Depending on what type of computer user you are the figure will be very different. Computer enthusiasts like most of us reading this site probably are prepared to put a few $100 on a good card, but for a lot of [...]

While we don’t doubt for a second that everyone would love to find themselves surrounded by the most high-end computer products, the reality is that sometimes it’s simply too expensive or there’s the plain old fact that you don’t need it. The low to mid-range market has been heating up over the past few months; [...]

When it comes to GPUs, everyone always looks to the top end cards to judge the current performance available on the market. Really though, the majority of money is made in the mid and budget range cards as that’s what everyone can afford. The main problem with these though, is often the performance doesn’t allow [...]

AMD planned the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card many months ago, but oddly enough this entry level graphics card comes to light amid the worst point drop the DOW has seen to date. It almost seems right that in a time where financial stability is uncertain that AMD would launch a [...]

ATI has been releasing new video cards on a fast pace recently with the release of the HD 4870, 4850, 4870 X2, 4670, 4650, and now the 4550 each targeting different video card segments from the high-end to the mainstream value segments. The 4870 and 4850 are the king of the hill of their respective [...]

At the time of AMD’s introduction of the ATI RV770 graphics processor and Radeon HD 4870 videocard back in mid-2008, it was also secretly working on plans to transition the same graphics processor technology into a stripped down mid-range part. The subsequent Radeon HD 4850 and the Radeon HD 4830 videocards born of that effort, [...]

Last week we took a look at a $80 mainstream ATI card, the HD 4670. This time around, we are going to look at something from the next rung down on the performance ladder — the value, or sometimes referred to as the budget, segment of the market. Released today, this is the HD 4550. [...]

The discrete graphics-card market is owned by two companies right now: NVIDIA and AMD (ATI), and both companies have had their share of successes and failures.Right now, in terms of pure technology, AMD is slightly ahead, having successfully brought in the 4-series GPUs this summer and autumn. The one missing piece from the top-to-bottom jigsaw [...]

XFX supply their 4650 in a box which gives a reasonable amount of information on the card specifications, though we do lack any detail on the cards core and memory speed. Inside the box is a selection of manuals and discs, much the same as the 4870. The same cannot be said of the bundled [...]

We previously had looked at the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and Radeon HD 4670, but if you are looking for a graphics card that’s positioned between the two and costs less, there is the Radeon HD 4650. The Radeon HD 4650 is clocked the same as the Radeon HD 4550, but is based upon the [...]

NVIDIA and ATI keep pushing the envelope for what’s possible with a graphics card. From GPU folding to ray tracing. What about if you’re just your average Joe looking to play a game? Well, luckily for you there are plenty of options to choose from. Today, Sapphire brings us their iteration of the ATI HD [...]

Back in December we looked at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC graphics card. This mid-range ATI graphics card had performed well under Linux and what separated it from the other Radeon HD 4650 graphics cards on the market was its factory overclock of 650/900MHz. While not factory overclocked beyond the RV730PRO specifications, PowerColor [...]

These days when you think video card you think high end gaming right? Well first, not everyone is a gamer and not every card is built for that purpose. Should someone who only uses their computer for media or casual internet usage spend hundreds of dollars on a blazing fast graphics card? On the other [...]

AMD’s RV730 GPU is already several months old. While the first card designs were mainly aimed at the lower end of the performance segment, many manufacturers are now offering cards designed to be used in a media PC. ATI’s awesome UVD 2 video decode engine together with the HDMI output and integrated audio devices makes [...]