#AMD RADEON HD 3870 GAME DEBATE SERIES#

not which current generation card is 5% better than another. That's exactly the comparison people want to make. Thanks for being so thorough in your analysis vis-a-vis older cards. lemonadesoda - Sunday, Septemlink I thought the review was great.Let's take a look at that in a little more depth. The move away from GDDR3 toward the currently ramping up and dropping in price system memory solution is quite cool. But we certainly hope that AMD continues to follow this sort of trend, as the past couple years have been very hard on the lower end of the spectrum with a huge lag between the introduction of a new architecture and its availability in the mainstream market.ДЄlso of interest is the fact that AMD has added support in the RV730 for 900 MHz DDR3. Of course, AMD is fighting back from a disadvantage, so they don't have the luxury of relying on their previous generation hardware to trickle down the same way NVIDIA can. It's great to see new parts making their way into the market rather than a bunch of old cards with slight tweaks and new names. We are quite happy to see AMD pushing it's latest generation technology out across its entire product line.

#AMD RADEON HD 3870 GAME DEBATE SERIES#

We're waiting to sort out some issues with HDCP and our latest test version of PowerDVD Ultra before confirming the support, but we know first hand that it works on the 4800 series and we see no reason that it wouldn't on the 4600 series.

To make things better, both of them include the same 8-channel LPCM support for HDMI from the 4800 series. The 4650 will chop another $10 off the 4670's pricetag.ДЄMD lists board power of the 46 at 59W and 48W respectively and obviously they're single slot (with no PCIe power required).

We won't see performance on par with the 3870 in general, but the 4670 will do some damage in certain situations, especially if AA comes into play.ДЄMD is also announcing (but we're not testing) the Radeon HD 4650 running at a meager 600MHz and using 500MHz DDR2 memory. Of these, antialiasing saw a major benefit, but we also see changes like increases in cache sizes, texturing power, and z/stencil ability. The RV730 XT is a derivative of the GPU in the 4800 series cards, and it carries over some of the benefits we saw inherent in the architecture changes. Let's have a closer look at the 4670's specs:Д¬lock speeds are a bit lower and we've got much less memory bandwidth, but the hardware has some advantages. Today's launch is pretty interesting because the 4670 has the same number of stream processors as the Radeon HD 3870 (320), which at the time of its launch was reasonably competitive in the $180 - $200 range. The Radeon HD 4670 is priced at $79, which in the past hasn't really gotten you a very good gaming experience regardless of who made the chip.

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