ATI Radeon HD 4770: 40nm Goes Mainstream

[aevm]

Great article, Chris! Thank you.

 

[zuke]

[citation][nom]Summer Leigh Castle[/nom]I spent almost $300 on my 8800GTS 320 OC when they came out and I thought I got a great deal. Things have changed! Competition = good for the consumers![/citation]

I'm in the same exact boat as you. $279 from Newegg 2 years ago for the BFG card. I thought about getting another one to do SLI on the cheap, but I think the new middle-grade cards like the 260/270 will still blow it away for not much more $.

 

[Guest]

For my Athlon 64 X2 4400+(S939 OC 2.5GHz) would it be better to buy 4770 1GB or 4870 1GB to play games at 1920x1200?I am afraid that i will see the same fps due to CPU bottleneck.What do you think?

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

HD 4770 Crossfire review.

"According to our test, HD 4770 CrossFire brings more than 80% 3D performance improvements, superior to HD 4890 nearly 20%. When loaded by 3D tasks, the CrossFire platform sees about 80-100W power consumption increase compared with single HD 4890, but it still consumes less power than HD 4890 does"

http://en.expreview.com/2009/04/28/first-look-at-radeon-hd-4770-crossfire-benchmark.html

 

[aevm]

[citation][nom]Diagrafeas[/nom]For my Athlon 64 X2 4400+(S939 OC 2.5GHz) would it be better to buy 4770 1GB or 4870 1GB to play games at 1920x1200?I am afraid that i will see the same fps due to CPU bottleneck.What do you think?[/citation]

I think you should save more money and then upgrade several things at the same time. That is, MB/CPU/GPU. Maybe RAM too, if you only have 2GB or what you have doesn't work with the new MB. Maybe PSU too, if the new GPU makes it necessary. Anyway, start your own thread under Homebuilt Systems > New System Build and we can help you more.

 

[bustapr]

In the first page I was actually liking the open table of contents(it works pretty well and its easier to use), but why is it that after I click on a subject, the table of contents dissapears aand I have to go through the pages one by one. It seems that tom's doesn't even know how to make the good features work.

 

[bustapr]

Why didn't you guys test the 4770 that has 3200 memory clock from gygabyte?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125278

 

[cangelini]

Busta--I'm pushing for the ToC on every single page. That'd be a good replacement for the drop-down so many people hated ;-)

 

[bustapr]

Good job with the ToC cangelini.

 

[marraco]

[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom]Busta--I'm pushing for the ToC on every single page. That'd be a good replacement for the drop-down so many people hated ;-)[/citation]
Initially, I also hated the drop down, but then found that it was very practical, and used it a lot. Is necessary to have direct access to any page of the article.

I would settle for a ToC on each page. Maybe it shoud be hidden by default, but available on any page.

 

[flagoman]

i think that maybe you have a driver issue with the hd4850, i have an athlon 8450, and the ati hd4850 and fraps shows me when i play left4dead at maximun graphics options 120fps and lowers to 85 in full zombie attack at 1680*1050 in a 22inch viewsonic monitor. without aa, or af goes around 160 send you some pics if u like

 

[flagoman]

i think you have a driver issue for the ati or the amd processor, i have a amd8450 3cores and an ati hd4850 and at least fraps reports at 1680*1050 in a 22"viewsonic monitor without aa or af, around 160fps, with all video options maxed i have 120 and lowers to 85 in full zombie attack, i think you have to check out the configuration ill send pics if u like

 

[flagoman]

sorry forgot the os, windows vista home premium

 

[Guest]

nice price/performance card
ATi Radeon HD 4770 crossfired ($200) vs HD 4890 ($300)which1 will win??
xD

 

[goryachev]

I bought my 8800 GT when they only came out for $400 (in Israel)

 

[aevm]

[citation][nom]LoosedKid[/nom]nice price/performance card ATi Radeon HD 4770 crossfired ($200) vs HD 4890 ($300)which1 will win??xD[/citation]

Apparently the HD 4770 Crossfire wins, by as much as 20% in some games.
However, I suspect that the HD 4890 will win big in games that aren't optimized for Crossfire (yet).

 

[Reality Check]

Rubbish! How can Tom's get away with stating their drivers are Catalyst 9.4?? SEE THE THREAD TOPIC ON THIS IN THE GRAPHICS BOARD FORUM.

ATI/AMD directly has stated 9.4 does not and will not support any HD4770. The SOLE ONLY drivers available to the consumer are the crappy hacked versions provided OEM from the card manufacture only. The ones Sapphire provides as example are 3 times worse than running a X1950 pro on Catalyst 9.1.

Also, on ALL brands that are not the more expensive ATI reference version (that's about 10 different companies so far), the stock fan/heatsink combo surges to beyond 100% on boot and power using any OS, so the fan life on 92% of the cards available now is shortened to at least half. The only "fix" is a GPU bios correction which will not be provided to the consumer.

 

[cangelini]

Tom's didn't. Tom's tested the *other* ATI cards using Catalyst 9.4 and clearly documented the use of 8.60 Beta with the 4770--but you'd need to read the story to know that ;-)

 

[mcbowler]

Best thing about this card is when I throw it away in a year Ill only be throwing away $100.

 

[rambo117]

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]The price to performance ratio just keeps getting better and better. I'm simply amazed by this.[/citation]
agreed

 

[wavetrex]

NEWS. The price has just been reduced to $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=radeon%204770&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE
...with a 10$ MIR, that makes 89.99$

How about an award now ?

 

[commodore64]

I understand it could be little disappointing when ATI raised the tag for 10$,but I'm in shock with the harsh review! Come on, this card deserves more than one Recommended buy award.

If i were an average PC user,buying stuff with only one review, i could think, "eh, another new video card ", but this is not a revision card like NVIDIA's G92 (8800gt,9800gt,gts250)

This card will work at 1 Ghz GPU, 4Ghz memory speed with a simple BIOS flash (Vmod)!!! It will beat the hd 4850,and some games even 4870 !!

That's lots of performance for 109 $


Here is the some results, we get.With a intel core i7 965, OCZ 3x 2GB DDR3;

-3d Vantage performance :9844 (Almost same point with HD4870)
-Assassin creed 1920x1200 ulta: 61 fps.(higher than GTX 260 216, and HD4870)
-COD 4 ultra,4xaa: 79 fps (almost same with hd4870)

Incredible overclock performance, good pricing, low power consumption. I recommend anybody planing to buy new card, don't forget about crossfire as well

 

[cangelini]

Commodore, check the CrossFire story from Monday--the award was dusted back off =)

 

[tlbj6142]

Interesting, I would have assumed that the line between $100 and $200 would not have been as steep. And that $150 would have been a nice sweet spot as well (I typically aim for $125-$175 when buying a new card). But from the chart is seems purchasing stops at $100 and doesn't resume until $280. That's quite a gap.

 

[Guest]

i feel eset nod32 is quit good it does't slowdown system