Exclusive: AMD Radeon HD 3400 Series Coming

[muk]

Our team in Taiwan has managed to obtain some additional information concerning the soon to be announced AMD Radeon 3400 HD product line. Read about it here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/03/amd_radeon_hd_3400_series_coming/index.html

 

[Onus]

A 64bit buss? Hmmm, and people rag[ged] on the 7600GT for only being 128bit...

The half-height sounds like a custom job for those little Dell heater-boxes.

 

[teh_boxzor]

what do you expect its probably going to end up as an oem card. or god forbid a competitor to the 8500gt.

 

[Evilonigiri]

64-bit bus? That has to be OEM.

 

[bfellow]

Ooh is this gonna be the 9600GT competitior?

 

[zenmaster]

These are clearly not "Enthusiast Cards".

However, they should fit nicely into Retail systems with weak PSUs and limited cooling.

Combine this with the upcoming feature for AMD to combine the power of the built-in GPU with an add-on GPU and you get a mild uptick in performance.

Mind you, I don't see anyone who visits this site and designs a custom build to select one of these cards. However, the Millions who shop CirCuit City and BestBuy for their PCs, might have a nice little card to speed up solitaire.

If AMD can sell a large number of these, even at $2-$3 profit each, it can help their bottom line.

 

[ro3dog]

for tge price ,one will replace my 7600gt in my htpc

 

[GoldenEye4ever]

I guess AMD/ATI has given-up competing with NVidia.

(zenmaster) is right, if they sell a bunch of these cards as OEM to Dell/HP/etc... at a small markup, it'll help them i guess

 

[nightscope]

I guess AMD/ATI has given-up competing with NVidia.

(zenmaster) is right, if they sell a bunch of these cards as OEM to Dell/HP/etc... at a small markup, it'll help them i guess

Who gave you that idea? It's just releasing a product to compete in the lower-end line, doesn't mean that they're not going to compete in the high-end.

 

[Can Not]

This suks, I haet it wen low ind prawducks have bad specs.

 

[wrazor]

So, any guesses if these cards(34X0) are meant to be crossfired with IGP of amd?? Are these cards going to be as good trick as 38X0 were??
If they give an ohk performance of DX10 @ around 70$ :d I am all for it. Who is here looking forward to these cards??(8400 and 8500 disappoint me,hope these dont )

 

[zenmaster]

Oh, Looking at the specs, they are going to be real low end performance. I'm wagering 8400 level performance.

Definitely not Crysis Quality :>>

They will simply be very cheap options to toss into Retail systems without requiring the OEM builders to redesign the case for cooling or up the GPU. Meanwhile, not only will they be better than the integrated GPU, they will get to add the limited power of the integrated GPU.

For all of you WoW fans, it's likely a great setup.
For the folks buying $100+ cards, it's not your cup of tea.
If you are buying $200+ cards, it will be like cyanide in your veins :>

 

[jason_jinx]

Good for low end pc's that dont really need graphics but could run a game if it had to. Its nice to see them coming out with cards for all price ranges.

 

[macer1]

LOL ppl are trashing the low end cards.

these will sell between 75-150$

if you want some performance "splurge" and get a 3850 for $ 170

for the price it will do whats it ment to do. Spread sheets and duel monitors.

Hate to break it to you but the "performance" GPU market is a VERY small market compared to the business gpu computer market.

and i would take this over integrated graphics ANY day.

 

[cruiseoveride]

Who gave you that idea? It's just releasing a product to compete in the lower-end line, doesn't mean that they're not going to compete in the high-end.

haha, the 3870 is the lower-end

 

[pchoi04]

I think this is the stuff that gets readers upset. We get early information on card like the low end 3400, which theres nothing wrong with, but THG happens to be one of the last major hardware sites to review an 8800GTS (G92). So... I dont know what to say.

 

[sgriffin]

The 2 pictures of the low-profile card with the full-height bracket are marked 3470 and 3450, but it looks like the back and front of the 3450. That's the only card that's supposed to be low-profile.

 

[GoldenEye4ever]

Who gave you that idea? It's just releasing a product to compete in the lower-end line, doesn't mean that they're not going to compete in the high-end.

I just meant that AMD/ATI really needs to make some money, hopefully now they will.

 

[justinmcg67]

I'm shocked that the 3470 will come with GDDR3. I like how the 3450 is low profile, FINALLY a decent HD play back low-profile card for my other system. I'm snatchin' one up.

 

[SinxarKnights]

Hmm. Looks like it could be a pretty decent HTPC card. I have been meaning to build one of those... Let us pray that it is in the sub $100 range.

 

[AKIRA972]

IT IS SUB 100$

HD3450 WILL BE ~50$
HD3470 ~70$

 

[Can Not]

haha, the 3850 is the lower-end

fixt

 

[roberotto]

I mind 3470 could outperform 8500gt and 3450 > 8400gs.
40 SPUs x 16 from nvidia it will be placed in the middle of 8500 and 8600.

 

[bstep1989]

uhm, no 3850 is not lower-end, its lower mid-level, while 3870 is mainstream mid-level, and 8800GT is upper mid-level, 2600xt/pro and 8600GTS/GT are lower end cards...

 

[yipsl]

I'm shocked that the 3470 will come with GDDR3. I like how the 3450 is low profile, FINALLY a decent HD play back low-profile card for my other system. I'm snatchin' one up.

I was planning on doing an HTPC with an X2 3800+ and one of our ASUS 690G boards, but transferring that X2 3800+ to a hybrid Crossfire 780G board with a 3450 sounds better for HTPC.

My only complaint about hybrid Crossfire is that it won't work with higher end cards, like the 3850 or the upcoming 3650's and 3670's; only with the 3450 and 3470. It also won't have the initial energy features promised by AMD.

It makes a bit more sense to just put Phenom's in the 690G boards with 3850's. I could even replace my kid's Nvidia 6100 405 chipset board with 3470 in hybrid Crossfire in March, the X2 4600+ is still good to go in his system, though I'm tempted to go Phenom 2.3 for all three PC's so I can benchmark the best hybrid Crossfire configuration against a single 3850.