ATI HD 4670 REVIEW

Take a look:
http://www.hothardware.com/Article [...] m/?page=11

The ATI Radeon HD 4670 proved to be an excellent performer, especially considering its low-power operation and affordable price. In our synthetic 3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage benchmarks, the Radeon HD 4670 trailed cards like the Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 9600 GT/GSO, but handily outperformed the ATI Radeon HD 3650 and GeForce 9500 GT. However, in our actual in-game tests, which use anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the Radeon HD 4670 was able to outpace the Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 9600 GSO more often than not and finished close behind the more expensive GeForce 9600 GT.

Now we want some benchies, and i dont mean pics of garden furniture
Mactronix

another one:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ati- [...] 70-review/

Beat me to the punch there Maziar

Mactronix

you wanted to post the GURU3D one ?

Nice, though I do wish the guru article included the 3850. From what I saw, aside from the occasional game, the 4670 can hold its own against the 9600GT. Its better then the 9600GT however seeing as its not only cheaper, but doesn't need the 6pin PCIe connector. For $80, AMD has given us one heck of a card.

With that power draw - the 4670 would make an AMAZING laptop GPU

Looks absolutely excellent. Seems as though I found something to replace my X850XT with, and crank up the details!!! And AA and AF... never used those before. Now, where can I find one.

Yup it will be good for laptops IF they dont change the specs of it for the laptop version though.

It wasnt in Tehran one was in tabriz for about 3 weeks ago and the second one was today in the south and fortunately no one was hurt

thanks

Would the 4670 be faster then the x1950 pro?

HD 4670 is looking to be on par with the HD3850 from what I've seen. Should be significantly above the HD2600's, HD 3600's, and anything before HD's (X800's & X850's, X1950's).

Yep. Good low mid range card. Really promising for laptops and living room AV-computers.

It should be slower then the 3850. The 3850 has a faster memory bus. Due to the improvements in handling AA however, the 4670 should be faster then the 3850 with AA enabled. (I believe the number of SP is the same for both cards.) I was hoping for benchies between the 4670 and the 3850 to see exactly how much impact the smaller memory bus would have. If any company chooses to put out a 4670 with higher memory specs, it should be a monster. I believe this is also why the overclocked card showed the kind of gains that it did, as the card is starved for memory. If anyone buys these, get the best cooling you can on the memory, and overclock the crap of the ram. I'd love to see someone come up with a memory volt mod for these cards. This could lead to some nice overclocking!

I must say I've been pleasantly surprised by the 4670's results, especially given the remarkably low price. Given that it appears to hold quite strong with AA enabled at medium resolutions in pretty much everything out now, I'm highly tempted to pick this for my next system if I get underway building this not too far into the future, rather than waiting on the 1GB 4870 whenever it comes out. It appears to be providing notably over half the performance of the 4850 at those resolutions, for less than half the price... Possibly this could be the best "bang for the buck" to be seen yet.

Of course, given that the 4850 itself already made a heck of a splash, shaking up the entire landscape, the 4670 won't be making quite as large of a dent, I'd imagine. It's only a decently strong bargain, not wildly well beyond everything, offering more performance than cards twice as pricy; that re-alignment already came, and it also wound up pushing the lower ends down, allowing $100US to buy a GeForce 9600 GSO rather than a GeForce 8600 GTS. We might yet see another set of price drops here...

It's WELL worth noting that the 4600 cards have 32 texturing units rather than the 16 the 3870 has, and it was pretty much well-documented that in virtually all cases, the bottleneck on Radeon 2900 and 3800 cards was the pathetically poor texturing throughput that was hardly improved since the Radeon X800XT back in 2004. I think that this has perhaps been instrumental to the 4670's performance. Not to say that it's being generally restricted by its memory bandwidth... I'm positive that it'd get rather strong performance gains from a higher memory clock; perhaps a GDDR4 or even GDDR5 version might be in order if the chips don't cost too much?

Thats not humor, thats common sense heheh, and Im not just refering to Portugal either

It's good that having an lower end of mainstream graphics card that can play new games. For some time to play a new title, you had to buy a graphics card which cost 150$+ at least.

GS power sonsumption is much higher and costs more

I cant believe you say that dagger, its soooo far off. Maybe you can find a few deals where theyre close in price, the gs being old and totally non comparable in power usage and video playback. But you were the one that said the 4850 wasnt as good as the ultra not the gts as well

On Newegg, 8800gs cost $85 (only one model available because it's old).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150276
4670 cost $80-90.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 0HD%204670
9600gso cost at least $90, but down to $70 if mir is included.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] rder=PRICE

Total system power consumption 30w more. But is 30w really significant?

Performance is below 8800gs/9600gso, but only slightly:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/4.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/5.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/6.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/7.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/8.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 670/9.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/ [...] 70/10.html

4670 is definitely a good card for the low price range, but nothing to get excited about, since existing cards in that segment already deliver similar results.

Benchmarks aren't to your liking?

Give it a bit of time and the 4670's are probably going to drop to the sub $60 mark - lets see what Nvidia can offer then.. I don't think they can make a 9600gso for that

Its what I heard going back to March. An insider "hinted" that theyd stick with the G9x arch, push the G200 at highend and ride it out. They were completely taken by surprise, as ATI let slip varying rumors of both 480 and 800 shaders, while only 1 persom ever mentioned the rop increase.

Yep no doubt they will release something better next time around but damn what a way to lose money! Lets just ride it out!..lol but if ATI could do it for a year and a half so can Nvidia .