bit-tech News: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB

news · September 11, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB

graphics card* - if you could post a link on your site that would be

very much appreciated.

*Link:*

*Picture:*

*Quote:

*/Generally speaking, spending more money in the mainstream arena nets

you quite a bit more performance in some scenarios and if the 4670 hits

closer to £60 than £50, and the XFX 9600 GSO XXX Edition manages to drop

under £70, you'll find better value for money in the Nvidia part.

Obviously, performance is higher, but it's also proportionally higher

when you factor in cost as well.

This is the sensitivity of the mainstream market down to a tee and in

some ways it goes back to the Sea of Grey article I wrote a while back -

the same applies here to some degree because the price points could end

up so close together that you could end up with proportionally more

performance available depending on how much more you spend.

If you take the 9500 GT as a starting point and work up, then the 4670

offers some incredible value for money against it. However, if you then

make the next step, you'll not only get more performance but in some

scenarios, quite a bit more performance than the financial outlay would

imply.

With that in mind, there's a lot to like about the Radeon HD 4670, but

as is always the case with mainstream hardware, it's impossible to judge

how good it is without final pricing confirmed. However, based on

current pricing, XFX's GeForce 9600 GSO 680M XXX Edition is well over

£75 and the cheapest GeForce 9600 GT is over £70.

As long as AMD's suggested pricing is right and the competitive

landscape doesn't completely change, the 4670 remains a good choice.

However, if the market changes around it, the 4670 could begin to look

like rather poor value - such is the way with the volatile mainstream

graphics card market./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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