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AMD’s graphics division has this week turned the media spotlight towards its new ATI Radeon HD 4600 series of graphics card solutions, which the company is boldly touting as providing “exceptional” gaming and HD multimedia performance without the burden of expanded retail pricing.
Doubled performance at a low price. Bargain. Buy two! Image: AMD/ATI.
The new HD 4600 series consists of the HD 4670 and HD 4650, and utilises the same award-winning technology applied through ATI’s HD 4800 line, including support for DirectX 10.1, advanced HD multimedia capabilities, and also industry-leading performance-per-watt statistics that see the line consuming less power than a conventional light bulb.
Specifically, when under full load, the ATI Radeon HD 4670 operates at less than 60 watts while the ATI Radeon HD 4650 operates below the 50 watt threshold, eliminating the need for additional power connectors and making installation easy, according to AMD.
Angling for the mainstream market through “incredible” and affordable prices, the HD 4600 series are built on AMD’s second-generation 55nm manufacturing process and feature the company’s TeraScale graphics engine and 320 stream processing cores.
And, in terms of end-user effect, AMD claims the new HD 4600 series will, when applied to today’s most demanding computer game titles such as Crysis, deliver up to double the performance of competing products at the same price.
“Today, AMD is providing mainstream users -- one of the largest segments of the market -- with superior graphics products and performance at previously unheard of prices,” beamed Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Graphics Products Group.
And what of those prices? Well, the HD 4670 comes complete with a frame buffer of 512MB (GDDR3) and a price tag of just $79 USD, while the HD 4650 offers up a frame buffer of 512MB (GDDR2) and an even lower retail price of $69 USD. A full 1GB (GDDR3) version of the HD 4670 is expected to arrive in the coming weeks.
“AMD’s new ATI Radeon HD 4670 handily outperformed the ATI Radeon HD 3650 and GeForce 9500 GT across a broad range of benchmarks and just missed hitting the mark set by more expensive offerings,” commented Marco Chiappetta of HotHardware.com, who also noted that it “performed very well in our benchmark testing, which included a number of popular 3D applications and SD and HD video playback tests.”
Other features incorporated into the HD 4600 line include AMD’s Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0), support for HDMI 7.1 surround sound, ATI Avivo HD technology support for Blu-ray, other HD content and DVD upscaling, and ATI PowerPlay, which enables power savings by automatically adjusting energy consumption based on the GPU’s activity levels.
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