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ATI Radeon HD 4670, Redefining The MainstreamWednesday, September 10, 2008 - by Marco Chiappetta in Video
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We have explained in numerous articles in the past that the bulk of GPU sales are made in the form of ether IGPs (Integrated Graphics Processors) or affordable, mainstream graphics cards. As powerful and exciting as the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 or GeForce GTX 280 cards may be, AMD and NVIDIA simply don't sell as many flagship products as they do mainstream cards.
It is because of this fact that both companies consistently refresh their mainstream offerings every few months or so, and continually push new features and performance down their respective product lines. As many of you may have expected, since AMD recently released the RV770 GPU, which is the foundation of the Radeon HD 4800 series, a new mainstream offering was obviously in the works. And today, we can finally show that card to you.
AMD is releasing a new salvo of mainstream graphics cards that should fall in the sub-$80 price segment, dubbed the Radeon HD 4670. The GPU at the heart of the 4670 is based on the RV770 architecture used on the Radeon HD 4800 series, sans a few stream processors, ROPs, and other assorted elements, but with what is essentially the same feature set as its more expensive counterparts. We've got a couple of these new cards on hand and plan to show you what they're capable of on the pages ahead. After reading, you may be surprised by what 80 bucks can get you these days...
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ATI Radeon HD 4670
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测试平台及评测对象
Hardware Used:
Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (3GHz)
Asus Striker II Extreme
(nForce 790i SLI Ultra chipset)
Asus P5E3 Premium
(X48 Express)
Radeon HD 4670 x 2
Radeon HD 3650
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
2048MB Corsair DDR3-1333 C7
(2 X 1GB)
Integrated Audio
Integrated Network
Western Digital "Raptor" 74GB
(10,000RPM - SATA)
Relevant Software:
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
DirectX June 2008 Redist
NVIDIA Forceware v177.92 / v177.39
ATI Catalyst v8.53
Benchmarks Used:
3DMark06 v1.0.2
3DMark Vantage v1.0.1
Unreal Tournament 3 v1.2*
Crysis v1.2*
Half Life 2: Episode 2*
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars*
* - Custom Benchmark
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Next we conducted a test using an H.264 encoded movie trailer clip for "Beowulf" which is available for download on Apple's QuickTime HD website. The CPU utilization data gathered during these tests was taken from Windows Vista's built-in Performance Monitor. The graphs show the CPU utilization for a GeForce 9500 GT and a Radeon HD 4670 using PowerDVD 8 Ultra to playback the QuickTime clip.
GeForce 9500 GT
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Radeon HD 4670
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[ 本帖最后由 冰雨寒雪 于 2008-9-10 17:12 编辑 ] |
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