AMD RV740 Card Gets Previewed

WC Annihilus · #1 26-02-09, 07:48 AM

"The first preliminary review for a card based on AMD's upcoming RV740 ATI GPU has appeared."

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monkey7 · #2 26-02-09, 08:00 AM

Wow. Just wow. This could mean real budget performance considering it's not even that much more expensive than the 4670 while it gets much higher benchmark scores. In crossfire these should be quite mean.

GavX · #3 26-02-09, 09:37 AM

hang on.. did AMD just beat everyone to 40nm?? Not just a tech demo, but an actaul production product?

monkey7 · #4 26-02-09, 09:44 AM

Certainly looks like it.

I quite like it tbh. nVidia comes with rebrandings (gts250) and die shrinks / dualgpu (gtx295) and ATi immediately replies with the skipping of 55nm.

OmegaStalker · #5 26-02-09, 10:47 AM

i believe it is safe to say that ATI produces better products on the simple fact they are realtivly more innovative, cheap and good performers! not saying their better then Nvidia as both companies have their cons and pros but ATI atleaste tries

kataras · #6 26-02-09, 11:29 AM

Definitely nice to see, but its not quite what i expected. By this time i thought ATI would be on new architecture all together eg.Radeon HD5800 and not reworking old tech

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Originally Posted by name='monkey7'

ATi immediately replies with the skipping of 55nm.

Well all HD4xx0 series was based on 55nm, so no they didnt skip 55nm step. rather, Nvidia pulled it together and cought up with ati.

Rastalovich · #7 26-02-09, 11:35 AM

Sounds pretty good, given a good price it should be a decent seller.

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Originally Posted by name='SomeStoopid"News" site!'

Zomg! Shady Dealings !??"///one1""!!!!pk0r!22 It's a renamed die shrink 4830 !!! AMD are ripping every1 off - outrageous!

pffftt.

zak4994 · #8 26-02-09, 06:59 PM

O_o.

Cool.

MikeEnIke · #9 26-02-09, 09:21 PM

Way back when I never expected ATI would be carrying the weight of AMD. Nice to see a good performance card, can't wait til it's out on the shelves.