OC3D Review: Sapphire HD 4770 PCIe Graphics Card

[JN]

"Entry level gaming GPU's are often overlooked with the constant battle waged at the high end of the market. Today we take a look at Sapphires interpretation of the new HD4770 GPU..." - by W3bbo

Read on...

 

[f0x.]

Good review mate, have to agree about the single slot cooler, would have been a great card for a media center if you wanted to do a bit of gaming as well

 

[tinytomlogan]

Im actualy putting 2 of these in a new rig for a customer, little stormers of GPU's!

We finaly get a new 8800gt

 

[Mul.]

Awesome little graphics card. Nice to see one with a single slot cooler too

 

[w3bbo]

This doesn't have a single slot cooler - just one of my critcisms. Great card all the same though and I agree about the 8800GT comment.

 

[Rastalovich]

Pretty much a carbon copy of the ASUS variant in terms of performance.

How much in terms of quality settings, can these cards achieve these days ? in comparison to perhaps a 8800gt ?

 

[Mul.]

Awesome little graphics card. Nice to see one with a single slot cooler too

My apologies. Misread one of the above posts and had only really looked at the performance figures. Just read the review fully now.

 

[w3bbo]

Quality is not too bad, resolutions seemed to have a bigger effect (2560x1600 is pain full to watch at times). For your average gamer though they are not half bad at all.

 

[Rastalovich]

Quality is not too bad, resolutions seemed to have a bigger effect (2560x1600 is pain full to watch at times). For your average gamer though they are not half bad at all.

Sorry m8, I meant like how far the typical new amd card can throw up AA settings and the other Q within games.

(in comparison to the 8800gt if u like)

 

[w3bbo]

Well I don't have an 8800GT to hand m8 so I can't really compare directly I'm afraid. I may just have a 1GHz version coming soon though, so if you want me to try your preference of res/AA setting gimme a shout.

 

[Rastalovich]

Nah w3bb0 m8, simpler, if u go into a game, what is selectable from the graphic options thing in terms of quality settings.

We know that if u go into "a" game with something like a 8800GT, for example, u can go 16xAA and 8x on filtering (or whatever), and that weird glow thing (that works well in TW I might add).

Despite what the "performance" may be, what u get on the amd's these days ?

 

[w3bbo]

If memory serves it can go up to 24xCu AA (custom AA) or 8x Standard MSAA with upto 8x AF.

 

[Rastalovich]

That's pretty good. I guess that custom AA is like the QQ.

(I have no idea tbh)

Good to see some quality breaking in there instead of just raw fps.