Friday, December 21st 2007
Radeon HD 3450, 3470 and 3650 Pictures and Specs
MADBOXPC.COM claims to have some pictures and specs for AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 3450, 3470 and 3650 graphics cards. The HD 3450, pictured below on the left, uses the RV620 core manufactured using a 55nm process. It will have a core clock of 525MHz with 256MB of 64-bit DDR2 memory running at 800MHz DDR, and apparently it will also feature a DisplayPort output - the price is expected to be around $50. The HD 3470, shown in the middle, features the same RV620 core, although it is expected to run at above 600MHz and have 512MB of 64-bit GDDR3 memory running at 1000MHz DDR, with a price tag of around $60. Finally, the HD 3650, which is shown below on the right, is equipped with the RV635 core, which is also built using a 55nm process, and will run at 800MHz on the XT version and 600MHz on the Pro version. The card is expected to have 256-512MB of 128-bit GDDR3 memory running at 2GHz DDR, and will sell for about $100. Interestingly, there is no mention of DisplayPort despite earlier reports that it will feature on the card, so it may only be used on certain versions.
Source:
MADBOXPC.COM
25 Comments on Radeon HD 3450, 3470 and 3650 Pictures and Specs
The RV620 sounds interesting for a HTPC build.
But something like this in the market should earn ATI revenue. There are a lot of people with PCs that don't play games.
Gosh! The engineers at ATi have completely lost sense of innovation. Each time ATi moved a series forward it brought in a significant amount of architectural changes. Looks like their think-tank is going empty now. Other than a change in the fabrication process, there's nothing new in this. The R670 is merely R600 after some liposuction. R680 is two R670's with a "Malcom in the middle" lane arbiter. And now this.
The R620 looks a candy, when planning for HTPCs. As long as ATi products stay lower in price than equivalent NV products, irrespective of their being #2 with performance, a lot of people could actually choose these, people with the general home entertainment, photo/video editing, with an occasional bit of gaming thrown in.
What you are saying really doesn't make sense. They are simply using an existing GPU (that works well for what it does at a decent price) for the discrete market. There is no reason for them to innovate a brand new GPU for that :wtf:. Honestly, I don't see new architecture from Nvidia when you compare their lower end parts. Heck, I don't see any real innovation going from G80 to G92 :laugh:
What am I saying? If it works, it works...like the old saying goes if it's not broke don't fix it!
Append: Broke? The HD2000 series is broke, my friend. It has to be fixed, big time. Taking of innovating new architectures: Remember the X1800 and X1900? They were the same series. X1800 came after the GF 7800 and when ATI found it had failed, they quickly innovated the spanking new X1900 which beat the GF 7800 to pulp.
Also, the HD2900 series was not broke. It did well for what it offered. Besides, this only compounds your none sense as we are discussing the 3800 series in this article not the HD2000 which is EOL.
It hurts me too that ATI lost the killer-instinct it used to have. It used to compete aggressively with NV and a result of that was that the industry was advancing faster and relatively better products were churned out. I am not expressing bias but just telling that if ATI failed with its HD2000 series, the least they could've done was to make sure they came back. Sure you have sales figures to suggest the lower-end cards to sell good, but an awesome performance segment card from ATI would have a very positive impact on ATI's current outlook.
It's off topic through your objection to ATI's business stragety without obtaining any data to support what you say.
It's off topic as you bring up a EOL HD 2000 series which was improved upon with the HD 3800 series (you don't talk about it...this is the point of the thread/article).
And, it's off topic because you want to blow hot air about an enthusiast video card in a discete video card thread.
Again, you are simply blowing hot air. We know that ATI will release a R680 and R700 next year which will be a higher end product. Therefore, nothing justify yours rant when we haven't seen what those products will do. Nor does your rant justify posting about ATI's high end prowls in a discrete video card thread.
What I mean while being 101% stuck to the topic is: A good performance card from ATI WILL boost the sales of these minnow cards as well because it would give the overall outlook of the company a boost.
An average Joe wanting to buy a cheap card for his 10yr old daughter, speaking to his coworker: "I was thinking about ATI Radeon, very good, very cheap"
Coworker: "No, NVidia makes the best cards in the industry, they also have good budget cards"
Avg Joe: "I see...NVidia, huh?"
ATI may not have the best performing video card on the market... but I could care less because buying a high-end card is out of my budget and gaming needs. And is ATI foolish for ignoring that sector for now? I don't think so. How many Corvettes and Vipers do you see on the road compared to say Camrys, Accords, Malibus, etc.? ATI is going after the sector that sells the most video cards, and I think that is smart considering the financial troubles they are experiencing.
As far as OEM parts go, NVidia has a fair share of it too.
PS: And I am not even a fanboy.