Monday, March 23rd 2009
Radeon HD 4750 Gets First Listing
With all the attention the RV790 (Radeon HD 4890) is grabbing as it heads for launch, we almost seem to forget its smaller sibling, the RV740 (Radeon HD 4750) is also in the works. What makes the special, is the fact that it is the industry's first GPU to be built on the 40 nm silicon fabrication process.
A preview of this desktop card surfaced late last month, which showed its performance to sit somewhere between those of the Radeon HD 4830, and HD 4850. With this the company plans to step up the heat against NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, and is adequately equipped to bear the brunt of a price-war, thanks to the lower manufacturing costs this card brings. German retailer Hardware Schottenland.de has added the first listing of the card, which shows its price set at 129.90 €.
Sources:
ATI-Forum.de, Guru3D
A preview of this desktop card surfaced late last month, which showed its performance to sit somewhere between those of the Radeon HD 4830, and HD 4850. With this the company plans to step up the heat against NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, and is adequately equipped to bear the brunt of a price-war, thanks to the lower manufacturing costs this card brings. German retailer Hardware Schottenland.de has added the first listing of the card, which shows its price set at 129.90 €.
29 Comments on Radeon HD 4750 Gets First Listing
But as I always say, this is the pre-release price, which is usually higher.
EDIT: You can actually find a pair of HD4850s for 120€.
Get ready for some more "which video card should I do" and a lot of "get the one I have it's great". :banghead:
60€ is not realistic for any card. Even old lower end cards never go below 50€, not a lot lower anyway. Bear in mind that a good chunk of the end price (20-25€) goes to the retailer and distributors and those work here in the EU.
Edit: I just found another one for $109.
I also don't take too seriously MIR for the same purpose, because you are paying the full price indeed. Sure you will take some money back later, but it's not exactly the same IMO.
EDIT: See, the actual price of the card you linked is $159, and it's because of the (most probably needed) discounts and the MIR that goes down to $109. At the end of the day the same vendor could apply the same discounts to the new $130 card and you would get it for $90...
Weird title for a card that places between a 4830 and 4850. You'd think this was a 4840 rather than 4750.
Less than $100 + gddr5 sounds like a marketing slide waiting to happen.
4850 will prolly stay the course to rv870...seeing as it may be coming as early as August (According to ATi-forum). While the rv740 will likely obtain higher clocks, I doubt it will be enough to make up the 20% architecture advantage of rv770, but I very well could be wrong. It'll be close enough to make 4850 obsolete. It's stock spec is a whopping 10% advantage over the 4770...but that doesn't stop us from having a market with a 192sp 260, 216 260, 275, and 285...all separated by ~10% or less.
Hey BTA, check out post #2 over here by Bob:
translate.google.com/translate?u=http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/news/34-amdati-grafikkarten/349-neue-informationen-zum-rv870&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
So much of that rings of truth. I was thinking 975mhz and 775mhz with 1280sp for 2TF and 2.5TF...and maybe a 32nm 1175mhz part reaching 3TF....but the rest of what he says seems feasible, especially since Global Foundries is starting use of 32nm bulk very soon...
1.5-2TF just doesn't feel right though. A 512-bit package that is split for MCM sounds interesting and doable though (a lot like a mcm cpu). If anything, a rumor worth hearing!