Thursday, April 30th 2009

XFX First to Use Premium Reference Design for Radeon HD 4770

XFX continues to show enthusiasm with its ATI Radeon line of products, by coming up with the first Radeon HD 4770 accelerator for the market to use the premium reference design for Radeon HD 4770 (model: XFX 4770ST D5 512MB). AMD had come up with two choices of coolers for its partners. Most of them choose the one which is more cost-effective, so the sales margins could be improved in an already tight pricing-segment.

XFX used the premium reference-design cooler and PCB, with a major difference that it comes in black instead of red. XFX has so far had a knack of trying as hard as it can, to color its cards black. The company did so with the Radeon HD 4870 reference design accelerator recently. This card retains the reference clock speeds of 750 MHz (core), and 800 MHz (memory). Given that XFX chose the more expensive parts in making this card, it will pass on the premium to the consumer, making it slightly more expensive than the reference design cards in its league.
Source: CPUsers.gr
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38 Comments on XFX First to Use Premium Reference Design for Radeon HD 4770

#26
a_ump
BrooksyXNice!

I wanna see someone make a 4770 with 1gb ram with a 256bit bus.
(unless of course if the rambus is on the chip, then it might not be possible. anyone know)
that's pretty much asking for someone to die shrink the Hd 4870 to 40nm, lower all the clocks, then disable 160 of the shaders. no point really lol
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#27
blkhogan
WarEagleAUVery nice. Im glad XFX decided to make ATI cards as well.
Been a fan of XFX designs for years. I too am happy they expanded to the ATI lineup.
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#28
BrooksyX
a_umpthat's pretty much asking for someone to die shrink the Hd 4870 to 40nm, lower all the clocks, then disable 160 of the shaders. no point really lol
The 4770 has a faster core speed than the 4870. It would be more like a 4890 with 160 less shaders for half the price.
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#29
a_ump
BrooksyXThe 4770 has a faster core speed than the 4870. It would be more like a 4890 with 160 less shaders for half the price.
no... they both are 750mhz HD 4870 HD 4770
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#30
Waldoinsc
Any word on a release date for this design...wasn't able to find out anything on XFX website, they only reference the card with the smaller cooler
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#31
aj28
CarolinaKSUAnd with a green PCB? Yuck. :confused:
Pretty sure the PCB is black and that's just a very poor picture. I like the matte finish XFX gives a lot of their boards... Might just sway me away from my trend of Gigabyte cards the past few generations.
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#32
Waldoinsc
was poking around on XFX europe website and found pics of this cooler on the HD4770 page with card that is currently for sale with the smaller cooler....small cooler card SKU is HD477AYDLC and the SKU for premium cooler is HD477AYDFC...evidently it has not been released as the XFX website does not list that SKU for sale yet
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#33
a_ump
yea i also have been waiting for them to release this version....but they haven't wtf
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#34
Waldoinsc
I read another article online testing the 4770's in X-fire and OCing them using GPU-Z if I remember correctly---flippin' $220 graphics setup held it's own or beat GeForce 280!...that's when I started looking for the premium cooler design a little more...if the smaller cooler OCing can get that level of performance, the improved cooler design should do better!
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#35
newtekie1
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WaldoinscI read another article online testing the 4770's in X-fire and OCing them using GPU-Z if I remember correctly---flippin' $220 graphics setup held it's own or beat GeForce 280!...that's when I started looking for the premium cooler design a little more...if the smaller cooler OCing can get that level of performance, the improved cooler design should do better!
Yeah, and the $225 GTX275 beats the GTX280, whats your point? Use the overpriced GTX280 as a performance judge doesn't work...
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#36
a_ump
i also read that review, and it beat the HD 4890 as well. which is 220 or so. and according to a few members on here that own the HD 4770, they oc'd it with the shitty looking stock cooler just fine so apparently there isn't really a need for the better one.
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#37
tastegw
i own one of these, this cooler is worse than the plain ugly coolers all the others use.

temps +5C idle and load vs my ugly sapphire 4770.

I thought it was just defected, so i bought a 2nd XFX, so then i had 3 4770's, but it was the same as the first.

out of the box, sapphire 4770 idled 29-32
out of the box the xfx's idled 37-42

just because it looks nice, doesnt mean its better.
btw, pick one up at frys electonics if you really want on.

one last note, neither of these coolers (ugly or xfx dual slot) cool the ram. they dont even have thermal pads on em.
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#38
stefanels
thanks for the info, because soon i will buy a 4770...
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