XFX First to Use Premium Reference Design for Radeon HD 4770

[BrooksyX]

Nice!

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)

 

[a_ump]

Nice!

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

 

[blkhogan]

Very 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.

 

[BrooksyX]

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

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.

 

[a_ump]

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.

no... they both are 750mhz HD 4870 HD 4770

 

[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

 

[aj28]

And with a green PCB? Yuck.

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.

 

[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

 

[a_ump]

yea i also have been waiting for them to release this version....but they haven't wtf

 

[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!

 

[newtekie1]

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!

Yeah, and the $225 GTX275 beats the GTX280, whats your point? Use the overpriced GTX280 as a performance judge doesn't work...

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[stefanels]

thanks for the info, because soon i will buy a 4770...