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Sapphire HD 4650 OC Edition 512 MB Review
Packaging & Contents »Introduction
AMD recently released their HD 4650 and HD 4670 cards which are based on the AMD RV730 graphics processor. The cards are targeted at the sub-$100 segment which is also where the NVIDIA 9600 GT and 9600 GSO are positioned.
While other AIBs have designed their own PCBs to reduce cost or optimize it to their own design goals, Sapphire has chosen to use ATI's reference board design. Unlike the reference design, the clock and memory speeds are increased to 650 MHz and 900 MHz - far from the maximum as our overclocking tests will show later.
| Radeon HD 4350 | GeForce 9400 GT | Radeon HD 4550 | GeForce 9500 GT | Radeon HD 4650 | Sapphire HD 4650 | Radeon HD 4670 | Radeon HD 3850 | Radeon HD 3870 | GeForce 9600 GT | Radeon HD 4830 | GeForce 8800 GT | GeForce 9800 GT | Radeon HD 4850 | |
| Shader units | 80 | 16 | 80 | 32 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 320 | 64 | 640 | 112 | 112 | 800 |
| ROPs | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| GPU | RV710 | G96 | RV710 | G96 | RV730 | RV730 | RV730 | RV670 | RV670 | G94 | RV770 | G92 | G92 | RV770 |
| Transistors | 242M | 314M | 242M | 314M | 512M | 512M | 512M | 666M | 666M | 505M | 956M | 754M | 754M | 956M |
| Memory Size | 256 MB | 512M | 512 MB | 256 MB / 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 256 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| Memory Bus Width | 64 bit | 128 bit | 64 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Core Clock | 600 MHz | 550 MHz | 600 MHz | 550 MHz | 600 MHz | 650 MHz | 750 MHz | 670 MHz | 777 MHz | 650 MHz | 575 MHz | 600 MHz | 600 MHz | 625 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 500 MHz | 400 MHz | 800 MHz | 900 MHz | 500 MHz | 900 MHz | 1000 MHz | 828 MHz | 1126 MHz | 900 MHz | 900 MHz | 900 MHz | 900 MHz | 993 MHz |
| Price | $49 | $59 | $59 | $89 | $69 | $70 | $85 | $99 | $125 | $90 | $130 | $140 | $160 | $170 |
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