ATI RV740 Preview Lands Performance Between HD4830 and HD4850

Category: Gaming
Posted: February 25, 2009 06:44PM
Author: jammin

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The RV740 will be among the first of ATI's 40nm parts, and if a preview of a card based on the new chip published today by The Guru of 3D proves correct then we can expect performance somewhere in between a HD 4830 and HD 4850. With GPU stats equal to the RV770LE (HD 4830), the major difference from that part is the bumped core speed of 650MHz (from 575MHz) and the introduction of GDDR5 memory at 3200MHz compared to the 1800MHz GDDR3 on the HD 4830. That brings the total estimated math processing rate up to 900 GigaFLOPS. Compare that to the 1000 GigaFLOPS of a HD 4850 and it seems pretty decent, but the best thing about the RV740 is that pricing for cards could be below $99.