AMD launches the first 40nm video card, the HD 4770.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 10:31:47 Tue, April 28, 2009

Late last night I noticed that four HD 4770s appeared on Newegg and I knew what that meant. It meant that today would be launch day. At this point I have added the RV740 chip and the HD 4770 to the database and I have hooked up the four models that Newegg has in stock. I will be adding more card and reviews to the database all day long so stay tuned.

In the meantime, here are some handy Newegg links for your consuming pleasure:

	Gigabyte HD 4770 $109.99
	HIS HD 4770 $99.99 After Rebate
	PowerColor HD 4770 $99.99 After Rebate
	Sapphire HD 4770 $99.99 After Rebate

7 Comments

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:03:59 AM

entropy13
Member

MSI has it listed: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=130&cat2_no=137&prod_no=1802

XFX also: http://www.xfxforce.com/en-gb/products/graphiccards/HD%204000series/4770.aspx

Gecube: http://www.gecube.com/products-02.php?prod_cat_pid=243&prod_cat_id=256

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:21:01 PM

PingoPongo
n00b

Its not the highest end card, but it has decent specs... cos its better than the HD4830 and uses less power...
Why are all the coolers the same? Why no custom cooling or something like that?
Anyway good to see that they launched the 40nm. Hoping to see some high-end 40nm cards soon.
Btw i noticed the mem clock is 1600mhz... :o

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:35:02 PM

Casecutter
n00b

These are looking really nice.. but have some place where they seem to excellent then drop in some title that have ability to really use 256-Bit bus, even thought the effective Memory bus is strong with this one. Also, would've liked a lower idle consumption, is that a drawback to GDDR5? I'll wait for differant coolers and lower price.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:54:21 AM

-RK
Senior Member

Let the egg show seven.

And @pingopongo...
The card's memory clock is 800, it's using gddr5 though so it acts like it's 3200 instead of 1600.

I can't wait to see some aftermarket coolers for these, those reference coolers just look terrible.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:52:49 AM

PingoPongo
n00b

@RK i know its GDDR5 -_-

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:45:41 AM

-RK
Senior Member

Ahh, you seemed confused.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:53:44 PM

Balmung60
n00b

actually, the cooler looks a bit like a copper version of the cooler on my Sapphire 4850 (though this one's plastic cap is ugly as sin)

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