The dawn of the 40nm era is closing in fast and to spearhead the move to the new production process is AMD's RV740, a new GPU which will power the Radeon HD 4750 and supposedly HD 4770 too. Wanting to give Nvidia a little kick in its soft parts, AMD (or one of its partners) has provided Guru3D with a sample of a Radeon HD 4750 for an early performance preview.
Seen below with a likely not-stock dual-slot cooler, the Radeon HD 4750 has a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 connection interface, an 128-bit memory interface, DirectX 10.1 and CrossFireX support, 640 Stream Processors, just like the Radeon HD 4830, 512MB of GDDR
5 memory clocked at 3200 MHz and a GPU clock that's not final and hovers between 650 and 700 MHz.
Unfortunately also equipped with a 6-pin PCIe connector for extra power, the card was
hooked up to a Core i7-powered system and put to the test in quite a few games including Far Cry 2, Call of Duty: World at War, Crysis Warhead and Left 4 Dead. Reminding you that the tested Radeon HD 4750 was a sample board and the drivers were obviously far from finished, the RV740 card performed very nice, with its scores falling just between the Radeon HD 4830 and the HD 4850.
Set to arrive in April and cost just under $100, the Radeon HD 4750 is looking pretty good in terms of performance/price ratio. Bring on the 40nm era!
Photos courtesy of
Guru3D.
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