Title: "Green Packaging for Sapphire"
Date: Jul 07 2009
Summarizing: The Radeon HD4890 cards are definitely competitive and able to fight on equal terms with the GeForce GTX260 and GTX275 NVIDIA. As already announced a few weeks ago, all the HD4800 series will undergo a price reduction in the coming months, making the ATI offer even more attractive. During our tests, we have not encountered problems with the drivers on Windows Vista ne, ne RC on Windows 7, a sign that the development of the Catalyst drivers has finally taken the right way, long the Achilles heel of ATI.
Conclusioni: "A svettare, però, è la soluzione di Sapphire, soprattutto grazie a un ottimo insieme di connessioni nella parte posteriore"
PC Test with Sapphire HD4890 1GB
Pros:
- Retail price
- Solid all-round performance
- Addition of native HDMI
port - Overclocking through ATI
- Overdrive
Cons:
- Power consumption
- Cooler noise
- Limited bundle
Conclusion: "Radeon HD 4770 graphics cards are almost impossible to find on
our market despite the fact that many of our readers, impressed by HD 4770 performance shown through our review, are still desperately looking for one.
AMD and Sapphire, as one of AMD's closest partners, decided to act now and instead of waiting on the TSMC to fix its problem with 40nm yield and
production, offered yet another RV770 product, named Radeon HD 4730. While the PCB of this card is almost identical to the PCB of HD 4870 cards, AMD played with features and decided to cut some of the shader units, as well as ROPs and memory buy, in order to make this card look like a true performance replacement for HD 4770. Performance wise, no mistake was done and HD 4730 performs almost as good as HD 4770, while maintaining a popular sub-100USD price. However, it is worth noticing that this card has unusually high power consumption rate for cards from mentioned price range due to its original design. Nevertheless, if you're looking for a graphics card update right now, aiming at sub-100USD market and can live with a little bit higher power consumption, until HD 4770 reappears, we don't see a better card on the market."
AMD and Sapphire, as one of AMD's closest partners, decided to act now and instead of waiting on the TSMC to fix its problem with 40nm yield and
production, offered yet another RV770 product, named Radeon HD 4730. While the PCB of this card is almost identical to the PCB of HD 4870 cards, AMD played with features and decided to cut some of the shader units, as well as ROPs and memory buy, in order to make this card look like a true performance replacement for HD 4770. Performance wise, no mistake was done and HD 4730 performs almost as good as HD 4770, while maintaining a popular sub-100USD price. However, it is worth noticing that this card has unusually high power consumption rate for cards from mentioned price range due to its original design. Nevertheless, if you're looking for a graphics card update right now, aiming at sub-100USD market and can live with a little bit higher power consumption, until HD 4770 reappears, we don't see a better card on the market."
CONCLUSIONS: We can define the Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-x 2GB as the latest incarnation of the 4800 series, to be preferred when we were looking for a powerful and flexible, but mostly silent card.
CONCLUSIONI: Possiamo definire la Radeon HD Vapor-x 4890 2GB come l'ultima incarnazione della serie 4800, da preferire nel caso in cui fossimo alla ricerca di una soluzione potente e flessibile, ma soprattutto silenziosa.
