Meet the 4670 (RV730)

Exactly a week ago, we reported that AMD's new FirePro V5700 was based on RV730 and now the good folks at Chiphell have again managed to get their hands early on an RV730 based card.  Looking at the photos, its almost official now that RV730 will take the 4600 branding; the card pictured being the highest one in the series 4670. The GPU is manufactured on the 55nm process and will eventually be transitioned to 40nm early next year.

The expected clocks for Radeon HD 4670 are 701MHz for the core and paired with 1GHz rated GDDR3 clocked at 900MHz. Net result would be 450GFlops of computing power paired with a memory bandwidth of 28.8Gbps. The pictured card sports 1 DVI and 2 DisplayPort interfaces. The board is rated at 70W TDP and hence devoid of the 6 pin power connector.

The 4670 will be aimed at the sub $150 price segment and with a die-size of 150mm² along with 128-bit bus width, it will be very economical to produce. Keep in mind that these specifications are very close to Nvidia's recently launched 9500GT (G96) but with more horsepower (320 SPs).

To sum up the spec sheet of 4670:

• Shader Processors: 320
• Texture Units: 16
• Manufacturing Process: 55nm
• Core clock: 701MHz
• Memory clock: 900MHz
• Memory Bandwidth: 28.8Gbps
• Processing Power: 450GFlops
• Memory Configurations: 512MB, 1GB
• Die Size: 150mm²
• TDP: 70W
• Outputs: DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
• UVD2
• Vantage Score: P32xx

AMD is loving every bit of the attention media seems to be giving the 4800 series and their plan is to keep on hogging it. In the next couple of weeks, the 4870 1GB will be available soon followed by the 4850X2. The 4600/4400 launch in September finally rounding up a very impressive set of 4000 series top-to-bottom lineup. One thing is certain, Nvidia isnt sitting quietly either.

Update: According to our sources, the Vantage score is P32xx.

Update II: Our mole just sent in more details; final clocks, memory configurations & release date.

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