AMD Radeon HD 4550/4350 Details

Now that the Radeon 4600 Series has been launched, AMD's next objective is to follow through with an entry level (or budget) GPU. RV710 will take the branding of 4500 and 4300 series, sporting DDR3 & DDR2 respectively.

This product will be immensely popular with the OEMs for the following reasons:

1. Incredibly cheap, especially in lots of 1000s
2. Very low power consumption & heat disspitation
3. 1080p HD decode
4. 3-4x performance over integrated graphics

The previous generation mainstream from AMD (RV620) featured 40 shader processors which has now doubled in RV710 to 80. Another increase is noticed in the Texture units from 4 to 8. AMD has managed to do all this despite a very small increase in die size. 

Performance figures at 1280×1024 are 10xx and 40xx in Vantage and 3DMark06 respectively. These figures should be enough to have a lead on it's rival the 128-bit 9400GT. Radeon 4300/4500 series launch is slated for September 25 and is expected to retail for $39-$59.

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