4770 reviews thread

[BFG10K]

Anandtech.
XBit Labs.
Tom's Hardware.
ComputerBase.
Benchmark Reviews.
Guru3D.
HardOCP.
Hot Hardware.
Hardware Canucks.
Legit Reviews.
PC Stats.
Tech Power Up.
Lab501.
Tech-report.

 

[Kuzi]

It's sad that in recent years the quality of Anandtech's reviews have been going down, this review is one of the worst I have read, and I've been reading Anandtech for over 10 years.

I like the XBit Labs review so informative and complete. Their reviews are the best for me in general, even though they can be slow sometimes at putting them up.

Anyways the 4770 is a very nice card for the price, anyone planning on building a budget gaming system then the 4770 seems like the best choice.

 

[HOOfan 1]

So long HD4850, we hardly knew thee.

No reason to pay $30 more for a card that is only 2-4 FPS faster in a few games, gets beat in other games and even in some games that it has higher average FPS, loses in the minimum FPS category.

 

[judasmachine]

Any reviews include the HD3870?

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
Any reviews include the HD3870?

Yes I would like to see that too, the AMD Zone has a Geforce 9600 GT in their review which is sort of HD3870 performance.

 

[theAnimal]

Benchmark Reviews
Guru3D
HardOCP
Hot Hardware
Hardware Canucks
Legit Reviews
PC Stats
Tech Power Up

 

[Stoneburner]

This is terrible. I want a card with the reference exhaust cooler! Not that odd cooler all the newegg models have

 

[monovillage]

The only review of the actual 4770 that's available at retailers is here at www.hardwarecanucks.com
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com...12mb-gddr5-review.html

looks like i was tabbed out too long

 

[error8]

4770 in crossfire fighting against GTX 285

It's a romanian review, but it looks pretty good. Crossfire scaling seems amazing with these cards.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Looks like all of the reviews are maxing out CCC at 830MHz when they try to overclock. I'd like to see what can be done once some software shows up without the 830MHz limit.

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: Kuzi
It's sad that in recent years the quality of Anandtech's reviews have been going down, this review is one of the worst I have read, and I've been reading Anandtech for over 10 years.

I like the XBit Labs review so informative and complete. Their reviews are the best for me in general, even though they can be slow sometimes at putting them up.

Anyways the 4770 is a very nice card for the price, anyone planning on building a budget gaming system then the 4770 seems like the best choice.

I think in general Anandtech's reviews are on par and good quality. yes this one is little low on quality probably they rushed it out the door but to generalize to all recent reviews would be untrue.

 

[Jacen]

Looks ATI has another winner on their hands. Great price for those on a budget and fantastic performance as well.

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: Jacen
Looks ATI has another winner on their hands. Great price for those on a budget and fantastic performance as well.

personally I think $110 too high for this card. 4850 is selling at 90AR this weekend at the egg. gtx250 was selling at 100AR not long ago. this cards needs to be at about 80/85 to be hot seller howadays. not to say it's bad, but the fact is the prices are falling now. I think the best deal was the gtx 260-216 for $155 last week from egg I believe. that's a lot of card for the cash.

actually this one that's onsale at egg isn't bad either: 4870/512 for 140AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814161268

 

[Rick James]

Haven't gotten to fry's yet but i'll have some benchmarks up in an hour or so

 

[FragCat]

this is being sold for 132 dollars and the 4830 is being sold for 105 dollars which one should I get? i heard the 4830 ocs good

 

[ghitz]

No HDMI ports on any of these cards.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: error8
4770 in crossfire fighting against GTX 285

It's a romanian review, but it looks pretty good. Crossfire scaling seems amazing with these cards.

The scaling in the 1680x1050 WIC benchmark seems downright implausible. A single 4770 gets 28FPS, and the CF setup gets a whopping 73FPS. I'm guessing they messed up their test somehow, or mixed up numbers.

Originally posted by: FragCat
this is being sold for 132 dollars and the 4830 is being sold for 105 dollars which one should I get? i heard the 4830 ocs good

How are your 4850 prices? For US customers, Newegg's got a $90 4850 which is a much better value than any 4770 price I've seen.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: error8
4770 in crossfire fighting against GTX 285

It's a romanian review, but it looks pretty good. Crossfire scaling seems amazing with these cards.

The scaling in the 1680x1050 WIC benchmark seems downright implausible. A single 4770 gets 28FPS, and the CF setup gets a whopping 73FPS. I'm guessing they messed up their test somehow, or mixed up numbers.

Quoted from article : "Si daca tot vorbeam de scalare excelenta in Crossfire, aici vedem deja scalare atat de buna incat pare dubioasa. Adica, o placa video obtine 28fps si doua obtin 73fps ?"

Translated: " And if we were speaking of excellent scaling in Crossfire, here we're seeing such a good scaling that it seems fishy. I mean , a videocard obtains 28fps while two obtain 73 fps?"

So, maybe they've mixed something up, or, maybe the scaling is amazing.:laugh:

 

[jnmfox]

Originally posted by: vj8usa
How are your 4850 prices? For US customers, Newegg's got a $90 4850 which is a much better value than any 4770 price I've seen.

Best 4770 price I've found, $90 after MIR. But it is a pre-order.

Personally I would get the 4770 over the 4850 due to it performing better in CoH since that is about the only PC game I play, plus less power under load.

 

[Rick James]

Installing as we speak. I'll have the Xfire bridges in a few hours

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: Rick James
Installing as we speak. I'll have the Xfire bridges in a few hours

So you have two of them. Maybe you can make a couple of single card, dual cards benchies and see how it does scale. Let's see if the crossfire scaling is that amazing after all.

 

[Rick James]

Originally posted by: error8

Originally posted by: Rick James
Installing as we speak. I'll have the Xfire bridges in a few hours

So you have two of them. Maybe you can make a couple of single card, dual cards benchies and see how it does scale. Let's see if the crossfire scaling is that amazing after all.

Yes i have two. I'll post up whatever people want. Just let me know.

Stock clocks

http://i725.photobucket.com/al...252/2MCHBoost/4770.jpg

 

[jnmfox]

CoH:

Single vs. xfire vs. whatever other card you have

 

[cbn]

That Xbit labs review was really complete and thorough.

They also said this card only uses 47 watts under full 3D load. (Plus the die size is actually smaller than the 4670).

I wonder why ATI included a 6-pin Power connector?

 

[cbn]

Originally posted by: error8
4770 in crossfire fighting against GTX 285

It's a romanian review, but it looks pretty good. Crossfire scaling seems amazing with these cards.

It looks like those guys are getting a really good jump in performance (relative to the Xbit labs review) with the large memory overclock.

P.S. Do you think this card is a glimps of what HD5870 will bring? It seems that 1200 shader @900 Mhz 256 bit DDR5 rumor is aimed at keeping die size realitively small.