PowerColor

PowerColor / TUL

The next appointment we had as with the fine people from TUL. Though we do not review massive amounts of their cards, on occasion here at Guru3D we certainly like to have a look at their products. PowerColor did not have a booth at Computex, yet they hired a big meeting-room. They had some products on display that I'd like to show you.

Let's run through them.

So a very popular card is the all new 40nm Radeon HD 4770. ATI however has massive yield issues at this node, preventing mass introduction of products based on this ASIC. Here we see a passively cooled design that PowerColor is working on.

Always lovely to see, their most high-end Radeon HD 4890 PCS+. The PCS+ Radeon HD 4890s reach 950 MHz for the GPU (850 MHz stock) and 4400 MHz for the memory (raised from 3900 MHz). We'll actually review one of these cards fairly soon.

Now I had to really focus and try to get a shot of this one. But this is the Radeon HD 4730. The card will land in stores on June 8th with a price tag of $79.99 which is not bad as the card looks like a slower clocked Radeon HD 4770. The card's core will be clocked at 700MHz - down 50MHz from the Radeon HD 4770 - but its 512MB of GDDR5 memory will run quicker.
PowerColor claims an effective memory speed of 3,600MHz, 400MHz more than the Radeon HD 4770's 3,200MHz - and the number of stream processors remains unchanged at 640. Positioning wise, the Radeon HD 4730 looks like a mid-range solution competing with and replacing the Radeon HD 4830.