ATI unveils Radeon 4600 series
AS EXPECTED DAAMIT has launched its 4600 series graphics cards, aimed at the bulk of gamers and media enthusiasts who don't have a small fortune to shell out on an HD 4870 X2.
The 4600 series is essentially a watered-down version of the 4800 series, designed to go head to head with Nvidia's 9500 range. The new family starts off as a pair, comprising the HD 4670 and the HD 4650 graphics cards.
Both are built on 55nm tech, with 320 stream processing cores and feature the TeraScale graphics engine as well as support for DirectX 10.1 and HD.
As well the attractive pricing for the card itself, the 4600 series should save you money on your electric bill, with the HD 4670 operating at under 60W and the HD 4650 coming in below 50W under full load. This also means no extra power connectors are needed.
AMD's Rick Bergman reckons that this highlights the company's shift away from the "large, hot, monolithic graphics chip," while still producing sufficiently powerful graphics performance for each price range.
A 512MB GDDR3 version of the HD 4670 is available now for around $79, with an unpriced 1GB model due out later this month. Meanwhile, the 512MB GDDR2 HD 4650 is also expected to be before the end of September and should go for about $69.
No word yet on UK availability and pricing, but we'll let you know as soon as we know. µ
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The Sapphire HD4670 is available in Germany from Alternate with 512MB for 66€ + shipping.
http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Grafikkarten_ATI_PCIe/Sapphire/HD4670/292566/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Grafik&l2=Karten+PCIe&l3=ATI
So which is it? im looking at getting an $80 and even may step up to the 4850 price, but i really dont want to. What would be better a $80-90 3850 or a $70-80 4670?

thanks in advance
read the review on anandtech. the 4670 is close to 3870. looks like same specs on paper -but newer generation, 25mhz slower gpu, 200-400mhz slower memory-.

amazing!
So far, it looks like a 4670 is slower than a 3850... but thats before overclocking rears its head lol
Ebuyer has them at £55 for preorder - that's around half of the £111 for the cheapest 4850.
re: 3850vs4670? - Followup
So the $80 card scales to beat a 4850 when xfired
http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=4026

That seals the deal for me: Playing WoW, EQ, or LoTR with this will be more than great, and a year from now ill buy the second for ~40-50 and get 3 years of good eyecandy

Without needing a new power supply, more than an x2, or even a single new case fan.

Done and Done!

For all of us who use 19" 1280x1024 and play the above looking at a new build; there is no need to move up to 9600gt, 3870, or even a 8800gt - last years tech and not as good as 2x4670. Buy a 790gx, a 4670, and use all the old parts. Your set to go! Good upgrade paths on CPU, GPU, and raid configs.

Do i sound like a fanboy or what???im not. 

however, 4 months ago before AMD got its A$$ in gear this lvl of gfx was twice as expensive. In fact all the Nvidia parts were more than twice as expensive for the same lvl of performance. Nvidia really does shaft consumers on price when there is no competition. Historically, AMD has done the same, but to a much lesser degree. Go competition! 
okay enough then...


Well, any news on the AGP market domination by ATI continuing?