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AMD's budget processors
DAAMIT SCORED a win today with the pre-emptive launch of the Radeon HD 4770 and the Kuma-based Athlon X2 7850, both budget solutions for cash-strapped users.
First off, the Radeon HD 4770, where AMD shrunk its RV770 to 40nm and left 640 Stream processors, just like the HD 4830. The HD 4770 also sports GDDR5 (twice the data rate of GDDR3 on half the bus width) and a clock rate worthy of the HD 4870.
Performance is consistently superior to its HD 4830 brethren and sometimes bites at the 4850's ankles. When we get to power, it's also a nice surprise to see it suck less than the remainder of its competitors. Like someone pointed out, it's also the first time the GPU process node overtakes the CPU process node... which kind of says a lot about the business.
The Green Goblin is said to be preparing its reaction by *cough* repositioning the GTS 250.
In no particular order here's the review roundup for the HD 4770:
Fudzilla
With a little less puh-zazz, DAAMIT also dropped a budget Athlon X2, the last of the Mohicans, the 7850. Clocked at 2.8GHz, it manages a small-ish 500MHz overclock on average, but that's about as far as you'll go on a 65nm processor. Lots of value in a ~$80 processor, we have to say, as of all the reviews we've read, the 7850 gets you very good performance.
Again, we've hunted down the reviews for your perusal:
You'll have to forgive the monochordic banging of the DAAMIT drum today, but everywhere we turned... there they were, DAAMIT. µ
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The dammit thing died a while back Inq. Let it be....
E5300 for the same price beats 7850 in everything but gaming performance. It also overclocks better being a 45nm part, and so an OC'd e5300 will also perform better in gaming than an OC'd 7850.
"C'mon people" and "let's work this problem" both of which died with half the other American crap we see on UK TV.
I would allow "dammit" as in "dammit Janet" under the title 'retro humour'.
do your prices include mobo costs???
"E5300 for the same price beats 7850 in everything but gaming performance."
Gaming performance matters, probably more so than most other general performance.
I mean how much worse can it be at loading windows, running office, internet browsing etc? They must be very similar to the user. I expect that hard drive and memory performance, or lack of, will hurt more.