14 DAY TRIAL // After much anticipation, it appears that the specifications of the world's first 40nm-based desktop graphics card have finally surfaced on the Internet. According to the latest details, the first card to be equipped with the next-generation 40nm Radeon GPU will become available as part of the new Radeon HD 4700 series of graphics accelerators. Specifications and pricing of what will be known as the Radeon HD 4770 have just been unveiled, leaked from one of the AMD's internal presentation slides.
According to the details made available by IT168.com, AMD's highly anticipated Radeon HD 4770 will ship to the market starting this half of 2009, with a price tag that is expected to be around US$99. As far as performance is concerned, AMD's Radeon HD 4770 is targeting NVIDIA's 9800GT with both its 65nm and 55nm variants. According to AMD's slide, the new card will provide users with 9.7 GPLOPS per dollar and 12.0 GFLOPS per watt. This should be a significant performance boost over the 9800GT, which can only deliver 5.1 GFLOPS per dollar and 4.8 GFLOPS per watt.
AMD's first 40nm desktop graphics card will be equipped with at least 512MB of 128-bit GDDR5 memory and provide 1960 GFLOPS of processing power. Its core clock will be set at 750Mz and will ship with 640 stream processors, a memory clock of 800MHz and a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. In addition, the card will boast 826 million transistors and will apparently feature a power consumption of 80W.
Price wise, the Radeon HD 4770 will be available sometime in the first half of this year and will retail at around US$99. This will be one of AMD's most significant GPU updates, as it marks the debut of the new 40nm manufacturing technology. In addition to the details on the new 40nm card, the slide also mentioned a US$399 price tag for AMD's flagship card, the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
