14 DAY TRIAL // Now that both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices have finished with their mind-blowingly overpowered graphics adapters, they can pay attention to the millions of people that can't, in fact, afford the GeForce GTX Titan and Radeon HD 7990.
To get right to the point, Advanced Micro Devices has put together the Radeon HD 7730 graphics adapter, based on a 28nm Cape Verde GPU.
It is meant to fit between the Radeon HD 7670 and the HD 7750 adapters, in terms of both performance and price.
The graphics processing unit alone provides 448 Stream Processors (Graphics CoreNext architecture), 16 ROPs, 28 TMUs and an interface of 128 bits for communication with the memory.
Speaking of memory, AMD chose to outfit the board with 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM.
Which brings us to the clock speeds: the GPU operates at 800 MHz, while the memory works at 1,125 MHz, or 4.5 GHz effective GDDR5.
Keep in mind that these aren't details officially released by AMD. They don't even belong to the reference card actually.
Instead, they are the traits of an MSI-made HD 7730, traits that Coolaler.com figured out after getting a hold of a board and testing it in Windows.
Overall, these traits put the card somewhere on the same level as NVIDIA's GeForce GT 640.
Unfortunately, we don't know what price this product bears, or when sales will start outside the Chinese market, where Coolaler got the device from. Then again, the box bears the stickers of Taiwan-based retailers, so we might be wrong on that.
We doubt that AMD would keep an all-new graphics card restricted to just a couple of small markets when the potential gains in Europe and the US are so high. Still, we don't know anything for sure, so all we can do is wait and see.
