14 DAY TRIAL // The first Radeon HD 4670 already made its appearance on retailers' sites. The card was spotted for the first time at the Dutch retailer Komplett.nl, and it is an HIS model, featuring HIS' IceQ cooling, which seems to be a factory overclocked graphics solution, as it has the "Turbo" label on it. The board comes with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, but this is the only specification the retailer listed on its site. We should notice that the reference design is said to come with a 750MHz core clock, meaning the card should be clocked at around 800MHz.
The new model is set to sell for $95, yet, as it’s the first one to appear, the price will most likely differ, depending on retailers and other ATI AIB partners. The Radeon HD 4670 card goes hand in hand with ATI's HD 3850 graphics solution, which has a price starting at $85. However, seeing as how one is a reference card, while the other is factory overclocked, the price difference is understandable. The HIS Radeon HD 4670 was listed here, but Komplett.nl has removed the card from their site in the meantime.
Another HD 4670 model that could be seen at some European retailers comes from Sapphire, an ATI AIB partner whose new reference card is clocked at 750MHz and has a light bulk pack price of $98, while the full retail pack would cost $108. The HD 4670 is priced in the same range as the HD3850, the difference between them being set by the memory bus, which is 128-bit for the former and 256-bit for the latter.
The maximum power consumption of Sapphire's HD 4670 is said to be 70W, which makes it noticeably more efficient than the HD 3850, which has an energy consumption rate of 100W. The new card does not feature a 6-pin power connector, since it does not need any additional energy to work, and, given the fact that it has good thermals, vendors may soon offer passive versions of the card after its launch. Compared to HD 4670, the Radeon HD 3650 needs 75W to operate, the Nvidia 9600GT model uses 95W, while the 9500GT requires 50W.
Users can see Sapphire's HD 4670 listed here.