More Details on AMD's RV730-Based Cards

As we mentioned today in one of our posts, AMD is set to roll out three new graphics cards, and photos of them have already been spotted on the Internet. As expected, rumors are starting to build up and, because of them, we can now offer you more details about the upcoming cards, including core speeds for both the graphics processor and memory.

The new Radeon HD 4000-series cards have been designed for the low-level and mainstream market segments, which means that they will probably be listed at rather low prices, compared with AMD's current HD 4000-series of graphics cards. The reference models will be equipped with active cooling solutions, except for the value-targeted RV710, which will equip passive cooling. This particular card will be offered in both DDR2 and GDDR3 models, while the other two cards will be equipped with GDDR3 memory raging from 256MB (for the RV730 Pro) to 1GB (for the RV730 XT).

According to a recent article on the VR-Zone website, the RV760-based HD 4670 (RV730XT) graphics card will boast a maximum core speed of 750MHz and 2GHz for the GDDR3 memory. Meanwhile, the HD 4650 card will have a GPU speed of 650MHz, and the GDDR2 memory clocked at 1GHz.

Unfortunately, for the time being, this is pretty much everything we know about AMD's upcoming products for the low-level and mainstream desktop computer users. However, more details regarding the anticipated cards are bound to surface in the following days, as we're nearing the September (rumored) release date.

In other related news, NVIDIA is said to be working on an updated version of its GTX 260 graphics card, which is due to arrive in mid-September. Unfortunately, not many differences set the current model and the upcoming one apart, except for the additional TPC (Texture Processing Cluster) and 216 processing cores, up from the existent 192. Other than that, the new GTX 260 v2 will sport the same core/shader/memory speed of 576MHz, 1242MHz and 1998MHz, respectively.