colourful no quad pipela..haha..2 oni..v2...hmphh...gainward juz rename or rebrand its own brand...last time a logo wif a lion...pretty poor performing company..but now looks good..so far so good..i wudnt go for msi..most of the msi my frenz and i bought..less than a year..sure die..duno y.ha

Errk not quad pipe? I thought Colorful 4850 is this one?

Colorful has two diff coolers. Below is the dual-pipe version.

Source: Storm88 Bulk thread.

Ahh, my bad then. I thought Colorful only has one version which is the quad heat pipe one.

that wan is oc version?
storm88 sell wan is oc versionle

RV710 Architecture Disclosed

Radeon HD 4550 is going to ship at the end of September, but some of the documents have already been found, and the architecture of RV710 have been disclosed. The amount of transistors are 242 million, less than RV 730’s 514 million. This is because HD 4550 have only 80 shaders, and HD 4650 have 320 shaders.



There are two versions of ATI HD 4550, 512MB and 256MB versions. Both version have a reference board, 512MB is a full hight card and 256MB is a low profile. 512MB version have DVI/HDMI/DP output, and 256MB supports DVI/S-Video/D-Sub output. Both versions are running on 600/800MHz（Core/memory）.



Basically speaking, RV710 is a shrinked RV730, only two SIMD (single instruction multiple date) array, each of them have one texture unit. Inside each texture unit there are 4 Texture Address Unit, and 4 Texture Filter Unit. So in RV710 there are totally 8 TA and 8 TF units. Also there is only one Render Back End and memory bandwidth is lower to 64bit.

The price of Radeon HD 4550 512MB is about 49-59USD, and 256MB version is around 39-49USD.The rival of RV710 will be NVIDIA’s 9400GT.

Bottom line:
# It even beats the 9600gso which is a bonus (check anandtech for 9600gso getting trashed)
# It don’t need any power connector which makes it unique in that performance range (king)
# Is the best OEM/HTPC systems to this date. (king)
# Uses only 50/60 watts and is silent as a fart when am next to my galis.
# Less heat, more performance, DX10.1, silent, small, capable of 7.1 (sound) channel LPCM output over HDMI.
# Nvidia is going to use anther new sticker on old stock e.g. 9 series cards (9600gso), this time it will be the gt200 series e.g. gt260+.

well done AMD/ATi, its good for the customers (noobs), especially when they expect to buy new generation products (high number prefixes), with AMD that’s what they will get, unlike nvidia who use old cards with old technology but with new stickers (that’s a crime against knowledge).

Source

No idea, can't find any specification on that card. Though from the looks of it, should be OC-ed and looks like the bigger brother of the dual pipe model.

http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3818

Since it has 3phase power, dual BIOS and that heatsink is a Zalman VF1050

woah another yummy card 4 budgeted users

4550? kaozzz

its even beat 9600gso?
very powahfull card la

amd/ati really makes nvidia having a hard time for a long time

4550 won't be able to compete 9600GSO

direct competitor to 9400GT

AMD planning to take the entire GC market away? Low to high range lol.

They are conquering the GC world atm. No doubt. Until their rival wake up from sleep.

ati/amd really fierce this year

NVidia also fierce ma. Their pricing is scary.

haha, yeah, indeed.
as long as AMD can conquer the low-end and mainstream market, it will obtain high-end market eventually, coz nvidia can't earn much already, hahaha!

helo bro pikacu planing to change card again ar..... im also comfisu n dilema in choice which on 3 of this 4670 3850 n 9600GT since d price are 2 close ( rm 320/315/390)since i build a new rig now(e7200+asus p5ql-pro+2gb rams) ... all in hand now just without d VGA

This post has been edited by kenny79: Sep 28 2008, 08:14 PM

high end is just 4 the sake of good name...................
the real money maker is the mainstream market, consumer so called "bang for bucks".
of coz, it is easier 2 sell 4870/4850 is u hav 4870x2 on the king of the hill. consumer just trust u more.

AMD keep saying dat acquiring ATI is wat meks dem nearly bankrupt. i'll say, is the graphic division which save their @ss dis time.................

nVidia is losing loo... Price cannot match up, perf is matching, performance to price ratio also cant match up... Kesian our green friend... Time to go red!! MU!!! Oops, ATi... XD

i am building a similar system as well, but i read that 9600GT is way better than HD4670