Introduction
When AMD announced its attention to focus on mainstream graphics processors, we thought the manufacturer was nuts. Why surrender the top end of the market to arch-rival Nvidia? It took a year, but AMD proved us wrong: The Radeon HD 4770 delivers the best price/performance ratio we’ve seen in a very long time.
How did AMD pack so much performance in a chip that can be mounted on a video card with 512MB of GDDR5 memory that sells for just over a hundred bucks? The company’s engineers took advantage of a new 40nm manufacturing process at the chip foundry TSMC to create an entirely new graphics processor: The RV740. This process enabled them to pack the RV740’s transistors extremely close together, resulting in a chip that’s nearly as powerful as AMD’s costlier Radeon HD 4850, despite being almost half its size.

Fast, cool, and cheap are characteristics we like to see in a video card, and the Radeon HD 4770 clearly boasts all three.

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