MSI Radeon HD 7730 Surfaces in China
An MSI branded version of AMD's Radeon HD 7730 has surfaced on Coolaler.com and is evidently on sale in China.
An MSI branded version of the Radeon HD 7730 has evidently gone on sale in China and has been unofficially benchmarked by Coolaler.com user “Toppc.” The Radeon HD 7730 seems to be based on AMD’s 28 nm “Cape Verde” architecture, features 448 stream processors based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture, 16 ROPs and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 128-bit memory.
The graphics card features a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a memory clock of 1,125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective). With these specifications in mind, we can speculate that the HD 7730 is a budget offering that may be intended to compete with Nvidia’s GeForce GT 640. However, it is still unknown as to whether the graphics card will have a global release and what its retail price will be.


I have a couple clients that this would be the perfect card for, well, if priced similar to the 6670 and with GDDR5.
I have a couple clients that this would be the perfect card for, well, if priced similar to the 6670 and with GDDR5.
The next gen video cards are delayed a bit so why not make a few more video cards for different performance levels.
I won't use this but it may be okay for people who want to go cheaper.
How much room is there? AMD's new APUs are expected to top out around HD6650 performance and Intel's GT3e might edge that out. That does not leave much room for anything really worth looking into below HD7750.
Only one more month to go until we find out how well GT3e will fare and how dead low-end discrete GPUs might be.
I would guess in Asia it will be sold in retail and it maybe only sold as OEM in the rest of the world. It seems to be a good card for an HTPC. More powerful than the HD 7670, but more importantly consumes less power and generate less heat.
If a single-slot cooler was good enough for an 8800GTX, it's good enough for this tiddler.
I have genuine hate for the "fashion" for oversized coolers on low-end GPUs