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.
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Tarun Iyer was a contributor for Tom's Hardware who wrote news covering a wide range of technology topics, including processors, graphics cards, cooling systems, and computer peripherals. He also covered tech trends such as the development of adaptive all-in-one PCs.
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ipwn3r456 Stop making new GPUs... HD 7790, HD 7870 XT, and now a HD 7730? What's next, HD 7710?Reply -
unknown9122 More GDDR5 goodness is always good. It will kill the 640s DDR3. I think this is too soon though.Reply -
spat55 nice little discrete card, although there is already the HD 7750 and 7770 for that right? They seem to trying to fill something that isn't really needed.Reply -
Martell1977 Maybe this will replace the 6670. I would think for cost efficiency they would want to get as many of their GPU's onto a single process(28nm) and architecture(GCN).Reply
I have a couple clients that this would be the perfect card for, well, if priced similar to the 6670 and with GDDR5. -
Martell1977 Maybe this will replace the 6670. I would think for cost efficiency they would want to get as many of their GPU's onto a single process(28nm) and architecture(GCN).Reply
I have a couple clients that this would be the perfect card for, well, if priced similar to the 6670 and with GDDR5. -
slyu9213 Well the 7750 equivalent wasn't the lowest video card last generation was it? The 7750 and 7770 are relatively cheap and perform well but there is always room for lower cards for people who want a discrete better than the integrated but not expensive.Reply
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. -
lloydloo Seems like a replacement for the hd 6670 gddr5 but amd didn't really need to make another new gpu because the hd 6670 gddr5 is still fast enough to compete with the gt 640 and adding this graphics card will just cannibalize sales.Reply -
lloydloo Seems like a replacement for the hd 6670 gddr5 but amd didn't really need to make another new gpu because the hd 6670 gddr5 is still fast enough to compete with the gt 640 and adding this graphics card will just cannibalize sales.Reply