Thread: AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770

While we continue the season without a new architecture-level graphics chip, manufacturers will not stand idly by and developments are happening before our eyes today we face a new very important turning point for the world figure. The first VGA with a chip manufactured using a 40nm manufacturing process.

The AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770, despite not being a tremendously powerful VGA comes to fulfill two very important goals for the company. Start migration of manufacturing to 40nm smoothly and get a very competitive product for the company level costs and HD 4770 is that this seems entirely conceived by economic strategists like AMD and their processors appears that their goal is to sell all they can make the best profit margin possible.

This card has the smallest chip that is or at least more dense in number of transistors, so, for each wafer manufacturer takes more functional heads and therefore the manufacturing cost is very small, although of course there you take development costs of the new process and pay the pieces of a micron process migration that always gives a low percentage of right products at the first batches.

Those is why Intel in their tactics Tick Tockalways changing architecture and then once known and purified change microns can be expressed in reverse and say that once dominated the manufacturing process change the architecture. This attempts to minimize failures due to excessive changes in a moment.

In fact as all the comments suggest that HD 4770 replaces the old and expensive to manufacture HD 4830 and will not stay far from the HD 4850 and that despite having fewer stream processors than its core functions MHz made to compensate the differences.