AMD introduces the ATI Radeon HD 4770 with new RV740 GPU, developed in 40nm tehnology. New GPU belongs to HD4000 family and it comes with 512MB GDDR5 video memory, and a double-height cooler allows video card to operate at 750MHz, The 40nm manufacturing process seems to have advantages in two areas: bringing power consumption to a more manageable level of around 80W under load and allowing core to run at reasonably high clocks. At idle, the Radeon HD 4770 reference build recorded a warm 54°C, and under load that number raised to 76°C.

According to GPU specifications new graphics card belongs in sub-$100 class, targeting HTPC builders and everyday gamers,

Other Specs:

• 826 million transistors on 40nm fabrication process
• 32-bit floating point texture filterin
• Shader Model 4.1 support
• 960 GFLOPS
• Dual-Slot Active Cooler
• 7.1 Audio Channel Support
• Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs