ATI Radeon HD 4670

List this one in the "Didn't see that one coming" category. The ATI Radeon HD 4670 is a surprisingly good graphics card for the $79 price tag. I tested the vanilla version of the 4670 and was pleased to discover that it produced decent frames rates in gaming benchmarks. In 3DMark Vantage, it cranked out an impressive E7054.

The claim by ATi that this is a card that offers the same performance as some higher-end cards is perhaps stretching it a bit, however (props to the PR folks for a nice efforts, though). Sure, it can handle DX10 gaming, so long as the game's quality settings and resolution are set low.

As far as ports go, our unit had one DVI port and two DisplayPort outputs.

For serious gamers, the 4670 isn't going to cut it. But if you grab a pair of them to use in a CrossFire configuration, you may find that you can squeeze out some high-quality gaming performance.

by Seth Colaner

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Computer Power User January 2009