Hexus ponders what GPU would make a good Radeon HD 5770 from AMD?
An age-old method of reducing costs is to snip the memory-interface width. We'd bet on a 192-bit bus supplanting the 256-bit on the HD 58xx GPUs. Now we're at it, snipping the frame-buffer to 768MBs of GDDR5 doesn't sound like a bad idea, either.
Putting ourselves in AMD's shoes, we'd keep this architecture and clock it in lower for the Radeon HD 5750, priced at around £115. If we're really nasty, we'd chop bandwidth to 128 bits, but that's probably the preserve of the Radeon HD 55xx GPU.
Legion Hardare has posted a review of the HIS Radeon HD 4890 iCooler x4. As you can see here Radeon HD 4890 prices are starting to get cheap with the 5850 rolling out today.
The HIS Radeon HD 4890 iCooler x4 is not simply just another Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. Furthermore it is not just another Radeon HD 4890 with an improved cooler. Rather the Radeon HD 4890 iCooler x4 is a re-engineered version of the Radeon HD 4890 featuring an improved power plant, and this is what helped to make our overclocking ventures so successful.
