AMD has been able to top Nvidia throughout the mid-range to high-end product markets with their Radeon 4800 series of cards topping Nvidia's best from the 4850 to the 4870 X2. Only with drastic price cuts have Nvidia remained competitive from what their GTX 260, 280, and 9800 GTX debuted at originally. Nvidia recently delved into the mid-range line of graphics cards with their new cards but ATI until now has yet to. Today we have a brand new 4000 series card to look at aimed at the sub-$100 market which as you'll see performs quite excellently. Let's take a look at AMD's Radeon HD 4670.

Here we see the new display port connectors featured on the 4670 which look quite a bit like SATA connectors.

The Radeon 4670 is similar in feature as with the other 4000 series cards with UVD2 for HD decoding, DX 10.1 support, 55nm second gen manufacturing process, integrated HD audio on HDMI and DisplayPort, CrossfireX, PCI-Express 2.0 are all here as they were with the 4850 and 4870 video cards.

Hynix memory is featured on the card.

Looking at the specs of the card it is actually quite similar to the Radeon 3800 cards which were ATI's best in the previous generation. The Radeon HD 4670 features an engine clock speed of 750MHz and 1GHz (2GHz effective) for the 512MB GDDR3 version and 1GB for the 900MHz (1.8GHz effective) version. Both feature two dual-link DVI output and TV output and consume under 75W. The Radeon 4650 features an engine clock speed of 600MHz and a memory speed of 500Hz with 512MB of DDR2 but we did not have one to test today.

So not much new technically but a stripped down version of the 4800s basically with the same amount of stream processors as the 3870 and 3850.