PowerColor Radeon HD 7730 1GB Graphics Card Review
Aliens Vs. Predator
“Aliens vs. Predator, also known by fans as Aliens vs. Predator 3 or AVP3 to distinguish it from earlier titles, is a 2010 video game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Sega for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is a sequel to Aliens versus Predator 2, although it does not have any connection with that game’s plot. Instead it charts events on the planet BG-386, where a Weyland-Yutaniresearch team led by Karl Bishop Weyland has discovered aYautja Pyramid, and is simultaneously studying the Xenomorphs found there and hoping to unlock the advanced technology contained within. The Aliens soon escape, prompting a response from the United States Colonial Marine Corps, while the Predators also send three of their member to investigate.” From Avp.wikia.com
not bad, not bad at all, hopefully those new apu’s will support the 7730 in hybrid crossfire, DO not buy the ddr3 version, its wasting money, make sure and buy the gddr5 version, you can purchase a 6670 gddr5 for around £45, if you shop around, so £50-£55 for this card is spot on, thanks for the review Eteknix, spot on as usual.
shame you don’t compare against the 6670 🙁 – would love to know how much of an upgrade this would be to a GDDR5 version of the 6670 my kids have
I am sorry we couldn’t get a HD 6670 in as they are too old for vendors to provide them. I did however find this – http://media.bestofmicro.com/H/K/394616/original/Average-Perf.png which shows that GDDR5 vs GDDR5 you’re looking at about 7.5-10% more for the HD 7730. Power consumption is more or less identical too. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7730-cape-verde-review,3575.html I’d definitely encourage you not to bother making the upgrade from the HD 6670. It really isn’t worth it, I’d say the minimum you should consider is a HD 7750, ideally a HD 7770 if you really want to see a noticeable improvement. The HD 7730 compared to the HD 6670 is just a generational boost, nothing significant, but since it comes in at a similar price if you made any new builds i’d definitely get this over the HD 6670 if the price is right.
thank you! if you want to borrow one – im sure my kids could `lose` there pc for a few days 😉 – but I guess your right about either a 750/70 or maybe even waiting!
My 6570 has 480 stream processors, how is it going to phase out the 6670?
More processors doesn’t mean more performance. The HD 6670 is about 10% faster than the HD 6570. The HD 7730 is about 7.5-10% faster than the HD 6670.
Stop comparing SPUs (stream processing units) between generations. The GCN SPUs in the HD7000 are MUCH more powerful than those in the HD6000 and HD 5000. Heck, this little 7730 DESTROYS my HD4650 which has around 320 SPUs. Just like my 800 SPUs HD5770 gets torn apart by the 640 SPUs HD7770.
On NVIDIAs side, their GTX 600 take around twice the number of cuda cores compared to the GTX 500 in order to be as powerful. HOWEVER, the kepler cores are much more energy efficient and thus, the 650ti is on par with the 560ti. But it consumes around 75% less energy then the 560ti