AMD has rolled out its ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card, pitching the part as a low-cost entry into its top-of-the-line GPU range.
One of the first 4830-based boards out of the gate is Sapphire’s HD 4830, which clocks the GPU to 575MHz and links the core to 512MB of GDDR 3 memory running at 900MHz and sitting on a 256-bit bus.
The GPU contain 640 unified shader processor. It supports DirectX 10.1 gaming and incorporates AMD’s Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine for dedicated picture streams encoded using VC-1 and H.264 - the two key Blu-ray Disc codecs.
