Since the market is currently concentrated on the high-end cards and the never ending struggle over the top performance throne, we decided to shift our attention to a board that will not cost you an arm and a leg, ATI's mid-range Radeon HD 4670. Now ATI's Radeon HD 4670 is comparable to NVIDIA's GeForce 9500 GT, and back when it was launched, the Radeon HD 4670 card literally buried the GeForce 9500 GT. Today we decided to take a look at Club3D's non reference Radeon HD 4670 card that has a dual slot cooling solution which should make this card much less noisy, and of course cooler than the reference board which we tested before. That alone is already a great added value - FudZilla

Club3D Radeon HD 4670 512MB Version Style Review

As we compared it to the GeForce 9500 GT card before, today we will put it up against some more expensive cards, for example the GeForce 9600 GT. Unlike all of these boards, this Radeon HD 4670 doesn't need an additional power connector and the PCB is much shorter. The card is based on a 55nm core, and its main advantage is low power consumption and no need for additional power, which makes the Radeon HD 4670 is a very attractive card in the upgrade and OEM markets. It is a PCI Express 2.0 card that has DirectX 10.1 support, thanks to a core that's a crippled version of the high-end RV770 architecture.

We already mentioned that RV730 is a weaker and cheaper version of the RV770 architecture, and although it's cooler it's nowhere near as powerful. As far as the Radeon HD 4670's features go, you will find that they are just identical to those of much pricier Radeon HD 4800 generation. Even with filters on, you should still be able to play games at mid-range resolutions, and maybe even higher but with filters off of course. Just like the rest of these Radeon HD 4800 series, this card supports CrossFireX multi GPU technology. Club3D has decided to strap a dual slot cooler which has a larger fan and should have superior performance.

The core of this board works at reference 750MHz, it has 320 stream processors and the 512MB of GDDR3 memory are clocked at just 2000MHz effective. It's important to note that the Radeon HD 4670 comes with a 128-bit memory bus. The card's cooler is very quiet, as some of the 120mm fans that we had in the chassis produced more noise than the cooler on the card. The card is packed in a small black box with all the details and features listed on the back. The card is tightly wrapped in a bubble bag and the rest of the accessories can be found below in a separate compartment and it is a rather modest bundle.

Now Club3D has three versions of the Radeon HD 4670 card, one with 1GB of memory, and two with 512MB of GDDR3 memory. The one that we tested works at 2000MHz for the memory while the other version has a lower clock set at 1746MHz. The lower clocked one also has a bit different cooler and the memory isn’t cooled. The Club3D Radeon HD 4670 512MB currently sells for $99, which is a bit high considering the fact that you can find a similar clocked card from some other partner as low as $79. But you must note that Club3D's card has a non reference cooling solution that does a great job in cooling this card.

Some GeForce 9500 GT are a bit cheaper but as you could see in our previous article, the Radeon HD 4670 had no trouble beating that card. The GeForce 9600 GT on the other hand sells for about the same price, but the one that we tested, BFG's GeForce 9600 GT OCX is factory overclocked and costs at over $119. The Radeon HD 4760 has a decent GPU and it might be a best card for an home theater PC, as it has support for HDMI and it can cope with almost anything that you throw at it, even Crysis on low resolutions. Of course it won't be the fastest graphics card but that isn't its purpose neither.

The fact that it doesn't need an external power, doesn't heat up much and always stays on the quiet side means quite lot in home theater or living room PC's in smaller chassis. Once the price drops a bit, this card will be a great catch, but until then we simply can’t recommend it unless you are on a limited budget.