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The ATI Radeon 4670 Roundup: MSI vs. Palit

By Kenny Yeo - 7 Nov 2008

Temperature, Power Consumption & Overclocking

Temperature

With both the MSI R4670 and Palit Radeon HD 4670 Super sporting such similar coolers, we expected the temperature measurements to be nearly identical. But that was not the case. While the measured temperatures of the rear of the GPU and memory chips were comparable, the core of the Palit Radeon HD 4670 Super was, significantly, 10 degrees Celsius warmer than that of the MSI R4670.

Power Consumption

The Radeon HD 4670 is a mainstream card, and the power consumption figures show. At load, both card clocked out at about 160W, which is significantly less than its more powerful siblings from the HD 4800 family. However, ATI could have done more to ensure lower idle power consumption because at around 90W, it is nearly the same as the previous generation HD 3850.

Overclocking

If there was one thing we didn't like about the Radeon HD 4670, it is the overclocking potential, or the lack of. With the MSI R4670, we managed to push the clock speeds of the core and memory up to only 800MHz and 2220MHz DDR, which isn't much. Likewise, it gave us a minor boost in performance.

With the Palit Radeon HD 4670 Super, its BIOS limited us to only a maximum overclock of 800MHz at the core and 2100MHz DDR at the memory. Again, we got only a slight boost in performance.

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