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PRESS RELEASE
     

September, 2008

        
         

Highly affordable MSI R4650 and MSI R4670 Graphics Cards
Power efficient without performance loss
 

 

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Today, MSI will launch its R4600 series and push price-performance ratio to a whole new level with MSI R4650 and MSI R4670 graphics cards. MSI R4600 series graphics card utilizes ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 series GPU core (Codename RV730), with 320 stream processors. The main GPU specifications are similar to the previous generation of high-end ATI Radeon™ HD 3870/3850 products. Coupled with MSI R4800 architecture and an advanced second-generation 55nm manufacture process, MSI R4600 series provides three times the performance of ATI Radeon™ HD 3650 with the same power consumption. The Anti-Aliasing performance has also significantly improved. It enables gamers to enjoy the delicate quality of DirectX® 10 games with a highly affordable price.

Home theatre grade audio and video playback
Integrated with the ATI PowerPlay power-saving technology, MSI R4800 provides twice the performance enhancement with the same watt so it suits MSI ECOlution campaign very well. The MSI R4800 series graphics cards are also equipped with the enhanced version of UVD 2.0 video decoder core. High performance, energy efficient, and HD video experience are the main features of MSI R4800 series graphics cards.

MSI R4600 series offers a wide range of products for different needs. MSI R4670-2D512/D3 is suitable for gamers who need great performance during gaming. MSI R4650-D512 is suitable to be build in a HTPC (Home Theatre PC).High performance graphics cards are not expensive; MSI R4600 series comes with the best price and performance and will soon become the new hot products available in the market.

GPU

MSI R4670-2D512/D3

MSI R4650-D512

Codename

RV730XT

RV730Pro

Stream Processors

320

320

Core Clock

750 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Size

512MB GDDR3

512MB GDDR2

Memory Bus

128 bits

128 bits

Memory type

16M x 32

32M x 16

DirectX Version

DirectX 10.1

DirectX 10.1

DVI Port

2x Dual-Link DVI-I

Dual-Link DVI-I

CrossFireX support

Yex up to 4x GPU's

No

Bus Type

PCI Express 2.0

PCI Express 2.0

HDMI

Yes (via adapter)

Yes (via adapter)

HDCP

Yes

Yes

Solid Capacitors

Yes

Yes

Thermal Solution

Active Cooling with Copper based Heatsink

Active Cooling with Copper based Heatsink

TDP

<75W

<60W


For more information about price and availability, please contact a local official MSI distributor.

About MSI

MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products. The product lines of MSI are motherboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the ultimate performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity. We distribute our products through offices located in The Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Poland, France, Russia,Taiwan, United States, Canada, Brazil,  Japan, China, Korea, Australia, United Kingdom and India.
MSI markets its products to distributors, computer system manufacturers, and system integrators. For more information visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.msi.eu.

Mystar Computer BV (MSI in the Netherlands) was established in 1998. Having its own facility in Son near Eindhoven, it handles all marketing, sales, logistics and after-sales-service for its customers throughout Europe.

For more information regarding this release please contact:
Mystar Computer BV
Chantal Mentrop, Marketing Communication Officer
Tel: + 31 40 267 66 32 / Fax: +31 40 267 66 22
E-mail: chantal.mentrop@msi.eu; Internet: www.msi.eu