Video cards with a new name for ATI

"NVIDIA is not the only one to choose to change its name to its video cards, ATI Radeon series moves to the HD 4000 cards in advance of the family Radeon HD 3000"


NVIDIA's intention to make a change of its brand for some video cards mid, previously identified as the NVIDIA 9 series.

This type of intervention on video cards are already available for some time on the market does not seem to be attributable solely to NVIDIA. Even ATI, in fact, is moving in this direction with the new release of Catalyst 9.1 drivers, made available last week.

In. Inf contained in drivers, according to what is found on some website , involved names of the cards Radeon HD 4000 family at RV630 and RV610 GPUs, models belonging to the previous set of Radeon HD 3000 products. This contained within the file. Inf driver Catalyst 9.1:

"ATI Radeon HD 4230" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_95C5
"ATI Radeon HD 4230" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_95C5
"ATI Radeon HD 4250" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_95C5
"ATI Radeon HD 4250" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_95C5
"ATI Radeon HD 4250" = ati2mtag_RV610, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_95C0
"ATI Radeon HD 4570" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9598
"ATI Radeon HD 4580" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9598
"ATI Radeon HD 4730" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9505
"ATI Radeon HD 4730" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9505
"ATI Radeon HD 4750" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9505
"ATI Radeon HD 4750" = ati2mtag_RV630, PCI \ VEN_1002 & DEV_9505


With the rebranding of the ATI GPU is now available cards Radeon HD of series 4200, 4500 and 4700, the first cards are generated by Radeon HD 3400, the second card from the Radeon HD 3600 and Radeon HD 4700 that always come from the family of GPUs RV630 commercially proposals so far as the Radeon HD 3600.

It clear that this type of intervention aimed at making more attractive to users by time cards on the market, but does nothing but cause confusion among users. A Radeon HD 4750 card based on RV630 architecture, can you think of a little preparation is faster than the Radeon HD 4670 draft board, which has in fact aligned with performance of the proposed Radeon HD 3850 which is far faster than any GPU based on RV630 architecture.

a few days ago I read that on this file, the HD 4730 and HD 4750 were assigned to RV630 is ... but perhaps would have been the first with RV740 ...

It is short ... who should you believe?

perhaps it would be better to wait before March "think wrong". If they jump out that it was all a refuse?

One sees that ATI did not want to be less than Nvidia, and so there is confusion and cheat for all