ATI Radeon HD 4350 versus EVGA GeForce 9400GT :: ATI Radeon HD 4350 card

ATI sent a reference card with nothing else so I won’t talk about the bundle of this card. The HD 4350 is a low profile PCI Express 2.0 video card meaning that it will fit in almost any case and motherboard designed to have a PCI Express video card in it. The card has a tiny fan that covers the graphics chip. As the card doesn’t have a lot of heat due to its small graphics chip, there isn’t a heatsink on the card.

Cooling

Rear of Front

Front of card

Connector

There are two 1024 Megabit memory chips on the front of the card next to the fan. Each chip is clocked at 500MHz, giving a total of 256MB of DDR2 memory rated at 2ns. The ATI reference card doesn’t have a Crossfire bridge so to install more than a single card requires Hybrid Crossfire. The rear of the card has the circuitry for the card, the fan mounting bracket and the Part Number sticker.

Memory chips

Rear of PCB

Head on view

IO

The IO on the card has a single Dual-Link DVI connector, a VGA connector and a TV-Out connector. There is a cable connecting the VGA to the PCB of the card as the card isn’t tall enough to reach the VGA connector by itself. Two CRT monitors, a CRT and a LCD monitor, a TV and a LCD monitor is possible with the various connections on the IO.