AMD’s launch of HD 4000 series cards hit the industry with a big boom. Not only that, the HD 4870 is able to perform close to, or in some instances better than, the NVIDIA GTX 280. Also, it is selling at cheaper price than the GTX 280. So finally, the graphics war, in which NVIDIA has enjoyed dominance for awhile, is heating up again.

As usual, after the initial launch of the high-end cards, manufactures will make some modification, disable certain features, and tweak their chips to produce mainstream and budget graphic cards. For AMD, the HD 4670 is their budget derivative that stems from their HD 4800. This card, which sells at retail for $80, is in direct competition to the NVIDIA 9500GT that was launched last month. We have previously looked at Foxconn’s 9500 GT and today we will put the cards against each other to see if we can give some insights to our readers who are in the market for a new budget card.