Perhaps most noteworthy amongst RV740's
credentials is its place as the first 40 nanometre graphics core to hit the
desktop GPU market, giving it obvious power usage and size advantages over the
55 nanometre process used by the rest of the Radeon HD 4000 series thus far.
Into this 40 nanometre core is packed 826 million transistors, an obvious
reduction from the 956 million sported by RV770. Naturally, as per its
predecessors RV740 supports DirectX 10.1 and PCI Express 2.0, and again
features tessellation hardware which won't see support in an official API until
the release of DirectX 11. @ Elite Bastards
