AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 14, 2009 @07:06AM from the sheer-necessity dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD announced today that they can lay claim to the world's first 1GHz graphics processor with their ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU. There's been no formal announcement made about what partners will be selling the 1GHz variant, but AMD does note that Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE, XFX and others are all aligning to release higher performance cards." The new card, says AMD, delivers 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power.

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Dear AMD, intel, nVidia, etc by Yvan256 · 2009-05-14 07:25 · Score: 3, Insightful

As you may have seen from the sales of netbooks and low-power computers, the future is... wait for it... low-power devices!
Where are the 5W GPUs? Does the nVidia 9400M require more than 5W?