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AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Why is it harder on GPUs than CPUs? by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is it harder to raise the clock frequenceies on GPUs than CPUs? Is more code in use at the same time per unit area, or?

    1. Re:Why is it harder on GPUs than CPUs? by powerlord · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Pity there isn't a GPU socket on the motherboard the same as the CPU socket. Then we COULD use those big honking CPU cooling solutions (or some derivative of them), provided the case were designed to accommodate the board. You could also get high speed runs between memory (perhaps it could have its own bank), and the CPU.

      Pity some CPU maker couldn't come along, buy a GPU maker, and make something like this.

      (of course existing GPU solutions in slots are MUCH easier to upgrade, which is something against this sort of solution, unless they come out with a form factor that combines Chip+Cooling solution (similar to the old Slot1/A)

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  2. Re:AMD CPU too by LoRdTAW · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry. It was Compaq who owned the Alpha at that time. It was still DEC who designed it though.