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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Re:Power consumption? by HTH+NE1 · 2009-05-14 11:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's a waste of power. Do a luke-warm water heater and half the work is done for you.

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Re:Why is it harder on GPUs than CPUs? by feepness · 2009-05-14 12:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

Pity some CPU maker couldn't come along, buy a GPU maker, and make something like this.
ATI is owned by AMD.