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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. Re:AMD CPU too by Ceseuron · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it was IBM that broke the 1Ghz CPU barrier.

    It's not really a huge feat to break the 1Ghz "barrier" for a GPU anyway. And since it's AMD product, it'll run hot as hell and require a massive heatsink. You'll be able to barbecue a steak on your CrossFire enabled rig with two of these installed. Since it's also ATi, the card itself will be really awesome but the drivers released will be buggy and unstable, turning the card into little more than a giant red paperweight.

  2. Still an ATI by wiedzmin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Still, it's an ATI... I'll just wait a couple days for nVidia to come out with a better card.

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