AMD has announced the first factory over clocked air cooled GPU to reach the 1 GHz mark, the ATI Radeon HD 4890. While this mark may have been reached by overclockers using other graphics processors, the HD 4890 would not need any complex cooling solutions and works fine with the air cooling unit that comes standard. Also, since overclocking voids the warranty (even if it is hard to detect), the HD 4890's warranty should prove beneficial.
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Here is an overview of the features:
Tear through the latest games with seamless frame rates and go beyond HD1 with the power of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics processing unit (GPU). Building on the strength of the ATI Radeon™ 4800 series award-winning architecture, this GPU stands out from the rest with massive graphics processing muscle. Take ultimate control over your game and crank it up with scalable performance. Go ahead, max out the settings and put the ATI Radeon HD 4890 through its paces.
- With 800 stream processors, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 has the brute strength needed to tackle the latest 3D games.
- Unparalleled anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering deliver eye-popping graphics with striking realism.
- Equipped with the fastest, most advanced GDDR5 memory technology, this GPU supports higher data rates which translates directly into superior performance and maximum memory bandwidth.
- Get right in the action and experience cinematic gaming at extreme HD resolutions with mind-blowing performance in the latest DirextX®10.1 games.
- Personalize your experience with state of the art overclocking capabilities, advanced system monitoring and amazing control. Tune your system in real-time and push the performance envelope with the ATI OverDrive™ utility.
- Take your game to new heights with ATI CrossFireX™ technology and enjoy superior scalability with up to quad GPU support.
- Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed.
Video showcasing the Radeon HD 4890:
This card is not exciting considering an upcoming 4770x2 variant offers better performance for a lesser price.
Even the current £400 high end cards are on something like 600MHz or 575MHz clock speed.
Sure the clocks are the same, but the newest gpu's have 2x more shaders.
It's like a dual core vs quad core CPU at clock for clock tests, which do you think will win?
I'm actually trading my older 4850 (runs hot/loud) to someone for a 4770 that I recommended to him. Then I'm saving up a lil bit of money to buy another 1 for CF. Would personally rather have 2 4770s that run cooler/quieter then 2 4850s (even if i would get more FPS outa the latter).
AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890
Can they possibly make it any longer?
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html...W50aHVzaWFzdA==
http://hothardware.com/articles/ATI-Radeon...RV790-Unveiled/
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo/index.ph...id=57&Itemid=43
...Nah I'll stick with NVIDIA
Last edited by WAR-DOG on 14 May 2009 - 16:22
That would be completely useless if a) you have a case like the Antec 1200 with the PSU on the bottom! or b) you wanted 2 of these cards in crossfire!
Funny how they keep saying DX 10.1 when I've only seen very few games that support this current feature since Nvidia alone doesn't use it themselves.
I rather they focus on better heat dissipation instead of just focusing on o/c with the same tech features. Then I can just o/c it myself and save having to pay them more for there work.
The real milestone was when 8800 GT came out and set the scale for card pricing. I remember buying a Radeon 1900 XTX for 700 canadian compared to the now 300 for 8800 GT with twice the performance.
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