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AMD recently announced the availability of a factory-over clocked graphics processor that is the first to break the 1 Gigahertz (GHz) barrier using standard air-cooling solutions. With this product, AMD achieves a notable engineering milestone. The new ATI Radeon HD 4890 utilises advanced GDDR5 memory and a 1-GHz clock speed to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power, 50 percent more than that of the competition’s best single-GPU solution. With this level of raw computing power, the 1-GHz ATI Radeon HD 4890 is set to deliver new levels of general purpose GPU-accelerated performance in ATI Stream applications such as video transcoding and post processing.
 This new version of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 marks the latest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series delivered by AMD’s technology partners Sapphire, XFX, Asus and TUL. The advanced design of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 delivers an excellent gaming experience in the latest games, including ground-breaking DirectX 10.1 titles such as Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s HAWX, Electronic Art’s BattleForge and SEGA’s Stormrise released last month as well as GSC Gameworld’s STALKER: Clear Sky. When compared to DirectX 10 game play, DirectX 10.1 games have proven to deliver higher game performance and an improved visual experience. In addition, these cards feature support for open standards like OpenGL3 with DirectX 10-like hardware extensions, and the recently ratified OpenCL specification. |
