AMD announces first TeraFLOPS GPU
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AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced the launch of the first teraFLOPS graphics card, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4850, and the launch of the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870. The cards feature DirectX® 10.1 compatibility. Both the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 are immediately available for customers at an amazing $299 for the 4870 and $199 for the 4850.
The ATI Radeon(tm) HD 4870 - 1.2 teraFLOPS of visual compute power. It features a stock GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR5 memory rated at 3.6 gigabits/second, and comes in a dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration.
The ATI Radeon(tm) HD 4850 - World’s first teraFLOPS graphics chip, with 800 stream processing cores (identical to the ATI Radeon HD 4870), a stock GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory rated at 2 gigabits/second, and comes in a single-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration.
IMG: The ATI Radeon 4870, $299
The ATI Radeon 4800 series represents a 2X performance jump over the ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 GPU, the biggest generational increase since the launch of the Radeon™ 9700 in 2002 according to AMD. The company also said that the ATI Radeon 4800 series sets a new industry standard in key metrics such as performance-per-watt, performance-per-mm2 of chip die size, and performance-per-dollar.
SOURCE:BusinessWire
