Factory overclocked Radeon breaks the 1GHz barrier

by Stevie Smith - May 14 2009, 15:15

The ongoing battle for graphical superiority between ATI and NVIDIA takes another turn this week following the release of ATI’s new factory-overclocked Radeon HD 4890, which arrives puffing its chest out after “achieving the notable engineering milestone” of breaking through the 1GHz barrier.

Described as the first ever consumer-targeted graphics processing unit to surpass the 1GHz marker, the new variant Radeon HD 4890 is an air-cooled slab of well-oiled hardware that promises extreme performance for power hungry rig enthusiasts and hardcore computer game aficionados.

According to AMD, the HD 4890 utilises advanced GDDR5 memory alongside its 1GHz clock speed in order to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of computing power, which it claims is 50 percent more than that of the competition’s best single-GPU solution.

“Throughout the 40-year history of AMD, we have continually focused on technology firsts that deliver superior value to the customer,” enthused Rick Bergman, senior vice president of AMD’s Products Group.

“The 1GHz ATI Radeon HD 4890 continues that tradition by increasing the performance and compute power of our flagship single-GPU solution, ensuring a great experience whether our customers are playing the latest DirectX 10.1 game or running GPU accelerated applications built with OpenCL,” he added.

While AMD has not yet formally announced pricing or partner-based availability for its overclocked beast, the GPU’s official press release does reference various industry heavyweights and their positively glowing praise of the HD 4890’s contributory worth.

Some of those within AMD’s ecosystem likely to be offering the unit’s overclocked muscle include, ASUSTeK Computer, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, MSI, Sapphire, TUL Corp., and XFX.

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