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The official existence of AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 chips has been confirmed, with a number of graphics cards using the latest-gen GPU arriving today. Diamond Multimedia announced their HD 4870 card, which occupies two slots, uses the PCIE 2.0 interface and is fitted with 512MB of GDDR5 memory. It runs at 725MHz while the [...]
One of AMD’s upcoming ATI Radeon video cards using the RV770 GPU, first tipped in May, has slipped out early and delivered some details into the hands of HotHardware. The ATI Radeon HD 4850 features 800 stream processors packed onto a 55nm GPU with a 625MHz clock speed. As expected, there’s 512MB of 993MHz GDDR3 RAM [...]
AMD can hardly contain their excitement with the news that their FireStream 9250 processor has broken the 1 teraflop barrier. Fitted to the FireStream 9250 graphics card, it handles not only video output but can work in tandem with the main CPU to accelerate complex calculations. And unlike its 9170 predecessor, it [...]
AMD has announced an update for one of its ATI Radeon dual-head graphics cards, especially optimizing it for use with Apple’s Mac Pro system. The HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition has a 56-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer memory and 320 stream processors, together with two DVI outputs for plugging in some large-scale Cinema HD monitors.
As well as the Puma platform, AMD have also launched their ATI XGP eXternal Graphics Platform at Computex. In effect an external PCI Express 2.0 video card in a standalone enclosure, it relies on a self-latching, easy-connecting PCIe 2.0 cable and, once hooked up, can run up to 4 displays. It also comes with HDMI with [...]
ASUS continued their assault on the budget computing market this week, with the Eee PC 900 finally launching in the US while its Intel Atom powered sibling the PC 901 broke cover. We also saw a live photo of the Eee Box B202, a desktop version. It looks as though the rumors of a separate [...]
AMD is set to replace a large percentage of its current video card range starting from next month, according to a recent leak, as the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series supersedes the existing 3800 series. Key improvements will be the inclusion of AMD’s GPGPU physics processing, hitherto limited to the high-end cards, and improved HD [...]
HP Compaq has announced two new business desktop PCs, the dc5850 and dx2450, which will be available with AMD’s Athlon X2, Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 processors, themselves freshly branded as ”AMD Business Class processors”. The dc5850 has ATI Radeon 3100 graphics and AMD’s own Cool’n’Quiet 2.0 technology, and can be specified with up to 8GB RAM and with [...]
Its been a lot of work, but Ageia has finished porting over their technology from a stand-alone API to CUDA so it can run on NVIDIA’s GeForce 8000 series and up cards. It’s still going through Quality Assurance, but after that your NVIDIA card will double as a Physics Accelerator for your games, of which [...]
I received the VisionTek Radeon HD 3870, which happens to be the first DX10 card we’ve reviewed here at SlashGear. Unfortunately this means that we do not have a suitable card to compare benchmarks to. Don’t worry though, we’ll have more in the future for comparison.
