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ATI Radeon HD 4850 escapes early, gets benchmarked & impresses

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 20th 2008 No Comments

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 linked with a 256-bit memory bus. Of course, when you’re holding a pre-release card you don’t just sit & grin at it; you slap it into a test system and benchmark it against some of NVIDIA’s latest rivals.

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 13th 2008 No Comments

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.

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Gateway M-152XL 15.4-inch notebook: Unboxing & Review

By Chris Davies and Ewdison Then on Wednesday, Jun 11th 2008 No Comments

In a week when full-sized notebooks have wrenched back the focus from their budget ultraportable brethren, we’ve had Gateway’s M-152XL on the SlashGear test bench. With a 15.4-inch widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 processor and separate ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, packed into a 6.2 pound chassis, Gateway’s latest is really looking to take pride of place as a desktop replacement. It’s a competitive niche in the sector, though, so is the M-152XL up to the task?

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ATI Radeon HD 4800-series leaks: June launch for next-gen graphics

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 15th 2008 No Comments

ATI Radeon logo 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 video decoding that takes the strain off the main CPU. Certain models will also be able to route 7.1 surround sound via HDMI.

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New ATI Radeon cards leaked

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 26th 2007 No Comments

So there is the Radeon HD 3450, 3470, and 3650 the loose specs of each were leaked out over the internet on Christmas. The cheapest, at about $50, is the 3450 featuring an RV620 core with 525MHz core and 256MB of memory and DisplayPort for HD video.

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Toshiba Dynabook satellite TXW/69DW

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 26th 2007 No Comments

So not to long ago we learned of ATI’s new 3800 series graphics cards, and already Toshiba is dropping a notebook with the mobile versions of those chips in it. Its Japan only, but still, that’s a pretty quick turn around time.

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It’s a 15.4” Dynabook with the HD 3800 chip in it, the Intel PM 965 Express chipset, and a Core 2 Duo T7500 processor. Not a bad show for what I believe is the first notebook to feature the ATI Radeon HD 3800 chipset, I wonder how much video RAM it comes with and whether its GDDR3 or GDDR4.

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nVidia drops 8800M in GTS and GTX versions

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Nov 20th 2007 No Comments

That means you can start expecting to see the new mobile graphics chips in your favorite high end laptop manufacturers product lines. They both work with DX9 and DX10 and include PowerMizer tech to keep power usage down when you aren’t gaming or watching HD content.

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I had the pleasure of toying around with the Alienware laptop we got in the other day, and I must admit, I am impressed with how far mobile graphics has come. I mean, my last laptop had 64MB of shared graphics memory on a Radeon 9600 chipset, needless to say these chips, and those in the Alienware are a significant improvement.

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AMD Spider platform – maximizing your computing potential by creating a complete platform

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 19th 2007 No Comments

So today, AMD released the worlds first comprehensive PC building platform, it involves a specific chipset, processor, and graphics solution, all three of which come from AMD. The platform has been given the codename of Spider.

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The platform is based on the upcoming Quad-Core Phenom processors from AMD, as well as AMD’s 7 series chipset. Then to round out the set they included the new ATI Radeon 3800 series graphics cards.

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Dell XPS ONE on sale now

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Nov 16th 2007 No Comments

The prices are from $1499 to $2399 in one of 4 pre-configured configurations. The max out with an Intel C2D E6550, 2GB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, an 8-in-1 card reader, WiFi in a/b/g/n flavors, a 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO, and a half terabyte 7200 RPM HDD.

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Not a bad computer all in, its just too bad Dell doesn’t have a brain of their own and they have to not only leech PC designs from other companies (Apple, Gateway), but they also have to go so far as to steal the name too (Gateway ONE). God, I hope to god that Gateway sues their asses off.

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AMD finally drops 3800 series ATI Radeon HD cards

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Nov 15th 2007 No Comments

The new 3850 and 3870 Radeon HD cards are offering up the same features as the 2600 series, but at a cheaper price. These cards have DX10 support, albeit according to OpenGL 2.0 features.

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They also offer up support for CrossFire X which allows up to 4 of these cards to be slapped together in some sort of dual CrossFire configuration. The 55nm core allows these cards to offer up nearly double the performance per watt compared to the 2600 series, which means they can work cooler, and even without active cooling.

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