What can you get for a hundred bucks these days? - ATI introduces the Radeon 4770
Posted by Robert Dow and Alex Garovi on April 28th 2009 | Permalink
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A damn powerful graphics AIB—ATI introduces the Radeon 4770 Resistance is futile – you will buy a new AIB We test a lot of things here at Mt. Tiburon Testing labs, mostly stuff that has a pixel associated with it, and sometimes things that just amuse or interest us. Last year, we became concerned with the narrow focus in evaluating graphics add-in boards (AIBs) and felt the emphasis on just the highest 3DMark Vantage score or the highest frames per second (FPS) score (using Fraps) in a game was not helping the consumer, or the manufacturers of AIBs understand the total…
What you can do with 55nm and a gig
Posted by Kathleen Maher on April 2nd 2009 | Permalink
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The HD 4890 is a dual-slot solution with two DVI-connectors FIGURE 1: The HD 4890 compared to its competitors.ATI announced two new top-of-the line single GPU AIBs this week: the HD 4890 and the HD 4890 OC. Both AIBs are based on the RV790 GPU. The new GPU is a revamped "shrink" version of the RV770, the GPU that powers the HD 4870. The RV790 is built on a 55nm process and it has 959 million transistors. ATI turned up the core clock to 850 MHz in the standard HD 4890 and 900 MHz in the OC version, which represents a…
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