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Looks like all the Cinema 2.0 fuss that AMD has been blustering about with its new RV770-based GPUs is fully warranted. The benchmarks are in and AMD's new $549 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 -- what AMD calls the "world's fastest graphics card" -- is an out and out screamer, besting the best cooked up over at NVIDIA thanks to that RV770 GPU pair nuzzled up next to 2GB of GDDR5 memory. As noted by PC Perspective, the new champ, "is able to run away from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280...
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Alienware’s Area-51 ALX systems change as fast as the component manufacturers can release new graphics cards. The Area-51 ALX (Radeon HD 4870 X2) ($9,507 direct) is the latest insane gaming PC from this high-end system builder. It looks like its predecessor, but it has a new heart: dual ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards. These cards are fresh off the AMD/ATI production floor, and they are screaming (at least on World in Conflict).
Based on it’s exterior appearance, with no doubt the...
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Now this looks like it could be something special, welcome to the stunning GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, the question is “Is this the card that has put AMD/ATI back on the graphics card map?
The GIGABYTE HD 4850, like every other reference design HD 4850 carries with it good performance and an excellent price to performance ratio. We can see against the mid-range 9600 GT at the lower resolution there isn’t much difference. As we increase the load on the card by upping the...
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AMD's got a new performance-per-dollar platform for running Phenom processors without breaking the bank. The 790GX is being positioned right below AMD's top of the line 790FX, with a typical motherboard built around the technology costing around $355. Primary advantages of the chipset include Advanced Clock Calibration, which allows Phenom speeds of 3.2GHz and up, and ATI Radeon HD 3300 integrated graphics -- though of course you can ramp up to discreet graphics...
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Recommended: Click here to run a free scan for PC errors . Posted on Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 21:15:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck Recently ATI refreshed their line up of video cards, and they were nice enough ...
- PC Perspective Podcast 03 (pcper.com)
- PC Perspective Podcast 10 (pcper.com)
Remember how we all swooned over Diamond's ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT in June of last year? At the time, that was pretty much your only shot at seeing 1GB of memory on a single graphics card.
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- ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB (tuxmachines.org)
- ATI Radeon HD 4870 (techtree.com)
