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14
Sep
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AMD FX octa-​core sets record overclocking by attaining 8.429 GHz

AMD announced it has achieved the Guin­ness World Record for the “High­est Fre­quency of a Com­puter Proces­sor,” by over­clock­ing the upcom­ing 8-​core AMD FX desk­top proces­sor. Read moreRead more

19
Jan
AMD

AMD Announced World’s First and only APU for Embedded Systems

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced avail­abil­ity of the new AMD Embed­ded G-​Series proces­sor based on AMD Fusion tech­nol­ogy, the world’s first and only Accel­er­ated Pro­cess­ing Unit (APU) for embed­ded sys­tems. The new G-​Series proces­sor is the new low-​power, x86 CPU based on the “Bob­cat” core with DirectX® 11-​capable GPU and par­al­lel pro­cess­ing engine on a sin­gle piece of sil­i­con. Read moreRead more

28
Nov

World’s Fastest Graphics Card, Dual-​GPU Radeon HD 5970 Launched

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AMD has launched the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graph­ics card, the fastest card graphic card ever seen​.It uses two 5800 series chipsets on the same card to pro­vide the best per­for­mance possible.

The 2GB dual-​GPU card is the first to sup­port Microsoft DirectX 11 and also sup­ports up to three dis­plays at once for a 7680×1600 max­i­mum res­o­lu­tion with high over clock­ing poten­tial. Read moreRead more

6
Jun

AMD announces two 45nm desktop CPUs

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AMD has announced two new 45nm dual-​core desk­top CPUs, the Athlon X2 250 and Phe­nom II X2 550 Black Edition.This is the high­light AMD has brought to Com­pu­tex 2009.The Athlon X2 250 CPU fea­tures 3GHz clock rate with 65W power and L2 cache of 2MB.

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The Phe­nom II X2 550 Black Edi­tion fea­tures fre­quen­cies of 3.1GHz, 1MB L2 cache and 6MB L3 cache.The Black Edi­tion CPU is unlocked for overclocking.

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AMD is also plan­ning to launch a DirectX 11 com­pat­i­ble GPU series for Win­dows 7 shortly.

14
May

AMD Delivers the World’s First 1 GHz GPU With Radeon HD 4890 Air Cooled

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“Nine years after launch­ing the world’s first 1 GHz CPU, AMD is again first to break the giga­hertz bar­rier with the fac­tory over­clocked, air-​cooled ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU”

AMD announced the world’s first 1GHz graph­ics proces­sor (with­out third-​party /​over­clock­ing) with the ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU with air cool­ing. When HD 4890 is released it is the 850MHz clock ver­sion. Power color released 950MHz core clock speed ver­sion. What ever we are see­ing the 1GHz ver­sions are over­clocked veri­ons of Stan­dard 850MHz core clock speed.

AMD Radeon 4890

The ATI Radeon HD 4890, boasts a whop­ping 1.36 Ter­aFLOPs of com­pute power, supe­rior GDDR5 mem­ory. The ATI Radeon HD 4890 comes with DirectX 10.1 support.

As per Press Release

  • With this prod­uct, AMD achieves a notable engi­neer­ing mile­stone as the first graph­ics com­pany to break the 1 GHz barrier.
  • The new ATI Radeon HD 4890 uti­lizes advanced GDDR5 mem­ory and a 1 GHz clock speed to deliver 1.6 Ter­aFLOPs of com­pute power, 50 per­cent more than that of the com­pe­ti­tion best single-​GPU solution2. With this level of raw com­pute power, the1 GHz ATI Radeon HD 4890 is set to deliver new lev­els of gen­eral pur­pose GPU-​accelerated per­for­mance in ATI Stream appli­ca­tions such as video transcod­ing and post processing.
  • This new ver­sion of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 marks the lat­est addi­tion to the award-​winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series deliv­ered by AMD tech­nol­ogy part­ners Sap­phire, XFX, Asus and TUL.
  • The advanced design of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 deliv­ers an amaz­ing gam­ing expe­ri­ence in the lat­est games, includ­ing ground-​breaking DirectX 10.1 titles such as Ubisoft Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., Elec­tronic Arts Bat­tle­Forge and SEGA’s Storm­rise released last month, as well as GSC Gameworld’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky. When com­pared to DirectX 10 game play, DirectX 10.1 games have proven to deliver higher game per­for­mance and an improved visual expe­ri­ence. In addi­tion, these cards fea­ture sup­port for open stan­dards like OpenGL3 with DirectX 10-​like hard­ware exten­sions, and the recently rat­i­fied OpenCL specification.
  • The ATI Radeon HD 4890 sup­ports advanced game physics. At the 2009 Game Devel­op­ers Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cisco, Havok and AMD demon­strated the first imple­men­ta­tion of OpenCL run­ning on AMD graph­ics proces­sors. In the demon­stra­tion, Havoks physics tech­nol­ogy deliv­ered com­plex and real­is­tic sim­u­la­tions of real-​world mate­ri­als like cloth, demon­strat­ing the poten­tial for increased real­ism in forth­com­ing games.
  • To date, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 card has won numer­ous awards, includ­ing the pres­ti­gious Edi­tor Choice Gold Award from HardOCP, the HotHard­ware Rec­om­mended Award and the Edi­tor Choice Award from Tweak­town, among oth­ers. The acco­lades speak to the excite­ment around the prod­uct and to the con­tin­ued strength of the dis­crete graph­ics mar­ket over­all, some­thing ana­lyst Dr. Jon Ped­die of Jon Ped­die Research pre­dicts will con­tinue to play a strong role in the com­put­ing industry.
  • As a result of the world­wide acco­lades from media, devel­op­ers, enthu­si­asts and fans, AMD released an inside look at how the card was made and what it means for gamers. The card marks a new aspect to the AMD Dragon desk­top plat­form tech­nol­ogy, pro­vid­ing an even more pow­er­ful sin­gle GPU desk­top graph­ics option to OEMs, chan­nel part­ners, and do-​it-​yourself (DIY) consumers.

Read the Press Release : AMD Deliv­ers the World’s First 1 GHz Graph­ics Processor