ATI Radeon HD 4870 Launch & Reviews

Today is the launch of the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870. The ATI Radeon HD 4870, available immediately with a suggested retail price of USD$299, represents an unprecedented 1.2 teraFLOPS of visual compute power. It features a stock GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR5 memory rated at 3.6 gigabits/second, and comes in a dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 160 watts.A dedicated website for ATI...

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ATI Radeon HD 4850

ATI managed a significant comeback late last year with the 3000 Radeon series of cards especially the 3870X2, 3870, and 3850. Performance increased dramatically able to compete with nVidia, price, and power consumption. But Nvidia has come back first with the 9800 GTX then the incredibly expensive GTX 280.And what does AMD have to bounce right back but the brand new Radeon HD 4850 launching today and in a few weeks the Radeon HD 4870 which should topple the GeForce 9800 GTX.The Radeon HD 4850 is...

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Zai Zai does not want celebrate his birthday

Today, June 9 is Zai Zai's birthday. Long time ago in official on-line announcement he said: “Do not give the gift to me, please donate money for Sichuan disaster victims.” His fellow fans are really obedient, and they succeeded mustering fund 200,000 Hong Kong Dollars (to be approximately equal to 780,000 Yuan), but Zai Zai contribute 100 ten thousand dollars to join together to accomplish a great task.We can see so many wishes from his fans:Forum IndoSiarAsianFanatics ForumTake a look at a cute...

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Computex Taiwan: Biostar showcases AMD 790GX

Biostar showcases motherboards based on unannounced AMD 790GX chipset. It had two variants on display, with both supporting performance-enhancing SidePort memory modules, located just below the northbridge.The TA790GX A2+, pictured above, carries the 790GX and SB750 combination. The new southbridge was supposed to debut with the 780G, and we may well see other manufacturers roll it in quietly.SB750 brings with it improved RAID support, and, according to the product specialist, a method of better...

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South Korea fines Intel $25 million

The South Korea Fair Trade Commission has brought the hammer down on Intel, fining the company 26 billion won ($25.4 million) for alleged anti-competitive behavior. Intel faced the same charge there as in several other nations and the European Union: bribing companies to keep AMD processors out of their product lines.According to the Korean regulators, Intel provided rebates to Samsung and other South Korean computer makers in exchange for not using AMD processors. Along with the hefty fine, the Fair Trade Commission is ordering Intel to stop using rebates pushing PC makers to shun AMD's products.Still...

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Computex Taiwan: ATI XGP Announced

ATI made another big announcement at Computex, a new external video card platform for notebook computers called the ATI XGP (External Graphics Platform). The ATI XGP is an external PCI Express 2.0 graphics device.ATI says that the device is externally powered and externally cooled so it won’t place demands on the notebook. Bandwidth in both directions is reported to be 4 Gbytes/s; ATI says that other external graphics solutions were limited in bandwidth.The XGP platform is optimized to work with...

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Computex Taiwan: Puma prepares to pounce

AMD has its sights set on a big cat, Puma, the firm's new platform for mainstream laptop PCs, which it officially announced today. Puma will do battle against Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 platform later this year. For the most part, Puma represents the "mobilization" of AMD's current desktop PC technologies, with a necessarily increased focus on dynamic power and performance scaling.The various components of the Puma platform will be largely familiar to those who know AMD's desktop products, but...

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Computex Taiwan: Opening Day

An early look around Computex 2008, as everyone sets up their stands, reveals Taipei’s finest booth babes practicing for opening day.Gigabyte lets slip AMD's next-gen graphics cards, The Radeon HD 4000 series. It said to provide 512MB of GDDR3 memory, not the GDDR5 that AMD had promised. Though, this 4850 could be only mid-range derivatives.MSI have a couple of interesting offerings, namely its GX630, based on AMD’s Puma platform. The GX630 uses an AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core mobile processor...

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