I’m just going to stop and say……wow!  Must….have…

“AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics card, driven by the world’s most powerful graphics processor1. The newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series boasts a whopping 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, superior GDDR5 memory, and super-high engine clock speeds capable of nearly 1GHz. The advanced design of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 delivers the best game experience in its class, including the latest ground-breaking DirectX® 10.1 titles. In addition, with the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4890, AMD continues to enhance its “Dragon” desktop platform technology, designed to provide exceptional value to OEMs, channel partners, and do-it-yourself (DIY) consumers.

“The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card represents the AMD sweet spot strategy reloaded,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Products Group, AMD. “With last year’s launch of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 products, we gave gamers great performance and an incredible value proposition. Today, we’re doing it again. ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards are incredible performers, priced to sell in all major markets worldwide.”

The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card continues AMD’s proud tradition of technology leadership with support for the latest DirectX 10.1 games, including Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.™, Electronic Art’s 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. “

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Comments
on Apr 03, 2009

I meant to post this a couple days ago...........

TechPowerUp and HIS have a contest to "Design Your Own HIS 4890" It's a chance for some of the great graphic designers around here to design body graphics for the HIS card. HIS will provide templates.

See this LINK for more nformation.

on Apr 03, 2009

What about Nvidia graphics cards? Their GTX 295 card is vastly strong. Thing about this card though is that it's incredible, but ultimately a waste. It's like a super fast car, but is only allowed to use a fraction of its speed. That situation is the same without that card. It'll last you for quite some time, but you won't see the most out of it yet and it's expensive.

 

AMD gives you the best gaming experience withen reason. Giving you that car to reach it's max speed while within the allowed limit.

on Apr 03, 2009

ATi 4890

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4890,2262.html

 

Nvidia 275

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-275,2266.html

 

TLDR: Wait two weeks to buy a card.