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ATI Radeon HD 4890 review

AMD's new 3D chip is an overclocking beast

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-04-02April 2nd 2009

Price at launch £200.00
MPN HD489XZSQC
Features GDDR5 Memory / 16 ROPs / 256-bit memory bus / Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder / ATI PowerPlay™ Technology / ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology / DisplayPort output support / ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
API Support New DirectX 10.1
GPU ATI
Graphics Core Clockspeed 850
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1024
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 0.975
RAMDACs 400
Recommended Power Supply 500
Vertex Shaders 800
Video Output Dual-Link DVI

Product Summary

Radeon HD 4890

ATI Radeon HD 4890

Price at launch

£200.00

For

>

Nice overclocking headroom

>

Awesome value for money

Against

>

ot all that much quicker than a 4870

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