ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics processor launched

BENGALURU, INDIA: AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. The newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series boasts of a 1.36 TeraFLOPs of computer power, GDDR5 memory, and engine clock speeds capable of nearly 1GHz.

“The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card represents the AMD sweet spot strategy reloaded,” said Rick Bergman, Senior VP and GM, 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,” he added.

The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card supports 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 STALKER: ClearSky. When compared to DirectX 10 game play, DirectX 10.1 games have proven to deliver higher game performance and an improved visual experience.

“The new ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card could very well be the must-have gaming product of this spring,” said Adrian Thomson, VP—Marketing, Sapphire. “With breakthrough levels of game performance, cutting-edge feature support like DirectX 10.1, and high degree of performance tuning flexibility, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 is one of the best performers in its class,” added Thomson.