AMD/ATI Beats Nvidia to the 1 GHz GPU Milestone

Nice job, AMD/ATI! Though this begs the question: will we see multi-core GPUs coming out anytime in the near future, or is it just my wild pipedream?

I loved my old Athlon Thunderbird!
Until i fried it...

Nvidia unified shaders clock have been 1.2GHz+ since G80. Nvidia was 1GHz+ almost 2.5 years ago.

stryk55: GPUs already have hundreds of shaders and dozens of texture mappers and render outputs. So they already process lots of different data streams at once. If you meant multiple-GPUs, thats what SLI and CrossFire are already accomplishing.

Could this be an HD4890X2? I don't think AMD would sale a higher end GPU using the same name in a single gpu. Only time they did increase the performance and use the same name was in dual gpu x2 version.

WTF are you smoking? Why would you call a faster part X2?

GPUs are multi-core. They have been for a while now.

And again, history repeats itself..
The last comment from the author of the news is the same though I had when I started reading it..

Back in 2000 when I was living in Canada I saw that "fight".. Remember the P4 bug with 1ghz speeds? lol..

A year to remember.. SlotA/Slot1 processors that resembled nintendo cartridges.. lol.. Great year for AMD..

Radeon 4895? I certainly hope they give it a different name, I'd hate to have to look at the specs in every list on newegg.

Nice. Now I wonder if this could be a 40nm 4890? I think if it is they should rename it to 4895.

I had that misconception once, too. Turns out GPUs actually already have like over 100 cores.

lol the 1st 1ghz processor...800 bucks..amazing..! times change things...i think my cell phone might have a 1ghz processor now lol

Should have made it 1001Mhz. Then you can say you passed the 1Ghz barrier.

my god! this is amazing! they broke the 1ghz barrier! i can't believe it!! what does this mean? sweet FA! or if we are lucky another ghz war in which they abandon efficient and clever design just to see who can get the highest clock (p4 anyone?)

As much as I favor AMD over Nvidia, Nvidia has done this with the unified shaders already

Way to go Tom Brokaw

http://www.overclockersclub.com/re [...] 90_atomic/

nice find, too bad they didn't throw 2gb of mem on to that... they might have gotten some better mem clocks out of it, like their one sapphire 4870 2gb model that can run gta iv without a hitch

"On air", ok sure, what fan speed? I mean we all tries to set the fan at 100% and heard the noise ...

Well progress is progress. Congratulations AMD/ATI!

dude it is multi core it has 800 stream pros or cores just it is sorta like carmen people say it different but not really that was a dumb comparison i spell ting wong.

What did nVidia do with unified shaders?

Ati was the first company to use unified shaders for an entire generation before nVidia. Unified shaders were first developed for the XBOX 360 graphics chip called Xenos, which is a predecessor to Ati's R600 architecture (Radeon HD 2000 series) which is the equivalent of nVidia's Geforce 7 series (which doesn't have unified shaders). nVidia has unified shaders starting with Geforce 8 series.

So what? Nvidia has higher performance per clock which was what AMD used to preach back in the Athlon XP/64 vs. Pentium 4 days. Now AMD is bragging the high clock speed of PII and 48xx GPUs.

The table has finally turned and AMD is on the receiving end.

around of applause for ATI compitition is fierce and the comsumer is the winner

It's not all about clock speed, it's about efficency per clock cycle. Hooray for another marketing ploy. Maybe they can go back to the performance ratings again. "Radeon 4890 1600+" anyone?

thats not the only part to the GPU...

Shaders and Core clocks are seperated with nVidia, while ATIs is linked.

ATI is doing the first core clocked at 1GHz+. nVidias is still around 700MHz.




Actually it was the R500 X1800 that had a unified shader arch with 64 unified shaders. Xenos was developed based off of that arch and then the HD2K series pushed even more shaders (320).

I don't get it...

Pardon my ignorance, but is this something major in the GPU industry? If it is then congrats to ATI. It just seems that the technology behind ATI and Nvidia are different anyways, so i don't understand why you would compare clock speeds. Don't ATI cards have way more shading processors too? Do they get a round of applause for that too? I didn't that ATI having more sp's than Nvidia gave them more performance.

Heck if this is some breakthrough in the industry then i will gladly say ATI has done something awesome. But in the end is this giving them any more of a performance edge against Nvidia? This seems a lot like street racing to me: You can find imports that will rev higher than 8000 rpm. However does this give them more power than a big block v8 revving at 6000 rpm? Maybe, but maybe not.

I'm just trying to find the purpose behind this award, so i will gladly listen to any worthy justification.

It's a symbolic victory. Means nothing in true performance terms.

I would be curious to see the performance difference it makes when OCing from 850MHz to 1GHz. My guess is 5-10%, not that impressive in itself, but that is also the average performance gain of a 4890 over a 4870 or a GTX285 over a GTX280 ...

Wait wait wait... Chris Angelini used to be on Sharky Extreme?? Back in the day Sharky Extreme was the best, better that Toms' in many regards but then they sold out and things went downhill fast as I recall.

The good old days... I got myself an Athlon 1.33 GHz the year after. Had been chugging along on a 400MHz K6-2 that I got in '98 before that. Built them both myself. That was back when dial-up modem weren't the easiest thing to get going due to com port and i/o conflictions. Not that most of you know about com ports.
You also had to set clock speeds by motherboard jumpers back then. With the K6 you had to set multiplier and base clock, I think at the point of the Athlon all you had to set was the base clock. Anywho... can't wait to see the #'s on the new part!