We reported earlier about the Sapphire 4890 that would run at 1Ghz, making it the first 1Ghz card on the market.  Seems that isn’t just Sapphire’s honor to hold, and AMD has announced a whole line of 4890’s that will be factory overclocked to 1GHz.

What AMD has done is that it has taken an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which normally runs at 850 MHz, and overclocked it to 1 GHz at the factory – air cooled – and voila, you have yourself the world’s first shipping 1 GHz GPU part.

Cards should be available from several vendors shortly, including Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gecube, Gigabyte, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), ITC, Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology and XFX.

via AMD/ATI Beats Nvidia to the 1 GHz GPU Milestone – Tom’s Hardware.

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