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[Phoronix] AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux Review
[Phoronix] AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux Review
With the launch of the Radeon HD 4800 series in June of last year, AMD made an evolutionary leap in their Linux support . For the first time, when introducing a brand new graphics processor (the RV770 ) it was greeted by same-day Linux support, compared to the past where Linux users had to wait ...
ATI Radeon HD 4890: The RV790 Unveiled
ATI Radeon HD 4890: The RV790 Unveiled
hothardware.com — As anyone remotely in tune with the tech sector can attest, the rivalry in the PC graphics... card market between AMD / ATI and NVIDIA is as intense as ever. It used to be that one of the two companies would release a new product, only to have the other ... (more) ATI Radeon HD 4890: The RV790 Unveiled
AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 Review
AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 Review
pcper.com — AMD and NVIDIA again have new graphics cards for us to throw into the GPU testing beast... on our bench and see what comes of it. The new RV790-based HD 4890 card takes on the cut-in-half GTX 295 known as the GeForce GTX 275 in a battle for your hard ... (more) AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Versus ATI Radeon HD 4890
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Versus ATI Radeon HD 4890
legitreviews.com — AMD and NVIDIA usually do not launch graphics cards on the same day, but today is a... new day and that is exactly what has happened. AMD is announcing the Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which is powered RV790 GPU and arch rival NVIDIA is releasing ... (more) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Versus ATI Radeon HD 4890
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AMD Officially Launches ATI Radeon HD 4890
TweakTown's News RSS Feed — ... immediately for $249 MSRP (USD), and priced at select etailers as low as $229 (USD) after mail-in rebate. Reviews of the ATI Radeon HD 4890 have become available all over the web today. Ours is already available and can be found here , with the rest located via the below links :- - Hardware Canucks - Techpowerup ( Sapphire ) - Techpowerup ( PowerColor ) - Techpowerup ( In Crossfire ) - Hot Hardware - PC Perspective - Phoronix - XBit Labs - Benchmark Reviews - Neoseeker - Overclockers ...

Tech Roundup - April 2, 2009
Techgage News — ... AMD Radeon HD 4890 CrossFire - techPowerUp! AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux - Phoronix AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 - PC Perspective ATI Radeon HD 4890: The RV790 Unveiled - HotHardware Gigabyte Radeon HD 4890 1GB - TweakTown NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB - Hardware Canucks NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Unleashed - HotHardware PowerColor HD 4890 1GB - Overclockers Club PowerColor HD 4890 1GB - techPowerUp Sapphire and ...

Thursday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News — ... HD 4890 & GeForce GTX 275 reviews Hexus.net pits Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 XT & XFX Radeon HD 4890 OC vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 FiringSquad's spring 2009 GPU shootout : Radeon 4890 vs. GeForce GTX 275 PC Perspective reviews AMD Radeon HD 4890 and GeForce GTX 275 AMDZone , Guru3D , HotHardware , and X-bit labs review AMD Radeon HD 4890 techPowerUp! tests AMD Radeon HD 4890 CrossFire Phoronix reviews AMD Radeon HD 4890 on Linux Hartware (in German) and [H] Enthusiast review Asus EAH4890 ...

AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux
DarkVision Hardware Articles and Review from around the web — ... driver the very same month. In the months that followed, they then introduced CrossFire support, OverDrive, and other features to put their Linux Catalyst suite closer to their Windows driver. This morning AMD is announcing a high-end refresh of the RV770 GPU that will be known as the RV790 and is found in the Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. Is AMD continuing to play ball with Linux? We will tell you this morning as we look closely at the ASUS Radeon HD 4890 on Ubuntu Linux. Link: Phoronix

The Day After April Fools' Day
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TechSpot — ... WallStreetJournal 10 skills developers will need in the next five years @ TechRepublic Drawing Inspiration From Creative Logos @ SmashingMag See more articles and reviews . Five years ago in TechSpot: Sun settles with MS, gets $1.95 billion Storage Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB Notebook Hard Drive @ Legit Reviews Video Sapphire HD 4890 1GB @ Hardware Canucks PowerColor HD4890 1GB @ InsideHW AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux @ Phoronix Misc. Windows 7: 64 bit vs 32 bit? @ Windows 7 Forums Futurelooks Attends the ...

Open-Source ATI Driver Picks Up A Few Changes
Phoronix — ... improvements. Additionally, there is mode-setting support for the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card that was released late last month usng the ATI RV790 GPU. The bug fixes vary throughout and include a Mac Mini connector fix, some DCE 3.2 fixes, an X-Video sync fix when in multi-head mode, R600/700-specific work, an AtomBIOS code clean-up, and a few driver improvements. The release announcement with source download links and the change-log can be found on the ...

AMD Catalyst 9.4 Finally Brings X Server 1.6 Support
Phoronix — ... modes on DFP displays. There are also a few segmentation fault fixes. There are also a few more enhancements to the AMD Catalyst Control Center. The OpenGL Composite support was introduced with Catalyst 9.3, but there are already a few fixes and improvements to that support commonly referred to as OpenGL redirected direct rendering within Catalyst 9.4 for Linux. Composite enhancements will continue into the next few releases. The Catalyst 9.4 driver also has official support for the ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, but that RV790 support will too be improved and stabilized ...

PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks
Phoronix — ... motherboard, 2GB of OCZ DDR3-1333MHz memory, a 160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M hard drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. With PC-BSD 7.1 we were using the x64 DVD with KDE 4.2.2, the FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 kernel, X Server 1.5.3, and GCC 4.2.1. With Kubuntu 9.04 we were using the x86_64 2009-04-10 daily spin with the Linux 2.6.28 kernel, KDE 4.2.2, X Server 1.6.0, and GCC 4.3.3. As we are not focusing on graphics tests in this performance comparison, both operating systems were left using the VESA driver. Both operating systems were left with their stock ...

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ATI Radeon HD 4890 supports burst memory readsDV Hardware
A PDF about the instruction set architecture of the ATI R700 series GPUs reveals the upcoming Radeon HD 4890 (RV790) will have at least one architectural difference with the Radeon HD 4870 (RV770): Burst memory reads are not supported by the RV770; however, the 710, 730, 740, and 790 do ...
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Last Thursday, ATI released a 392-page PDF (v1.0 dated March 2009) outlining the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) native to the R700 family, and display a difference between the Radeon HD 4870 and the Radeon HD 4890.