AMD will expand its Radeon brand to sell RAMs as well. The chip company that also happens to sell GPUs under the same brand has started selling Radeon-branded DDR3 RAMs in Japan. In addition to the claim that these RAMs are optimized for AMD CPUs and APUs, the DDR3 RAM will be launched under three series – Entertainment, Ultra Pro Gaming and Enterprise. The difference between the series is the speed, which is 1333MHz and 1600MHz for Entertainment and Ultra Pro Gaming respectively. AMD is yet to confirm the speed of the Enterprise Series RAMs.

All the RAMs will be available in 2GB density.

AMD Radeon RAMs are available in Japan in limited numbers for a price of around 1,570 yen or USD20.

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AMD today announced a new and cheap graphics card. The Radeon HD 5670 GPU is the first graphics card that boasts DirectX11 support for a $100 price tag. The card claims to give the full Windows 7 experience with its oodles of features like the GDDR5 memory, 400 stream processors, OpenGL 3.2 and ATI Eyefinity multi-display support. Additionally, it also has UVD2 to decode full HD content at ease, CrossFireX, dual-link DVI, HDMI 1.3 and 3D stereoscopic display support.

The card is now available from various manufacturers.

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AMD has launched its first GPU based on 40nm manufacturing process. The energy efficient HD 4770 ATI Radeon card is Windows 7 ready and boasts the same 4000 Series GPU features but at a very convincing price tag. Anticipated at around $99, the card has GDDR5 memory, support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFireX technology, HDMI and DisplayPort ports, Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) for smooth HD video playback and compatible with 7.1 surround sound.

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After being sighted in the wild and getting an extensive review, AMD has officially announced HD 4890 bragging 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, making it the fastest GPU available in the market. The card’s got a GB of GDDR5 memory, 800 stream processing units, DirectX 10.1 support and CrossfireX support.

The card also features HDMI out with 7.1 channel surround sound, picture-in-picture and second generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) for smooth video playback.

It is available for $249 or for $229 at select etailers after a mail-in rebate.

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There’s not much to tell about this one but ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 has been pictured from quite a few angles. The few changes expected in the 4870’s successor is the changes in the PCB to handle extra power for higher clock speeds. The GPU is also expected to be clocked at 850MHz while its 1GB DDR5 memory at 975MHz. We cannot hint about its official announcement but for now, you can ogle a few pictures over here.

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AMD announced the world’s first 40nm based GPUs for notebooks. Based on 40nm fabrication means good graphics power on a smaller die and allows laptop companies to integrate discrete GPUs in a small notebook. The Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon HD 4860 are the first pair offering full 1080p playback, HDMI-out, DirectX 10.1 support, DisplayPort, CrossfireX, PowerXpress and PowerPlay power management tool.

The first 40nm 4800 series GPUs will be featured in Asus’ K series notebooks.

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AMD at CES announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series GPUs for laptops. Bringing all the coolness of the desktop HD 4000 Series, the Mobility variant of HD 4000 will also support DirectX 10.1, HD content playback and CrossFireX technology. Different 4XXX series will further target different categories like HD 4300 for thin and light notebooks, 4500 for better battery life or 4800 for gaming performance.

The first ATI Mobility Radeon GPU powered notebooks have been launched by Asus – ASUS N51Tp and N81Vp with HD 4650 and F81Se with HD 4570 GPU.

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AMD is turning on the heat with its onslaught of graphics cards. First, they announced two pocket friendly cards and now a mid-range high-definition GPU aimed to take on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GT. AMD has made the card pretty identical in features but gives an edge to its offering than 9800GT.

HD 4830 hails from the 4800 series which has a 512MB GDDR3 memory, supports PCI Express 2.0 interface and scores over 9800GT with the support for DirectX 10.1. Though the core clock speed of 4830 is less than 9800GT, it gains on the stream processing unit which goes up to 640. Other things it boasts is the CrossFireX technology that enables a gamer to attach four GPUs to boost gaming performance, HDMI, TV-out and DVI ports. It sells for $130.

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AMD is turning out to be a messiah for cheap gamers. They have rolled out ATI Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350 graphics card which is light on pocket and has a performance comparable to a high-end graphics card. Both the cards are built on the same technology as HD 4800 Series and integrate support for DirectX 10.1 and HD multimedia capabilities like 7.1 channel surround audio via HDMI, 7.1 channel surround audio via DisplayPort, cable-free HDMI and enhanced DVD Upscale.

HD 4550 has a 512MB DDR3 memory and will sell for $55 whereas its smaller sibling HD 4350 has 256MB of DDR2 memory and will retail for $39. Both the cards will be available from this month.

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