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Radeon HD 4890 makes another appearance

AMD RV790-based upcoming Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards continues to make its appearance on the Internet and displays in one form or another before the Sunnyvale, California-based graphics maker had the option not officially disclosed. According to the latest information, the company's upcoming 55nm-based GPU single graphics card can provide their users with an impressive level of performance, which is likely to rise as a direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 graphics card today.

The guys over at ocheaven managed to score some screenshots of 3DMark 06 and 3DMark Vantage results of the new Radeon card. As you can see on the pictures below, RV790 GPU is good for an impressive sum of 16,096 and P10996 in 3DMark 06 and 3DMark Vantage, respectively. Unfortunately, we do not know what drivers are used for the new card, but they could get high scores with better drivers.

Apart from the first revealed 3DMark score, the new card with a core temperature speed of 850MHz and a memory clock of 3800MHz. The card should come with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and should be equipped with a 55nm GPU and 965 one million transistors. It is designed to give AMD a better market share of enthusiasts and high performance segment where the company has no competitor to the new released GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 cards from NVIDIA.

Unfortunately we have no information yet on a release date, but according to previous reports, AMD new single-GPU model should make its debut at times in early April. With the new paper, there were voices on the Advanced Micro Devices plans of a new dual-GPU model based on the new RV790 GPU. This can be called Radeon HD 4890 X2 and NVIDIA to compete with GTX 295.

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