New ATI Cards - HD4890!

ATI launched their latest high-end card, the HD 4890. For $265 you get 1GB of GDDR5 video memory, and a single GPU running at 900MHz (overclocked from 850MHz). That's much faster than the previous ATI record holder, the HD 4870X2 (overclocked from 750MHz to 800MHz). Of course, the 4870X2 still costs quite a bit more ($450-ish) since you get two GPUs on the same card, but since the benefits of the 4870X2 rely on games having been optimized for Crossfire support (and not all of them have been) you might want to seriously consider the HD 4890 if you're interested in the very highest performance you can get.

You can also compare the new card to the $200 HD 4870 with 1GB of memory, which runs at a significantly slower 780MHz, which we would recommend for gaming at resolutions of 1680x1050 or lower.

On a side note, nVidia announced its latest video card today too (the GTX 275) but as it won't be available until the middle of April, we'll save that for later. The HD 4890 is available as an option on our Ion and Fury models immediately.