AMD ATI 4800 Series Video Cards in iMac and Mac Pro Computers

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AMD has announced that its line of HD 4800 video cards is being used inside of some of Apple's iMac and Mac Pro computers. Apple has been using NVIDIA video cards and GPUs in many of its systems, but they GPUs have been failing in many of its computers.

AMD says that its GPUs complement Snow Leopard's fully OpenCL Verison 1.0 implementation. The specification is a key enabler of ATI Stream technology that allows developers to balance application workloads across the GPU and the CPU. Read more

Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NVIDIA Unveils Quadro FX 4800 Graphics Card for Mac Pro

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Today NVIDIA announced the availability of their ultra high-end Quadro FX 4800 graphics card for Mac Pro users.

The card NVIDIA describes as “market’s most advanced professional graphics card” features similar specs as the recently-released PC version, including:

A “massive” 1.5GB frame buffer
Memory bandwidth up to 76.8 GB/sec
Boot camp support
Two dual-link DVI connectors equipped with 3 pin min-din connector for added “3D stereoscopic imaging” according to the release

NVIDIA GM of Professional Solutions, Jeff Brown, said in a statement, “Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform. The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”

Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:00 CDT | by James Douglas

I4U weekly Top 10: ATI 4800, akoya mini, Bill Gates

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ATI launched this week the 4800 series cards to battle the NVIDIA GTX 200 series cards introduced last week.
Bill Gates has his last day today at Microsoft. See him and his founding employees in 1978 and today in these photos.
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Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series is World's first TeraFLOPS GPU

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Today AMD officially announced the new HD 4800 series GPUs. The new HD 4850 and HD 4870 were already revealed this week, when Diamond apparently unveiled their 4800 series card too early.

AMD says the ATI Radeon HD 4850 is the first TeraFLOPS graphics card available. Additionally the HD 4870 based cards feature GDDR5 memory. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI Radeon HD 4800 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200

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June will apparently see another showdown of new graphics cards from NVIDIA and ATI.

AMD's ATI will push out the ATI Radeon 4800 series apparently featuring some hardware physics engine.
The ATI Radeon will come as 4850, 4870, and 4870 X2. The 4870 slated for end of June actually sports DDR5 memory. The 4870 is supposed to have the same performance as a dual-GPU 3870 X2. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:20:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Compact Nikon Coolpix 4800 with 8.3x Zoom

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Camborg reports about the new Nikon Coolpix 4800.

The new Nikon Coolpix 4800 is a fast 4.0 megapixel digital camera with a compact 8.3x optical Zoom-Nikkor ED glass lens that provides its user with a zoom range of 36-300mm (35mm equivalent).
The Nikon Coolpix 4800 weighs in at only 9oz and sports a 1.8-inch LCD monitor.
Read the full story on Camborg.

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