AMD is fighting hard to gain some momentum in the CPU and GPU market after five consecutive quarterly losses. The way to gain traction in the marketplace with gamers and enthusiasts is to offer products that perform better than or as well as the competition at lower prices.

AMD has announced this week that it is offering the first factory GPU to hit 1GHz. The GPU is included on the Radeon HD 4890 and is overclocked right from the factory using stock air-cooling. The GPU is paired with 1GB of GDDR5 RAM and delivers 1.6 TeraFLOPS of processing power.

AMD says that number is 50% higher than what a single NVIDIA GPU can offer. The GPU will also support DirectX 10.1 games and advanced physics processing. One of the coolest things about the 1GHz factory GPU clock speed is that according to XFX, there is more overclocking headroom to be had. That means cards running even higher than 1GHz will be available in retail locations.

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