AMD Ships 790GX New Gaming Chip
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced the availability of silicon targeted at the "performance" gaming community.
The new Advanced Clock Calibration technology allows 790GX chipset to overclock Phenom CPU systems at clock speeds higher than 3.0 GHz by "significant tuning enhancements" on the new SB750 southbridge for better performance.
The 790GX allows gamers to safely run Phenom-processor-based systems at speeds of more than 3.0GHz using a technology AMD calls "Advanced Clock Calibration." A processor rated at 2.5GHz, for example, can be "overclocked" to run at 3.2GHz to get better performance in games.
The 790GX chip has built-in ATI Radeon HD 3300 GPU chip which offers scalable high-definition gaming performance on the latest DirectX10 games. The chip's performance can boosted further when paired with one or two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics cards to scale up to a higher performance configuration. In 790GX the ATI Avivo HD offers full 1080p HD on performance config systems with support for the latest codecs like H.264 and MPEG-2 for better HD visuals. This chip uses the AMD Unified Video Decoder, which redirects HD playback to the GPU, rather than the CPU, and delivers a better visual experience without frames drops or lags.
ATI Avivo HD is the advanced image and video processing and display technology found in ATI Radeon graphics that enables:
- brilliant colors, sharp images and smooth playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD content
- performance that rivals high end HD DVD and Blu-ray players on difficult 1080i content
- built-in HDMI and DVI with HDCP
