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ATi and nVidia showcased their latest graphics card series and is expected to hit the market in the coming months. Here’s the highlights.

ATi Radeon 4870 X2

HIGHLIGHTS

Dual TeraScale graphics engines work in tandem to deliver blazing frame rates, putting the power of graphics ‘supercomputing’ in the hands of extreme gamers.

Unparalleled anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering delivers striking graphics with extraordinary realism so you can max out the settings of the most demanding next-generation games.Regardless of platform, these graphics cards delivers the power needed to blaze through games while dynamically conserving energy at idle or when demand is low.

Watch the latest Blu-ray and HD movies play with incredible fidelity and have the freedom to edit videos and convert video formats at lightning-fast speeds.

KEY FEATURES

2 GB of GDDR5 memory
2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power
DirectX® 10.1
1600 stream processing units
2 x 256-bit memory interface
24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
Dual mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
PCI Express® 2.0 support
Dynamic geometry acceleration
Game physics processing capability
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology1

* Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video
* Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
* DVD Upscaling
* Dynamic Contrast
* Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
* Integrated DisplayPort2

Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology (www.ati.com)

nVidia GTX 280

HIGHLIGHTS

With more gaming horsepower than ever before and 1GB of memory, the GeForce GTX 280 GPU’s 240 processing cores make games such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Bionic Commando® feel like the real thing. Its powerful NVIDIA PhysX™ technology creates rich, immersive physical effects with stunningly accurate realism. Experience absolute immersion and a 50% pure performance boost than prior generation GPUs with the GeForce GTX 280 GPU.

KEY FEATURES

1 GB of GDDR3 memory
512-bit Memory Interface Width
240 core processors
141.7 GB/sec memory bandwidth
1296 MHz processor clock
602 MHz graphics clock
PCI Express® 2.0 support (www.nvidia.com)

Obviously nvidia lacks the DDR5 memory and is less by 1GB of RAM. You could look forward to seeing DDR5 on nvidia in the coming chip sets. Here’s a performance chart comparing both graphics cards and if you’d getting one now, you’d know which one to get!

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