Friday, November 7, 2008

AMD launches new HD 4830 graphic card, priced at $150

In a unique move to acquire more customers and profits, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched a PC-gaming graphics card on Thursday dubbed as the ATI Radeon HD 4830 which has been priced less than $150.

The latest offering in the AMD's 4800 series cards supports high-definition content and Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 graphics technology in Windows Vista.

The launch of this card points to the fact that AMD has adopted a strategy to provide graphic cards at reasonable prices but at the same time full of functionality, that would appeal all the customers. The newly launched AMD card will help the company to increase its market share.

AMD's ATI CrossFireX technology, which let the gamers combine as many as four cards on one PC to enhance game performance, is supported by the HD 4830. This new card also fully supports mulitchannel audio called ‘surround sound.’

The motherboards from ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gecube, Gigabyte, Hightech Information Systems, Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology and VisionTek, all support the latest HD 4830.

HD 4830 has exactly the same 512 MB of GDDR3 memory as that of HD 4850. However, the new card has slower clock speed and fewer stream processors.

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