AMD has introduced the new ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card based on the new 55nm RV770 chip, providing performance up to 1 teraflop (1 trillion floating point operations per second). The novelty contains 512 MB of GDDR5 video memory with a bandwidth of 3.6 Gbit / s and a 256-bit interface. The RV770 processor, under which AMD developed the entire Cinema 2.0 concept, runs at 750 MHz. According to AMD, the performance of ATI Radeon HD 4870 is twice as high compared to the previous generation cards.
The claimed value of the new ATI Radeon HD 4870 is $ 299.