Yesterday AMD company declared about the release of video chip RV770, capable of executing 1 trln operations per second (1 teraflops). Accordingly, AMD finally presented the video card radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 .AMD representatives did not miss the possibility to state that new video card series radeon HD 48xx ensure the best specific productivity per watt. According to AMD estimations , performance increase in comparison with graphical solutions series radeon HD 38xx reaches 100%.
Simultaneously AMD demonstrated the possibility of new video chips in the conversion of video files ( real time ). Cyerlink powerDirector 7 Ultra support video coding acceleration using video chips. For example, the video card radeon HD 4850 with 512mb GDDR3 memory converts four video clips with 1080i resolution (HD MPEG-2) in WMV (MPEG-4) in real time.