AMD’s newfangled ATI Radeon E4690 may not be the next Crysis killer, but it should do just fine in next-gen arcade and slot machines. All kidding aside (sort of…), this new embedded graphics set is said to triple the performance of AMD’s prior offerings in the field, bringing with it 512MB of GDDR3 RAM, DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.0 support and hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 high-definition video. The 35mm chip also differentiates itself by integrating directly onto motherboards and taking on many of the tasks that are currently assigned to the CPU, but alas, it doesn’t sound as if we’ll be seeing this in any nettops / netbooks anytime soon ever.
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AMD’s ATI Radeon E4690 brings HD, DirectX 10.1 support to embedded GPU arena originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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