KUALA LUMPUR: Chipmaker AMD said it has achieved two world firsts in visual computing - the launch of the first TeraFlops graphics chip, its Radeon HD 4850, and the first graphics card featuring ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the Radeon HD 4870.

"The 4800 series represents a 2x performance jump over the HD 3800 GPU (graphics processor unit), which is the biggest generational increase since the game-changing launch of the Radeon 9700 in 2002," said Rick Bergman, senior vice-president and general manager of AMD's graphics products group.

Meanwhile, the HD 4870 represents 1.2 TeraFlops of visual computing power, said AMD. It features a stock GPU core clock speed of 750MHz, 512MB of GDDR5 memory rated at 3.6 gigabits/second, and comes in a dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 160-watts.