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We have reviewed a number of HD 4890's in the last few months: such as the Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X, and the Powercolor Plus! HD 4890. But when it comes to high-end gaming video cards, here at Neoseeker, we always have room for more.

Today's piece of work features a nice looking custom cooler on it, and an overclock that is pretty serious. Best part of it all is that even though the HD 4890 is currently the fastest GPU on offer from ATI, this video card is not a totally unreasonable amount of money, selling for not much more than $200 bucks.

If you haven't been following hardware developments recently, or you are reading this review at some point in the hazy future when information on the current generation is not prevalent, let's really quickly outline the state of higher-end video cards available right now.

For ATI cards, we have today's top-dog RV790 powering the HD 4890, with 800 shader processors, and a core clock close to the incredible 1GHz mark. Below the HD 4890, we have the HD 4870. This the most popular ATI card out there at the moment -- prices on this part have become very reasonable, and there is a huge variety of options out in this class. Below that we have the HD 4850, which has been somewhat supplanted by the inexpensive (around $100) HD 4770 -- but this 40nm GPU video card has been short supply in most markets.

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