A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need

Vigile writes “With the release of AMD’s latest budget graphics card, the Radeon HD 4770, the GPU giant is bringing a lot of technology to the table. The card sports the world’s first 40nm GPU (beating out CPUs to a new process technology for the first time), GDDR5 memory, and 640 stream processors, all for under 0. What is even more interesting is that as PC gaming has evolved it appears that a graphics card is all you really need to play the latest PC titles — as long as you are comfortable with a resolution of 1920×1200 or below. Since so few PC gamers have screens larger than that, could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?”

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