During the next two months, AMD will introduce a series of ATI Radeon GPUs (graphics processing units) that will cost between $200 and $300, offer up to 1 teraflop—1 trillion calculations per second—of performance and work at between 110 and 150 watts.

While AMD is looking to make an immediate impact in the gaming and PC enthusiast markets with these new graphics processors, the company also has an eye on mainstream computing as well as HPC (high-performance computing). The updated Radeon road map also includes the company's new FireStream 9250, which is designed for HPC and offers a bump in performance from the previous 500 gigaflops to 1 teraflop.

Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Graphics division, said the company wanted to get away from increasing the die size of its graphics processors and increasing the clock speed, which ultimately did not benefit users. 

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