In the article they say that it will increase folding at home performance and, allow for faster video encoding 
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ATI was originally ahead of the game in the land of GPGPU computing, being the first company to support a GPU Folding@home client long before Nvidia’s CUDA was released, but it’s recently fallen behind in the performance stakes. However, AMD has just announced plans to massively overhaul the GPGPU features of its Radeon HD 3000 and 4000 GPUs with a driver update in December.
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