Friday, January 25th 2008
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 CrossFire Tested
The title says it all. Sounds monstrously, but in reality benchmark results are not so promising. Maybe this is due to the fact that there aren't any official ATI X2 drivers at all, but time will show. Test system: INTEL Core 2 Duo QX9650, MSI X48 Platinum, Samsung M378BZ873CZ0-CF8 2x1024MB DDR3, Seagate Barracuda 10 SATAII 750GB (ST3750330AS/P,7,200rpm), Windows Vista. Read the full story here.
Source:
Tom's Hardware CN
40 Comments on ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 CrossFire Tested
But it doesn't matter, my 8800GT spanks them both.
There is only a picture at the very end that shows the cards in a Crossfire config.
All the CCC shots and GPU-z say no Crossfire.
What gives?:confused:
nvm, I plugged the link into Google Translate and (as stated earlier in the thread) the drivers offered no increase with the addition of a second card.
Somethings odd about that review, IMO. We don't even have official drivers for the 3870x2, and no one was even sure if the card would support 2 card Crossfire, and all of a sudden a review pops up . . . :wtf:
as for the X2... it is OK... but the problem with it is ... in a best-case scenario, it absolutely mashes an Ultra or two. In the worst case, however, its slightly slower than an 8800GT. Ultimately, in a game like Crysis (which is coded like dogs&*t) any of the 8800 series will come on top, because they always perform 112 or 128 or 96 shader operations per clock (@ 1500MHz), where as a HD 3870 can do 64 - 320 per clock(@ core), buuuuut mostly around 64 since VliW is not supported by dogsh*&y games.
My single HD3850 @ 1280x1024 in Crysis GPU bench does 28 fps 1280x1024 very high, no AA/AF
the 3870x2 say... that the card will work on pci-x x16, and the chip from the card will make crossfire for that two gpu from the pcb. Also the chip dont need a crossfire mainboard in order to activate the crossfire mode.
soo the chip is ...between the pci-x slot and the two 3870
I belive that the next step will be... a dual gpu on die (like a X2 cpu or core duo)
you are more fast that me... or my internet connection is low :D