ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 1GB GDDR5 Nude Shots

Sunday, June 29th 2008

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 1GB GDDR5 Nude Shots

I spotted some new nude shots of the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card today and decided to share them with you. Little is known about the card's specs at the time, but what's apparent from the pics is the black PCB, the two 55nm-built RV770 GPUs and the PLX PCI-Express 2.0 bridge chip situated between the GPUs. On both sides of the PCB there are 16 Qimonda GDDR5 chips for a total of 1GB video memory. Also one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-E connectors will be needed for proper operation.

Source: ChipHell

posted by malware - 8:12 PM | Related News |

User comments

by erocker (8:15 PM) - Reply

Dirty, dirty pictures!:laugh: Black is soo "in" right now! This will be one hot card, literally and socially.

by ShadowFold (8:17 PM) - Reply

Nice! I like the single 6+2pin + 6pin for power! I was expecting 6+2 x 2.

by WarEagleAU (8:23 PM) - Reply

They have these up on NOQ as well. Saw them today when I was reading the NVIDIA Cheats thread.

by Scrizz (8:26 PM) - Reply

mmm tasty

by btarunr (8:27 PM) - Reply

Thank God, the X2 now comes with the same memory standard as the "X1", unlike HD3870 X2 whose initial releases came with GDDR3.

by frankie827 (8:53 PM) - Reply

this will blow the gtx280 and 9800gx2 out of the water hopefully...

by mandelore (9:16 PM) - Reply

it should best the 280 since it sports a new inter-gpu bus so its scalability of two on pcb gpu's is better than that of two single gpu cards in crossfire. think it was quoted as being 1.8x on the dual gpu design vs 1.5x scalability on 2 crossfired cards... hmm... since the "joining" of the gpu's is done earlier in the pipeline maybe the overclocking ability will be enhanced compared to that of the old style internal crossfire bridge of the 3870x2

by Cold Storm (9:17 PM) - Reply

That looks Pretty dang GOOD! :toast:

by Bytor (9:19 PM) - Reply

MMMMMmmmmm Black PCB is so Sexy!!! Wish they all would go black on the PCB's.

by cool_recep (9:21 PM) - Reply

Engineering masterpiece if you look at the back site of the card.

by Fleekar (9:26 PM) - Reply

Is this card going to be single slot cooling?

by ShadowFold (9:27 PM) - Reply

by: Fleekar
Is this card going to be single slot cooling?

Hell no :roll:

by hv43082 (9:37 PM) - Reply

More importantly, how much?

by zithe (9:41 PM) - Reply

So much for a rated "G" forum.... **Unrealistic scenario suggesting that 4 year olds read and reply on this forum (which sometimes seems true...) following:** "Mommy? What's mastru____?" Come to think of it, I think the forum lost its chance at being anything below PG-13 the day it was born (I win the trophy for lurking!) Edit: Nevermind. I don't think I even OWNED a computer at that point...

by mandelore (9:42 PM) - Reply

just looking at the work gone into it, compare that to how the dual gpu designs of others require 2 pcbs, yet this still packs some serious firepower. The designers deserve a round of applause

by imperialreign (9:46 PM) - Reply

by: malware
I spotted some new nude shots of the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card today and decided to share them with you. Little is known about the card's specs at the time, but what's apparent from the pics is the black PCB, the two 55nm-built RV770 GPUs and the PLX PCI-Express 2.0 bridge chip situated between the GPUs. On both sides of the PCB there are 16 Qimonda GDDR5 chips for a total of 1GB video memory. Also one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-E connectors will be needed for proper operation. Source: ChipHell

black ATI PCB?!! :twitch: Sacrilege!! Blasphemy!! Heretical!! but damn sexy, though! :toast:

by Megasty (10:24 PM) - Reply

by: zithe
So much for a rated "G" forum.... **Unrealistic scenario suggesting that 4 year olds read and reply on this forum (which sometimes seems true...) following:** "Mommy? What's mastru____?" Come to think of it, I think the forum lost its chance at being anything below PG-13 the day it was born (I win the trophy for lurking!) Edit: Nevermind. I don't think I even OWNED a computer at that point...

Forget about it :roll: On a lighter note, I feel like reaching through my LCD & pulling out the card...

by substance90 (10:38 PM) - Reply

by: frankie827
this will blow the gtx280 and 9800gx2 out of the water hopefully...

Maybe it won`t in every single game, but the 4870 X2 sure will kick GX2 and GTX280`s asses in at least half of the titles. For The Witcher and Bioshock I am 100% sure!

by mlupple (10:40 PM) - Reply

ATI for the w!

by TooFast (10:57 PM) - Reply

I hope its clocked much higher than the 4870, like 900 for each core.

by Dr. Spankenstein (11:05 PM) - Reply

BEWARE THE QUIMONDA MEMORY!!!! Beware....:laugh: They can't be the OMLY producers of GDDR5, can they? Imma waitin' on HIS to pump one of these out.:D

by X-TeNDeR (11:11 PM) - Reply

just look at those PWMs! very complex and clever design :respect: This black pcb is really sexy, and by the estimated numbers this beast can output.. oh man :rockout: I heard estimates that price should be 450-550$ if I'm not mistaken.

by WarEagleAU (11:45 PM) - Reply

Still not nearly as bad as the GTX280's price

by calvary1980 (11:47 PM) - Reply

this card is going to suck up alot of power. - Christine

by farlex85 (11:50 PM) - Reply

Seems like it's going to be quite hot too. All the heat problems others have been having w/ one of these gpu's, I can't imagine what two will get to. 1600sp's though and 1gb of gddr5 ram, that just sounds tasty, hopefully it will be.

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