PowerColor Launches GDDR4 HD 3870 X2

[mandelore]

lol... i take it that was a joke? coz unless it was for design, it would be sooo very worthless to the user while costing them more

 

[erocker]

I love the competition between ATi and Nvidia! They just constantly are duking it out! I really want this card. I wonder if the GPU's are going to be the A12 revision?

 

[ShadowFold]

Looks awsome! id grab that if I wasnt getting another HD 3850 soon

 

[mab1376]

how would you compare this to the 9800GX2?

 

[btarunr]

how would you compare this to the 9800GX2?

Ballpark, best guess: Better.

In fact I foresee the GDDR3 variant doing better than the GX2 judging solely by the pre-release 3DMark benches. We don't know what kind of memory PowerColor is using, it's a very vendor-specific model. If they end up using high-clocked (but higher latency) GDDR4 memory (like the 512M GDDR3, 1G GDDR4), the performance could take a hit.

 

[TheLostSwede]

It seems like you can't link to the image, so anyone that wants a full rez image - http://www.powercolor.com/Global/bi...E_HD3800_3870 X2 1GB GDDR4/PSD/image_a_xs.jpg stick that into your browser

 

[mandelore]

you mean u cant like this?

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Hmmm... don't tell me these are the re-hash of the X2's we've been hearing about? If it's just GDDR4 then that's rather disappointing really. I wanted a 512bit memory bus for each GPU. Highly doubt we'll get that if this isn't the re-hash.

 

[btarunr]

Hmmm... don't tell me these are the re-hash of the X2's we've been hearing about? If it's just GDDR4 then that's rather disappointing really. I wanted a 512bit memory bus for each GPU. Highly doubt we'll get that if this isn't the re-hash.

...which would send ATI and not PowerColor back to the drawing boards. Remember, this is a very vendor-specific card, just like how Sapphire came up with a X1950 Pro X2.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Oh I know that man, I was suggesting about the re-hash ATi are meant to be releasing of the 3K series. I know that PowerColor just whacked on GDDR4 instead of the usual 3, I was hoping that it wasn't the rumoured re-hash.

 

[btarunr]

The rumoured re-hash is the A12 revision of the RV670 chips. As far as I know, these might not come with 512 bit memory bus.

The moar you know

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I guess that'll be saved for the 4k series, hopefully...

 

[Ravenas]

Whoever gets their hands on 2 of these puppies has "quad core" cross fire!

Anyway, are these coming out on the 9th, when Cebit ends?

 

[mascaras]

Looks great, but where's the 3 DVI and 1 HDMI?

Edit: Link is down now.

 

[Ravenas]

 

[btarunr]

A very custom designed PCB. Tells us water-blocks for this would be exotic.

 

[imperialreign]

...which would send ATI and not PowerColor back to the drawing boards. Remember, this is a very vendor-specific card, just like how Sapphire came up with a X1950 Pro X2.

true - but typically when the only thing added that's really different over current market models is DDR4, it tends to foreshadow a line of 'higher end' models from a few specific vendors.

 

[cdawall]

if someone orders me one of these i will happily test it out

 

[theonetruewill]

I'm really liking this innovation. I;m not a fan of just whacking on another card for Xfire or similar, but my opposition was that it just wasn't worth it. These 3870 X2's are the first viable dual GPU solution I've ever encountered. By dual GPU I mean dual cards, dual GPU on 1PCB or 2 GPU's on 2 PCB's sold as one card. ATi have really come up trumps with this design.

 

[cdawall]

I'm really liking this innovation. I;m not a fan of just whacking on another card for Xfire or similar, but my opposition was that it just wasn't worth it. These 3870 X2's are the first viable dual GPU solution I've ever encountered. By dual GPU I mean dual cards, dual GPU on 1PCB or 2 GPU's on 2 PCB's sold as one card. ATi have really come up trumps with this design.

what about the 3dfx 5500?

(image form erocker's FS thread)

 

[Ravenas]

if someone orders me one of these i will happily test it out

I'm ordering it with a danger den water block, but I'll be testing

 

[imperialreign]

what about the 3dfx 5500?

. . . .

(image form erocker's FS thread)

on topic - I'm thrilled to see ATI have found something that they excel at over nVidia at this point, and are running full steam with it.

 

[eidairaman1]

i wonder how cool the card stays, the cooler looks like a Design from the 7800 GTX 512/ 7900GTX