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Amir Abbas
As we were saying here, the new dual-GPU video card based on the Radeon's HD3870 GPU should arrive in a couple of days, but fortunately, more details about it emerged a bit earlier, so it's my pleasure to tell you what's new about the card that's going to "double the excitement, triple the action" for gamers all around the world!
This is not the first dual-GPU card powered by ATI chips, but it's the first time when ATI does it, because previous attempts were made by third parties, such as Asus, Sapphire or MSI.Now, we know the following - the 3870 X2 will have two GPUs, each running at about 770MHz, with memory clocked at 2.25GHz, and its power consumption will be about the same, or even lower, than a single 2900XT card. If you have enough resources (you know, "re$ource$"...), you can grab two of these beauties and quickly setup a Quad-CrossFire system with only two video cards(that should take care of the cable nightmare that occurs when installing 4 cards in the same case...), and when it comes to performance...
What can you expect from such an impressive piece of hardware? I won't give any estimation, because I just passed through some early benchmark result leaked on the Web, and that one left me speachless. Do you think a score of 9573 (SM2.0: 4494, SM3.0/HDR:4476) in 3DMark06, at the insane resolution of 2560X1600 is enough?
This is not the first dual-GPU card powered by ATI chips, but it's the first time when ATI does it, because previous attempts were made by third parties, such as Asus, Sapphire or MSI.Now, we know the following - the 3870 X2 will have two GPUs, each running at about 770MHz, with memory clocked at 2.25GHz, and its power consumption will be about the same, or even lower, than a single 2900XT card. If you have enough resources (you know, "re$ource$"...), you can grab two of these beauties and quickly setup a Quad-CrossFire system with only two video cards(that should take care of the cable nightmare that occurs when installing 4 cards in the same case...), and when it comes to performance...
What can you expect from such an impressive piece of hardware? I won't give any estimation, because I just passed through some early benchmark result leaked on the Web, and that one left me speachless. Do you think a score of 9573 (SM2.0: 4494, SM3.0/HDR:4476) in 3DMark06, at the insane resolution of 2560X1600 is enough?
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