Radeon 3870 X2 At CES 2011

A lot of Radeon fans are waiting for this "hottie" to arrive on the market. The reference board is longer than a 2900XT card and thus would require quite a big computer case. It is said that it tops out in performance any 3870 CrossFire setup and that it has both GPUs (2 rv670 chips) running at 750MHz each (probably some more MHz at the official launch). What about the rest? Expect to see everything going on the double - 512MB of DDR4 x2, 2 DVi-to-HDMI ports. Performancewise - more than double - hardware specialists assume that if it does better than a CrossFire setup with 2 cards that have a single core each, obviously the performance will be quite satisfactory for most gamers. And that reminds me  - the developers at Crytek said that Crysis was a game which needs to be played on the next-gen computers in order for the gamer to be able to see all details in high resolution - this might happen a lot sooner than expected actually - due to the increasing speed of development in the PC hardware industry. The estimated price of this card presented at CES 2008 will range around $499.

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