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.Sup wrote:

HD 4870X2 R700 launch 12 august, scores X6920

Price...
...500€

According to some recent AMD documents, in just about one month, on August 12, the performance crown will again switch owners and move from Santa Clara to Sunnyvale. Yes August 12 is the debut day of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 aka R700 aka Spartan graphics card.

Featuring two RV770 chips on one PCB, the R700 will offer the power of 1600 Stream Processors and 2GB of GDDR5 memory plus a 2 x 256-bit memory interface, DirectX 10.1 support, PCI-Express 2.0 connectivity, UVD 2 (Unified Video Decoder) and CrossFireX. The latest reports put the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in the $500+ price zone so we hope you saved quite a few (Euro) cents in these last few months.

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

HD 4870X2 R700 launch 12 august, scores X6920

Price...
...500€

According to some recent AMD documents, in just about one month, on August 12, the performance crown will again switch owners and move from Santa Clara to Sunnyvale. Yes August 12 is the debut day of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 aka R700 aka Spartan graphics card.

Featuring two RV770 chips on one PCB, the R700 will offer the power of 1600 Stream Processors and 2GB of GDDR5 memory plus a 2 x 256-bit memory interface, DirectX 10.1 support, PCI-Express 2.0 connectivity, UVD 2 (Unified Video Decoder) and CrossFireX. The latest reports put the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in the $500+ price zone so we hope you saved quite a few (Euro) cents in these last few months.

Source?

Bell wrote:

Buddy of mine is a beta tester for ATi/AMD which for the last two year's hasnt been that impressive, but he got a 4850 early, and has hinted at these X2s and he mentioned it to me, I also read this:

Well, if I've understood everything so far then the 4870X2 is only really suited to those running a 64 bit OS with 4GB RAM, due to the fact that in case the 2GB on the R700 it maps into system memory ie the old 4Gb really gives you 3.25Gb in XP.

Martyn

.Sup wrote:

Bell wrote:

Buddy of mine is a beta tester for ATi/AMD which for the last two year's hasnt been that impressive, but he got a 4850 early, and has hinted at these X2s and he mentioned it to me, I also read this:

Well, if I've understood everything so far then the 4870X2 is only really suited to those running a 64 bit OS with 4GB RAM, due to the fact that in case the 2GB on the R700 it maps into system memory ie the old 4Gb really gives you 3.25Gb in XP.

Martyn

But I still don't understand why 64bit OS? And does that mean 2x4870 1GB is worth getting if you don't have 4 GBs? Hope not, cos I really wanted to get either those 1GB cards or the X2.

.Sup wrote:

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

.Sup wrote:

But I still don't understand why 64bit OS? And does that mean 2x4870 1GB is worth getting if you don't have 4 GBs? Hope not, cos I really wanted to get either those 1GB cards or the X2.

64bit OS because 32bit OS can't access more than 4GB.

But Martyn didn't say you need MORE than 4GBs of ram. As far as I understood him you need at least 4Gb so the problem is the missing 0.75GBs that you can't get in Xp.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

In the army now....

Basic training going on. Combat training starts next week. And shooting with live ammo. <3

ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, said that it would release two versions of its high-end dual-chip ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards to target different market segments. In addition, the company said, it is testing 8-way multi-GPU technology, but has no immediate plans to release the technology commercially.


"The HD 4870 X2 is going to be available in August. There will be two different flavors for that, available at different price points," said Chris Hook, head of desktop platform PR and performance communication, in an interview with Techtree web-site.

Currently little is known about the specifications of the different ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 flavours, but a natural guess would be to expect different memory configurations on two boards. This will allow ATI to address customers with different budgets and be a little more flexible in terms of costs.

In addition, representative of AMD indicated that the company had begun playing with 8-way multi-GPU technology, but did not say when it plans to make such technology available for consumers.

"As an aside, AMD has already built a computer that has four 4870 X2s in it. So it has eight GPUs; drivers will not be supporting eight GPUs at this point of time," Mr. Hook said.

Potentially, eight graphics processing units may offer extreme performance and quality, however, given that virtually all games are rendered using alternate frame rendering mode (the mode when each graphics chips render their own frames in parralel, which has a number of drawbacks, one of which is freezing) in multi-GPU environments, the actual potential of 8-way multi-GPU graphics sub-system may never be demonstrated in real-world video-games (which frequently require results of the previous frame to render the next one).