ATi Launches The Radeon HD 3870 X2

Posted By: Michael Thomas - 03:18:16 Mon, January 28, 2008

Today ATi finally unveils the highly anticipated and oft-rumored 3870 X2. So far the results look very positive. The multi-gpu implementation is reportedly very solid and performance is above an 8800 Ultra (but still shy of 2 8800 GTs). ATi has managed to steal the high end crown from nVidia once more, though I think we all know the X2's stay on the throne will be short (i.e. the impending 9800 GX2).

For now though, the X2 is king, and we have all the reviews and retail card info you could want right here:

Radeon HD 3870 X2

7 Comments

Monday, January 28, 2008 5:11:42 AM

wyz135
guest

Does this card requires a Crossfire-support chipset in order to run like Intel P965, G33, P35, 975X etc. ??

Monday, January 28, 2008 6:59:01 PM

anonymous
guest

noooo why you people dont understand!!!
2 cores in the same card dont mean crossfire/sli!!!!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:05:54 AM

wyz135
guest

@anonymous but this card needs crossfire config like the 7950GX2, people has been complaining 7950GX2 can't run with Intel X38

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:04:15 PM

Striderzorness
guest

@ wyz135
Nah man, having 2 cores on one card has nothing to do with crossfire or sli, you can run them on any standard x16 pcie board.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:47:27 AM

anonymous
guest

didnt the dualx1950pro require a CF compatible mobo?

Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:09:49 AM

wyz135
guest

@anonymous We are talking about if 2 cores on a single needs a crossfire support chipset, Dual X1950PRO of course need a crossfire support chipste, it needs 2 PCIe connectors

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:02:21 PM

pk7
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8800 GTX, GTS 512, and Ultra are all still faster when you crank up AA and AF at high resolutions actually.

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