PowerColor shows us the first 3870 X2 with GDDR4.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:48:20 Tue, March 04, 2008

Look what I found in the parser today! The card has what looks like 3 DVI ports, one HDMI port and the GDDR4 is clocked to 2,252MHz instead of the 1,800MHz GDDR3 stock speed. Super fast memories for everyone!

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:10:38 PM

anonymous
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link doesnt work for me :(

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:27:12 PM

Striderzorness
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this card just keeps getting better, its almost made me want to get it instead of a 9800gx2. what do you guys think about 3870x2 vs. 9800gx2?

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:39:48 PM

anonymousP
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@Striderzorness I think they'll be at similar price/performance ratios. The 9800GX2 will be a better performer by a fair margin, but it will also be more expensive by a fair margin. It'll pretty much depend on what resolutions you like to game at.

However, I hear rumors that you'll be able to link up two 3870X2s in crossfire. If nVidia repeats 7850GX2 performance, SLI performance will be virtually useless.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:30:02 AM

anonymous
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PowerColor is the best man!! I have a PowerColor Radeon HD3850 512MB and PowerColor have help me to OverClock the thing to 720MHz Core and 900MHz memory. The Cooler on it is soo powerful

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:43:57 PM

GPU Expert
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WTF!!! This card beats the world record in memory bandwidth, 144GB/s I calcualted it myself, The formula: 512/4000 X 1125. Damn, should have wait for this, I bought 4 MSI RX3870 X2, can't get them to work though, no driver support currently. Hope I can find a Intel MotherBoard with 4 PCIe slots. I'm currently using ASUS P5E3-Premium/WiFi, X48 Express Chipset. I'm just showing -off :P

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:20:19 PM

Striderzorness
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damn man 144GBs Memory bandwidth is crazy, i bet games out cant even take advantage of that much

Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:02:49 AM

Dincon
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GPU Expert

I thought these will only work with two and not with four.

Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:42:03 AM

anonymousP
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@GPU Expert I thought they weren't going to support quad Crossfire with the 3870X2 because technically its already in Crossfire.

Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:17:04 PM

Sunny
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Quad crossfire or shall I say crossfire X will only work with two of these cards. There is only one crossfire bridge connector allowing only 2 to connect to eachother. Unless you have another pc you actually bough 2 extra cards GPU Expert.

Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:06:57 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Cheers... GDDR4 . Performance-wise it'll do virtually nothing ... maybe an extra 0.5 FPS .

Monday, March 10, 2008 12:58:59 AM

GPU Expert
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I'm waiting for the driver for 4 Radeon HD3870 X2 to be released, I think ATi is going to release a 4 way CrossFire bridge for this card. I have 2 in my PC now, the other 2 lend it it to both of my sisters, one each (such a waste for them because they only use their PC for online chat)

Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:15:30 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

Unfortunately the problem with the latest ATI offering isn't the memory bandwidth (they have plenty), but the lack of TMU's and ROPS. So this shouldn't do much, although I would check out reviews to be sure.

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