Radeon 3870 X2 Pictures!

Bear in mind that the G92_300 series, the GeForce 8850GX2 or 8950GX2, whatever Nvidia marketeers figure it out to be - is also a dual-chip board. It is widely expected that Nvidia's card will be the same as 7900GX2 and 7950GX2, or a dual-PCB connected with 20-or-so connecting pins, all working in harmony with Nvidia's BR04 chip.

Why don't they just develop dual-core GPUs versus dual-GPU cards? It'd probably save a lot of space, power, money in manufacturing, and heat.

Dual PCB > long ass PCB that only fits in a few cases.

i like the single pcb better. dual gpus never really took off much due to being late price. if u price the card at 50% more than a single gu solution itll work but if u double it...meh

@anonymous Because the term "dual-core GPU" doesn't make any sense. GPUs have been dual core since 1998. GPUs are multi-core almost by definition. This question keeps coming up over and over and it makes my blood boil because it just shows that nobody really understands what is going on here.

There are rumors about the GX2 card to be released in Q1 2008

Why doesn't anybody think "QUAD-GPU" ? Would that kick some esse in Crysis, or what ? And, for less money than Dual-8800gtx. I believe we would have a winner on our hands.

It seems that finally I'll give some use to that 1000W power supply,

* I meant to say "for less money than 8800gtx-sli"

"NotMe" - Quad core AMD graphics already exist, this is their next step to possibly 2 X Quad core set up.

Can you put these in quad-Crossfire? If so, is there a PSU that could actually maintain the power draw? That'd be like 8 GPUs all working together... eat that Crysis!

It looks interesting, but it reminds too much on Voodoo5 6000. When 1950pro Dual came out, nVidia fanboys said ATI is following the fate of 3DFX. I didn't took such statements serious, but now I am little frightened seeing multi-core video cards in dual slot form draining a lots of power and dissapating large amounts of heat.

Dear God that's amazing. But as much as I want one, the January launch kills it for me. It would seem a better idea to just get a pair of 3850's or 3870's which are available now, not in 2 months. Very nice option for those with single-slot boards and quad CF on 2 boards would be nice!

they should put the fan in the center even though it would put hot air in the case as the other GPU is using recycled exahaust of the other and looks to be more efficient cooling as it will not be forcing the air one way.

u mean suck air in the case? not good.

So... how does this thing compare to dual HD 3870 in CF ? "Can you put these in quad-Crossfire? If so, is there a PSU that could actually maintain the power draw? That'd be like 8 GPUs all working together... eat that Crysis!" If you somehow force drivers to recognize that setup ,then maybe . And a 1kW PSU might be enough . One second thought... a 1.2kW one rather .

@anonymous temp: Nvidia is doing the same thing, and have done the same thing with the 7950 GX2, so I wouldn't be overly concerned.

@Radiator: actually I managed to answer my own question. They can't be run in quad crossfire because they only have one bridge connector, unlike the two of the standard cards. However, if they scale well, they could get similar performance to quad crossfire without needing 4 PCI-Ex16 slots.

lets see..each gpu needs some 65-75 w so 300-350 on the 12v just for these? not much needed in psu..silverstone 650 will do....500 maybe :p

to Radiator and others that asked, these 3870 X2's cannot be used in a quad set up, only a dual set up. CrossFireX only supports quad set ups right now, and 2 of these cards equal 4 cards.

If you actually buy two of these that is quad crossfire. If you mean quad cards for a total of 8 3870's that wouldn't work because they only supply one crossfire connector on the PCB board. So two cards is the max you can have.

But still... you can put 2 of these X2's right ? That would mean 4 cards... I wonder what the performance would be like... 1280 stream processors :O .

There is a big chance that the R700 generation will carry the Radeon HD 4000 generation name, but there is also a chance that ATI will lose the HD prefix or completely change the name.The entire R7x0 generation is based on the R700 mini core. It is quite simple, a single core on a single die is low-end, two cores on a single die is mid-range, while four or more cores on a single die is high-end. ATI will have to put these R700 cores together and will use the same architecture chip but multiplied in the mid and high-end market. Sounds interesting doesn't it? It also explains why ATI is pushing so hard for a Quad CrossFireX driver, so show of their Quad-GPU power.

The R700 is a small single core and if you want a high-end you will have to put more of these together. With lower dissipation and 45 nanometer it will be possible to have four, or even six, smaller cores. The R700 single core will be similar to what we seen in the guise of the RV670. The new chip will support DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, among other things. Imagine a chip that can have three or even more times performance of the current RV670, and this might give you a glimpse of what is coming in a not so far future...

The next generation of ATI's latest greatest multicore chip has a chance to be close to or to even break the 2 teraflop mark. The RV670 XT chip is close to 500 gigaflops, while the R700 XT might even get as fast as 1.9 teraflops, if not even more. Depending on the final clock the new card might even do 2 teraflops, and this will certainly speed up games or GPGPU calculations, up to four times. Imagine if you put two of these in CrossFire, you might even get to 4 teraflops, but now we are really pushing it.

I know I want to try a pair of these! Although I can't wait to see what Nvidia will come up with? This would be a good choice for single PCI-E mobo's. Or even those with two PCI-E Mobo's such as the X38's and they will be able to have pretty much four cards with two slots thats cool.

o_0 godamnit .. lol last time i went here the longest card in the world was still the .. wait i think it still the VooDoo 5 6000 .. it is ? anyway wow huge shit XD