PurSuiT Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 The 4870 x2 has 2GB of GDDR5 and is priced @ $549, 4850 x2 coming in Sept priced @ $349 http://www.pcworld.com/article/149698/amd_..._at_nvidia.html Do not expect to see alot of them selling until Friday the 15th though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 "ATI has always been clear about its strategy regarding the HD 4800-series – it would initially launch the single-GPU HD 4850 and HD 4870 cards, and then release a dual-GPU card to address the ultra-high performance end of the market. This dual-GPU card is the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The name sounds familiar since it follows the same naming scheme as the Radeon HD 3870 X2 but we hoped that this new card wouldn't be as frustrating. While the 3870 X2 boasted average frame rates were much better than a HD 3870, we found the minimum frame rates we experienced in games were typically lower than single GPU cards in most titles, making for a more stuttery, unsatisfying gaming experience than with the cheaper, single-GPU HD 3870. ATI has had time to develop its drivers and hardware since the HD 3870 X2, however." http://www.custompc.co.uk/reviews/604626/a...hd-4870-x2.html http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7900.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 You will need one of these to run 4 GPUs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 You will need one of these to run 4 GPUs Specs are only 286W per card, so need atleast 572 Watts just for the video cards. So think you could get away with a 1000W PSU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Once they get the drivers squared away and the price comes down to $300, then I will add one for a 3 GPU combo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 If a 3870 goes for less than $100 I may get one to add to my 3870x2.... 3GPU for the heck of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 Let the carnage begin http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102768 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814161242 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814103066 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 If a 3870 goes for less than $100 I may get one to add to my 3870x2.... 3GPU for the heck of it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814121217 x3870 $84.99 after rebate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) Sub $100 3870's!! Now you are talking price to performance!! Why pay $450 more for a 4870x2 when you won't see any performance increase at all... I don't know... I'm just noticing that the core clock on that card is 775mhz so that wouldn't work w/ my ASUS 3870x2 in crossfireX too well since it's 825mhz... Edited August 13, 2008 by DaPoets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I just bought this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814121233 ASUS 3870 TOP at 851Mhz core 2280Mhz Memory Clock 512mb GDDR4 $119 from newegg and I guess I got the last one because when I just went back to look for it they said out of stock haha. This will fit nice w/ my 3870x2 which runs at 825mhz core in a CrossfireX setup. 3 GPU ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 14, 2008 Author Share Posted August 14, 2008 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10013992-92.html "The 4870 X2 is rated at 2.4 TFLOPs (or teraFLOPs a common yardstick for raw graphics chip compute power) and communicates with memory at 230GB per second, while the 4850 X2 is rated at 2.0 TFLOPs and has a memory bandwidth of 128GB/sec. Both boards will integrate 1600 stream processors, which do parallel processing on streams of data." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Mmmm, frames... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 My same question though, is there anything out there that needs this? Paying an extra $400 for something for what it can do, but not what it will actually be used for is kinda a waste until prices drop down from the $550 mark to the $200 area like the 3870x2's which run everything on high anyway with more FPS to spare than the human eye can even see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted August 14, 2008 Author Share Posted August 14, 2008 If I was looking for a card right now, I would go with the x4870 (sinlge) in the $260 range and beats out the x3870x2 on 99% of everything (reason the 3870x2 is so cheap). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPoets Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 yeah the 4870 is a much nicer card, but for the games out today (GRID, Crysis, WoW, TF2, BF2, CoD4) you would not be able to tell the difference w/ game settings all on high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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