. ati, three letters, times 3 by every letter and you get 3 3 3 or nine...divide nine by three and you get three...3 numbers for each letter..if you times them by two...you get,,,6 6 6, dear god.
Ok, I haven't posted in a long time now. I was reading this and with my 8800 640 I feel like I was living under a rock.
640 Stream Processors??? That is totally insane.
Well, I give up. I am going to only buy new systems at this point with each "revolutionary" game that comes out, that marks a new Game Engine generation, ex. Doom 3, Crysis, etc.
My next new system will be when then next engine AFTER Crysis is out. Then I will WAIT until an x4 or x8 Videocard of that generation can get 60 FRAMES PER SECOND 1080P or else I ain't buying nothing.
There. That tactic seems foolproof. I will never buy for a game again to be burned at sub-30 FPS gameplay. Lesson learned. Just blew 400+$ a few months ago for 96 stream processors now we are up to 640????
Live and learn.
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Looks hawt. Although I'm sure my 8800GT will be fine for me until the generation that follows the 9800gtx. No thankyou to buying a new card every generation.
But this looks exciting for anyone about to build.
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i like the design better than nvidia's dual pcb method ala their gx2 product but i will need to see benchies as to how it compares to dual 3850's and also if ati has better luck with qaud crossfire than nvidia had with quad sli.
Too bad it's crippled by a lack of RoPs and TMUs. (only 16 each per GPU so a total of 32 each for the x2, which severely bottlenecks all your pretty stream processors)
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I'd really love one of these cards. I'm just disappointed in ATI for not improving upon a blatant shortcoming in their flagship product. Would 8 more of each RoP and TMU have really increased cost that much? I'm willing to bet the cost would have been offset by the reduction of the memory lanes.
Message edited by mtyermom on 12-26-2007 at 08:18:57 PM
Actually Hatman, I just read the last link posted by qwertycoptor. It says it can be quad-crossfired. PSU support is another thing...Jesus, where's that 2k PSU?
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i think i need a change of boxers :T the ati fanboy inside of me is crying tears of happiness T_T...and here i was bout to go for a 8800GTS. but we'll see how the 9xxx series stands eh?
. ati, three letters, times 3 by every letter and you get 3 3 3 or nine...divide nine by three and you get three...3 numbers for each letter..if you times them by two...you get,,,6 6 6, dear god.