AMD 3870 X2 official specs!

[pathan7]

http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=2134

Official specs of 3870 X2 revealed. Check it out

 

[night_wolf_in]

looks neat. tho i guess we have to wait for the benchies.

 

[Kari]

"666 million transistors"
lol it's evil...

 

[xx12amanxx]

So when can we expect to see this in stores?

 

[shargrath]

"666 million transistors"
lol it's evil...

:O. 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.

other then that,
hawtness, (no pun)
cant waitt.

edit:the image links aren't working fo meh.

 

[Falken699]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[leo2kp]

Aaaaand, NVidia's response is...

 

[qwertycopter]

the image links aren't working fo meh.

Direct links to the images:

http://www.hardspell.com/pic/article/2007/12/24/1e75f9f5-4bd5-4d4b-a4f8-df38051db0af.jpg
http://www.hardspell.com/pic/article/2007/12/24/f5751575-0b63-4552-b30c-62a5b6a62f4b.jpg
http://www.hardspell.com/pic/article/2007/12/24/1f58b372-f884-4ab9-8cb7-7012e9845b22.jpg
http://www.hardspell.com/pic/article/2007/12/24/be01ee83-cf1d-4ffc-b54c-655306f78b99.jpg

I think this card is a bit longer than a GTX!

 

[mtyermom]

Sure, 640 stream processors... yay.

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.

 

[Evilonigiri]

You can't Quad-crossfire these, can you?

 

[Evilonigiri]

So that's Octo-crossfire then.

 

[sailer]

So that's Octo-crossfire then.

That's getting out the marshmellows or hot dogs to roast on the heat output.

Now where was that add for a 1500wt psu?

 

[Hatman]

No octo it doesnt have enough connectors, 2 of these or 4 of the single ones for quad xfire.


Idk why people say "will this beat dual 3850???" etc...


Obivously if its a 3870x2 then it is 2x 3870's which means it will beat 2x 3850s!!


Common sense people!


Atleast xfire scales extremely well compared to SLI so this will likely match 2x 8800GT in most things.


It isn't really crippled by ROPS you just use the shaders to do AA instead.

 

[Evilonigiri]

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?

 

[kpo6969]

Here's a 1.2k
http://www.pcpower.com/power-supply/turbo-cool-1200.html

 

[aznguy0028]

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?

 

[thepinkpanther]

we'll see when it comes out, ati never has power at the start then they pull that ace outta nowhere, usually too little too late!

 

[mtyermom]

Can't wait to see benchies for this thing. If it performs as well as is speculated, it may very well be the card for my in progress build.

 

[Hatman]

I said it CAN be quad crossfired, since it has 2 gpu's, but 4 of them cannot be used to make octo, just 2 of those cards for quad.

Np strangestranger sry 4 being so aggressive btw


Should perform just as well as 2x 3870's in xfire so have a look to see how well they do.


Tbh it should need a stupid amount of power... a single 3870 is rated 100watt so if its like the GX2 powerwise it should be less tbh it would be around 150watt for a single 3870x2. So dual ones of these will likely use less power than dual GTX's.

 

[justinmcg67]

It's a rumor...

- The AMD logo in the upper right hand corner for every image is not centered, when using a "official" PowerPoint presentation, all the logos should be even with each other, it's professionalism. Look at every official thing AMD has said in the past, it's even, clean-cut, it's professional. These are sloppy and don't look anything even close to professional.

- If these were official specs, DailyTech or TG Daily would be all over it like a nude celebrity and the tabloids. But, some no-name site is covering the OFFICIAL specs? ...right.

Until this comes from a serious and legit source, I'm calling this one BS. Nothing seems legit about this article.

 

[Annisman]

dam you just shot down all my hopes and dreams.... guess it's back to cutting myself

 

[gamebro]

Well, if those aren't the real stats, don't ya think it'll still be close to that? 1teraflop seems realistic when you think of 2 3870's working together right?

 

[nukchebi0]

It should be under, since the 8800GT gets only 504 Gigaflops, and the 3870 is weaker.

 

[Hatman]

Evevn if its not legit the stats of it should be right it IS what AMD is aiming for, dual 3870 that has been on the go for months.