Radeon 3870 X2 - 17414 3dmarks

That's amazing. Finally an ATI dual gpu card with some serious horsepower. How much will be the very important role to wether this card will be successful, or just another collectible.

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At resolution of 2560x1600, scoring 9,573 3DMark06!




17,414 3DMark06 at 1280x1024 !

Rumor price of $400 - $500. Serious come back here, I hope.

That's unbelievable. Need more proof.

Man, that thing is longer than a whore's dream.
Anyone know what the length is? I don't think it will fit my case.

I wonder what 2 of these puppies will score ? they are suppose to scale well. So maybe over 20k ?

I don't know how long it is but it looks a lot longer than mine.

Notice the card has only one bridge connection. Probably limited only to two dual graphics card (2x2) crossfire.

Its not longer than mine but its much faster.. is that a bad thing or a good thing... Oh I forget what we are talking about!

Coompared to 8800GTX SLI two card solution it does well but still can't beat in 3Dmark06 but 3Dmark06 has been historically moe favorable to the 6XX architecture which has never tranlated into gaming performance. So great for 3Dmark06 benchmarkers but not the same for in game performance. It is still won't be as fast as the 9800GX2 which can beat a two card 8800GTX SLI. If the price is right and you have a huge as case, that might be a good deal.

I wonder if it'd fit in my Antec 900? Here's to hoping! If the $400-$500 price point holds true over here in the UK it's going to be competing with the 8800GTS 512 (currently around £200-£250) and from the looks of things should soundly beat it.

Sorry not yet the 3dmark score was all I could get hold of.

Where did you get that info from? or is that your own crossfired 3870 setup? sorry for being slow

I wanna see how ATIs scaling methods fare with 3 and 4cards at lower resoltions.

Thatll depend on who the enthusiasts go for.

With a C2D and 8800GT 512, I'm, getting ONLY 3500 on 3DMark06 1.10(the free version with 6 different anims).
does this suck? It looks about as bad as my old 7800GS !

I noticed COD4 playing very slowly lately. only 40fps on 1024x768 (I normally played at 1900x1200 and Vista64). I reinstalled windows and new drivers, same thing.
Strangely Crysis is doing about the same as I remember before, so I don't think the hardware/firmware is damaged.

I'll try going back to XP.

HELP !!!!

Have you tried different nVidia drivers, like the beta or older versions? Get a driver removal tool to erase all nVidia files before reinstalling, just to make sure It almost seems like windows graphics drivers are in place. My system (signature) gets well over 10,000 3D Marks at 1024x768 w/ Vista 32 bit (I think it was around 13k).

has someone mentioned psu yet? what have you got? try a different power cable to the card. You should have a few if youve got a decent psu, my crappy tagan has 4 pci leads.

Thanks for the suggestions people.
By the way, I never used the 7800GS with Vista (I got vista after I upgraded the card). I just remember that 3DMark06 score when I used the 7800GS with XP.
yes, the mobo got the newest flash - 1226 on Asus P5B Deluxe. I also got the newest chipset drivers installed also.
I have a 700w seasonic PSU (with 2 real PCIe plugs) with 1 E6400 and 1 8800GT

The Vista Performance Index gives me 5.9 for graphics (5.7 total). I am not sure if the Vista Index is a real benchmark or 5.9 never was a good enough score.

I will reseat the card and power connector. I don't see how this can make a card slower, but I'll do it anyway.
I also installed XP, so I will check if that helps any.

well its kinda a last resort if all else fails and takes 2 minutes to test out. A card without adequate power might work up to a point, say enough to get windows to boot and do general non-gaming stuff but 3d needs more juice as the whole card lights up with activity so it wont work properly. Sorry thats clear as mud lol. You could try carefully reseating the card an trying a different power cable, but since youve got a 700w quality psu i think this whole avenue might be fruitless. You might have some oddball driver problem if not a problem with your card. Try what everyone else said and then report back if somethings still amiss.

Given the current trends on current high end graphics card dimensions (GeForce 9800GTX and now HD3870 X2) I wonder whether or not a large graphics card suppord group should be started...................LGCSG.org anyone?

Any Crysis DX10 benchies??

Enewmen have you checked your bios to see if your CPU multiplier is off?

So can we get the specs on this thing already? Usually we hear the specs before benchmarks.

Ok, I'll check this next. I did notice the card running slow AFTER I flashed the Motherboard BIOS to the latest version.
However, the CPU itself is running at full speed 8 * 400Mhz = 3200 Mhz.
Thanks!

Problems like this drive me crazy

I'm guessing these games like to eat up a lot of vram

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Notice the CrossFire bridge on the card to the left. At least this will run on (2x2) CrossFire.

Nice.

As i have predicted the reason there is not 9800GTX is ati has nvidia by the balls

1) the 2 gpu on one pcb totally blows away nvidia dual pcb
2) crossfire is more effiecent

look for nvidia stock to fall all year

2 look for dual 3870 x2 systems by alien, nw falcon and other the other noobies for $8000 ($4000 from me for better!)


intel quad and 2 3870 x2 will run 25k and meet 3-way sli

780i mobo's have a third lane dogged by pci-e1 1.1 speed
sli is less effecient

nvidia will complete with the new dual pcb card but ati will win!

as predicted!


ps amd bottom today at less then $5 get it why you can at $6