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The R700. No ones sure of the clocks, only guesses at this point. Also, will we see a somewhat gauranteed 1.8 scaling? Lots of interest in this card.

beautiful, simply beautiful is all I can say.

I must be in love.

I am interested in this supposed 4890 that is supposed to be an even higher clocked 4870, so like a core clock of at least 900-ish right?

Edit: I also cannot wait for that fabled RV740 w/ a 45 nm chip w/ 480 SP! The price point on that has to make it a killer mainstream card, simply killer!

I think the 4840 will go against the GT and cream it, at a better price point. ATI needs to get these cards out soon, as nVidia is dumping all their old 8xxx cards on the cheap

I am kinda on the fence about the x2... Each graphics core only has 512 mb memory, and if I am running a crossfire setup I want each graphics core to have 1 gb of memory (like 2 4870s) but I want to build a comp with tons of calculating power (like the x2). I wonder if an x2 with 2 gb of memory will come out?

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=9 at the bottom artitect for crossfire for R700 they have a section for crossfire in the artictect. Seems like a bag of lucky charms

Yea it could have very well been photocroped but one thing is certian ATI has something up thier sleeve with this card with crossfire. It only makes sense in how ATI is going with 200/300 price market first and work their way up, using crossfire to win against NIDIA's high end card. Would benifit them in the highest long term.

"Call of Duty 4
AMD's architecture did very well under Call of Duty 4 in the single-card tests, with a single Radeon HD 4870 performing better than a GeForce GTX 260. The scaling from one to two cards is beyond perfect in CoD4, the reason being that we test on two different platforms (Intel X48 for CrossFire, NVIDIA 790i for all single-cards), the end result is a rare case where two of AMD's $300 cards actually outperform two of NVIDIA's $650 cards. By no means is it the norm, but it is a testament to the strength of AMD's RV770 GPU." found that bit scary

Part of the problem which will continue to show is, nVidias chipsets sometimes have problems, and sometimes cant perform to peak . They just arent as consistent as Intels. Theres going to be individual games where the ATI cards are just plain fastest, due to the demands of the game, and the ability of the card in question. That also means theres going to be games where nVidia cards show a higher increase over their ATI competing cards. Add this in with the possibility to even those games that favor nVidia with the ability of whatever it is that ATI is doing, which just may turn out to be a somewhat solid 1.8x consistentcy in their new setup, then ATI will even look good in those nVidia favored games

omg, i found my one true love

until the next gen

great cards... but umm.... anyone got some spare change? i'm saving up... :-p

Well not shure how much more money it will be since it is GDDR5 double the memory.

What that may mean is, theyre trying to get intercommunication between die BEFORE cf, for better scalability, at a hoped for 1.8x. Supposedly at 499 USD and coming the last week of July http://translate.google.com/transl [...] 26fs%3dc1n

One more link for 4870x2:
http://www.guru3d.com/news/radeon-hd-4870-x2-photos/

Oh I see, thanks jaydeejohn.

Hah, only after the revision, my Antec 900 and PC P&C 750w are screaming at the thought of those things...

When they saw how bad the GTX280 was.

4870 already beats the gx280 or is on par in all cases where frame rates are actually playable (gx280 will probably beat a 4870 in crysis on the highest resolution where both are unplayable in any case).
and is half the price.

so the 4870x2 will beat the 280 for sure. no contest..

There will never be a 4850x2.

Putting 2 of those very quick chips (4850 chip is the same as 4870) and then limiting all that power with dd3 memory would be pointless....it wouldn't really be able to stretch its legs.

If they did give it the ddr5 memory, then it would basicly be just a lower clocked 4870x2 which people would then just get and overclock to 4870 speeds.

yeah, lesser config.'s will work in fact, but you know it all depends on what you are actually using it for, you know?

what do you mean 2 x dvi cables?

I would do a little research on that, b/c I ahve seenon 26" monitors two DVI ports, so i wonder fi that is true or not...?

My 24" doesn't So I assume if what you are saying is true than 1900*1200 res. doesn't need an extra DVI cable...

I do know this for a fact though: " - And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals." -some dude on this forum.

no, you need a dual link DVI connector, not dual dvi connectors. DHCP compliancy is slightly different and is to do with the I/O connectors on the equipment themselves rather than cables AFAIK.

Dual link DVI connector? I am not sure I understand.

a dual link dvi socket is one that has two signal transmitters instead of one allowing for twice the bandwidth. a single link dvi can only really manage 19 x 10 res so you need the extra bandwidth to handle the higher res of the 30".

look up the wikipedia article for a better explanation.

Dual link DVI is a single cable, but it has more pins.

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