Mystery Radeon HD 'X2' Card Spy Shots

i have the power! amd says to nvidia

Wow, that card is as long as my... well, it's long.

Although TSMC cant produce these chips in large enough quatities, so it will be awhile before we see these bad boys.

So, can they play Crysis?

The real question is: Will it blend? XD

The on-board crossfire link gets toasty. There's no way they'd leave it uncovered. This card is a fakeasaurus rex.

Well the card may be real with a cooling setup that would never be used in manufacturing. Huge card!

nice homrqt, didn't think anyone was going to pickup on that... thumbs up for u!

right, because this hasn't been seen before... a month ago... the exact same card.... .

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I think this is the most interesting part: "We also know that AMD will be handpicking Cypress chips for their HD 5870-XTX which is due in Q1. Expect a big surprise from AMD, also in Q1." Sign me up for an HD 5870-XTX.

yeah too little cooling and power to such a card.

well we all don't go to hardwarecanucks now do we. Some of us have lives where we cant sit on the computer all day.

Apologies for the misquote - was direct at "anarchy4sale"

Also what's up with the no life comment? Just because I happen to visit websites which I think are a better source of reviews and information than Tom's or Alienbabeltech?

Looks like a FAKE card.

Notice: A GPU chip is between the two Coolers... Hmmm... kind of hard to COOL a GPU without a heatsink, muchless an actual cooling system.

The 5870 is already at the max size a computer case can hold. That card won't fit in most computers.

vote HOAX.

WOW that's a huge card,i hope the cooling/power consumption will be good

That chip in the middle that's between the two coolers would most likely be a Crossfire link chip.

The card is real, even if it's just an engineering sample. In other pictures around the interweb the PLX bridge chip has an aluminum heatsink on it.

Its a bad cooling design... its a fake. Look at the 5870 and other cards - the FANS are not put directly on top of the GPUs - as that reduces heat-sink area. The fans should / would be placed elsewhere.

Yeah, there are heat-pipes... but this looks improper.

looks fake to me. It looks like it has a 6 and an 8 pin power connector but i thought this beast would need 2 8pins. Also that chip between the coolers. and it doesn't look right where the fan power line terminates.

I'm sure the card will happen and is real, i'm just not convinced the one we see here is it.

Fake or not, it is a taste of what's to come.

Dang. Yeah I don't think that is gonna fit in my case . I doubt that's a retail design though considering the PCI-E bridge in the middle is uncovered. It will be interesting to see the performance numbers on two such cards in crossfire.

"why can't I see the end of the card?

Ah yes, thats because its following the curvature of the earth. its actually designed to shrink and grow by up to 20 feet depending on the season"

Nice, would like to see some benchmarks on that baby.

I think the long term question here is, do we have cases that can handle cards this long???

PCI expansion cards are limited in length by specification to 312mm (12.28"). This 5850x2 card seems to be around 297mm by my rough guess.

Not sure if the 5870x2 is longer though, but at 12" it would be exactly 305mm - still within specifications, but you'll need a crazy long case to house this in.

Awesome! Now I can max out MW2 while matchmaking works its wonders lol.

wonder how 2 of these would be in a rig. I get 200 fps.... or what? SUPER SWEET...