Mystery Radeon HD 'X2' Card Spy Shots
By - Source: Tom's Hardware US
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What could that be!?
These days, it's not enough to have just one GPU. Sometimes you need to have a couple video cards in your system. But to be even cooler, you need to have multiple GPUs on the same card.
AlienBabelTech has images of a mystery card from ATI that features 1440 stream processors, pointing to the Radeon HD 5850. The card is believed to be the HD 5950, or perhaps the HD 5850-X2.
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yes it can, and the decision has already been made to call it the 5950.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/video/ati-radeon-hd-5870-x2-images-surface/
I'm just saying - we know it exists, we know what it looks like - it was in the news a month ago and THG is acting likes its the "first pictures ever released". Alienbabeltech have the card in their possession, why can't we see some benchmarks. Why not show something original?
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?
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.
Yeah, there are heat-pipes... but this looks improper.