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Mystery Radeon HD 'X2' Card Spy Shots

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

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.

 

Check out a couple more pictures of the card here.

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njkid3 11/10/2009 8:26 PM
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i have the power! amd says to nvidia

jonpaul37 11/10/2009 8:29 PM
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Wow, that card is as long as my... well, it's long.

IronRyan21 11/10/2009 8:31 PM
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Although TSMC cant produce these chips in large enough quatities, so it will be awhile before we see these bad boys.

jacobdrj 11/10/2009 8:31 PM
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aznriptide859 11/10/2009 8:35 PM
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The real question is: Will it blend? XD

curnel_D 11/10/2009 8:39 PM
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The on-board crossfire link gets toasty. There's no way they'd leave it uncovered. This card is a fakeasaurus rex.

roofus 11/10/2009 8:44 PM
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Well the card may be real with a cooling setup that would never be used in manufacturing. Huge card!

xaira 11/10/2009 8:56 PM
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jacobdrj :
So, can they play Crysis?



yes it can, and the decision has already been made to call it the 5950.

jonpaul37 11/10/2009 9:11 PM
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nice homrqt, didn't think anyone was going to pickup on that... thumbs up for u!

bainne 11/10/2009 9:14 PM
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right, because this hasn't been seen before... a month ago... the exact same card.... .

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/new [...] -surface/" title="right, because this hasn't been seen before... a month ago... the exact same card.... http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/new [...] s-surface/

brockh 11/10/2009 9:14 PM
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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.

nekoangel 11/10/2009 9:16 PM
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yeah too little cooling and power to such a card.

anarchy4sale 11/10/2009 9:16 PM
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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.

bainne 11/10/2009 9:19 PM
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brockh :
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.




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?

bainne 11/10/2009 9:22 PM
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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?

belardo 11/10/2009 9:22 PM
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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.

Maziar 11/10/2009 9:24 PM
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WOW that's a huge card,i hope the cooling/power consumption will be good

climber 11/10/2009 10:19 PM
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That chip in the middle that's between the two coolers would most likely be a Crossfire link chip.

Sihastru 11/10/2009 10:48 PM
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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.

belardo 11/10/2009 10:57 PM
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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.

bfstev 11/10/2009 11:14 PM
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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.

buwish 11/10/2009 11:21 PM
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Fake or not, it is a taste of what's to come.

AtuBrian 11/10/2009 11:27 PM
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aznriptide859 :
The real question is: Will it blend? XD


lol

megamanx00 11/11/2009 12:04 PM
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Dang. Yeah I don't think that is gonna fit in my case :D. 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.

matt87_50 11/11/2009 12:39 PM
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"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"

gomi 11/11/2009 2:02 AM
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Nice, would like to see some benchmarks on that baby.

liquidsnake718 11/11/2009 3:24 AM
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I think the long term question here is, do we have cases that can handle cards this long???

Luscious 11/11/2009 4:30 AM
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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.

hotsacoman 11/11/2009 4:40 AM
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Awesome! Now I can max out MW2 while matchmaking works its wonders lol.

Athreex 11/11/2009 4:59 AM
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jonpaul37 :
Wow, that card is as long as my... well, it's long.



LoL. Too bad I can't give you a 21th vote. :)

christop 11/11/2009 7:32 AM
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wonder how 2 of these would be in a rig. I get 200 fps.... or what? SUPER SWEET...


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