The R680 designates, in reality, the Radeon HD 3870 X2, which is based on two RV670 GPUs. As we've seen, the history of multi GPU cards is pretty diverse and if this HD 3870 X2 represents a departure from the concepts behind the Voodoo 5500 (the VSA 100 having been conceived to be grouped at least in twos, from the beginning, to produce an efficient card), its goal is reminiscent of the Rage Fury MAXX in 1999; to offer a product to place in front of the high end models of its Californian competitor.
AMD has decided to integrate two RV670s on the same PCB (for more information on the chip refer to the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 review). This is, without a doubt, to allow the installation of a imposing cooling system and to facilitate the interconnections between the two graphical sub systems. The result is a monster of 26.7 cm in length (longer than the width of a motherboard). This value is identical to what we have on a GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra, which holds only one chip.
System Configuration Used:
- Test Setup
- Power Supply: Coolermaster RealPower Pro 850W
- Motherboard: Asus P5E3 Deluxe (X38)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (Quad-core 3 GHz)
- Video: ATI Radeon HD3870X2, ATI Radeon HD3870, ATI Radeon HD2900XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, ATI Radeon HD3870 Crossfire
- Memory: Crucial 2 x 1 GB DDR3 1333 MHz 9-9-9
Software Configuration - Video Driver: ATI Catalyst 8.1 beta (8-451-2-080108a), NVIDIA ForceWare 169.28 beta
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Supreme Commander
- Age of Empires 3
- Oblivion
- STALKER
- World in Conflict
- Unreal Tournament 3
- Crysis
- Call of Duty 4
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tom's server disallows linking to images, they need to change it to link to the pages instead.
tom's server disallows linking to images, they need to change it to link to the pages instead.
Weird, on my PC it works (maybe because i have seen the pages already (?))
Link modified to Toms Hardware Home Page.
Sort of answered your own question there, but thanks for showing your colors. We were all dying to know what they were.
Sort of answered your own question there, but thanks for showing your colors. We were all dying to know what they were.
I think the question posed Eis, was rhetorical. Ergo, he knew the answer.
But it's not that hot if you look on HardOCP.
So.... Who is doing it the right way?
I'm back aboard the ATI wagon these days. Maybe they're not doing so well vs. Nvidia, but it wasn't long ago when Nvidia was in the same boat. Version 8.1 of their drivers (with the hotfix ) has fixed the problem us AGP users have been having for a while now, and my HD 2600PRO that came in this morning rocks!
I was all set and ready to jump on an Intel computer with an Nvidia 88XX card, but my girlfriend's computer I bought her is just outstanding, even with a 7600GT. (Spinning around in Oblivion with 0 lag is awesome) I dunno. When I sit here and read the forums, it's very easy to get all psyched up for high-end stuff. However, when I look at my bank account, it's quite the opposite reaction.
Both AMD and Intel are good, just as ATI and Nvidia. It's all a matter of how much you want to spend and if that cost justifies the performance gain is all.
I am glad now to see that ATI didn't walk on that same road and instead brought something new to the market with the first multicore VGA card
I wish 3dfx was still alive to see some more competition in the market
I am glad now to see that ATI didn't walk on that same road...
I remember the time when ATI tried to cheat on Quake III results just to beat nVidia in their GeForce scores.
I am glad now to see that ATI didn't walk that road alone...
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