AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 ready by August
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 03 July 2008 - 13:14 · 9 comments & 4128 views
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#1 Posted by TruckWEB on 03 Jul 2008 - 13:29
- With a suggested price of $499, this is going to beat in performance and price the new nVidia 280....
nVidia will have to be out with the 280 X2 very quick at a nice price...
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#2 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 03 Jul 2008 - 15:09
- Finally a card that could get me to upgrade from my 8800GT.
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#3 Posted by tsupersonic on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:43
- 2GB of GDDR5? Damn that's more memory than my system memory
Hopefully this card delivers -
#3.2 Posted by Skynetfuture on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:36
- (tsupersonic said @ #3)2GB of GDDR5? Damn that's more memory than my system memory
Hopefully this card delivers
owned !
for a reminder some of us have 4 and even 8gb ram
e-pen FTW
4870X2 is a winner for me i am impressed
and there is no way that nvidia to make 280 X2
even if they did it it will be DIA ! with the current nvidia huge chip arch
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#4 Posted by +Beastage on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:21
- 2gigs of GDDR5?!
I hope they make a 1gb GDDR5 version... 2gb is just waste of cash
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#6 Posted by TruckWEB on 04 Jul 2008 - 01:34
- Don't forget it's not shared memory. Like the high-end 4870 card that have 1Gb of RAM, the X2 will have 1Gb for each GPU.
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#7 Posted by +Anaron on 04 Jul 2008 - 05:02
- Wow, ATi is on a roll. The HD 4870 X2 will cost less than the GTX 280 and perform better than it. There's nothing NVIDIA can do about it. If they were to release a GTX 280 GX2, it would cost $800+ at minimum.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - $649
ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2 - $499
Keep in mind that the 4870 X2 boasts 2GB of GDDR5 memory whereas the GTX 280 only has 1GB of GDDR3 memory.
Evaluation samples are schedule to be available in mid-July, and AMD will begin shipping reference design boards with 2GB GDDR5 memory at the end of the month, the sources detailed.