AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 ready by August

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 ready by August

Daniel Fleshbourne on 03 July 2008 - 13:14 · 9 comments & 6578 views

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Following the recent launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 GPUs, AMD plans to introduce the high-end dual-GPU HD 4870 X2 by the end of July, according to sources at graphics card vendors.

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.

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#1 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...

#2 theyarecomingforyou on 03 Jul 2008 - 15:09

Finally a card that could get me to upgrade from my 8800GT.

(2 replies) #3 tsupersonic on 03 Jul 2008 - 16:43

2GB of GDDR5? Damn that's more memory than my system memory

Hopefully this card delivers

#3.1 RAID 0 on 03 Jul 2008 - 17:04

Don't forget it's also FASTER! GDDR5???? OY!

#3.2 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

#4 Beastage on 03 Jul 2008 - 18:21

2gigs of GDDR5?!

I hope they make a 1gb GDDR5 version... 2gb is just waste of cash

#5 Airlink on 03 Jul 2008 - 23:25

Who the hell needs 2GB of VRAM?

#6 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.

#7 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.

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