Back in August Neowin reported that ATI were expected to release the 4850X2 “shortly”...Now finally ATI has said that the 4850X2 should hit the shelves of your favourite component supplier within weeks. The 4850X2 is the smaller cousin of the 4870X2 and like its bigger sibling will feature 2 4850 chips on a single PCB, with each core having access to 1GB of GDDR3 memory.
4850X2 designs have now “validated” by graphics cards makers, said Sasha Marinkovic, senior product marketing manager at AMD’s graphics products group at a news-conference on Thursday.
The new 4850X2 is expected to retail in the region of $350-$399 according to ATI.
It is expected to go head-to-head with Nvidia’s monolithic single core design Gefore GTX 280 which currently retails in the $499 price range.
It’s predicted that the 4850X2 will match and in many cases surpass its Nvidia counterpart. But fundamentally it still suffers from the problem of all dual-chip designs; driver profiles are needed to be able to use both cores in games. If the game is not supported then the 4850X2 will only use a single core.
i can predict a price cut for 280 GTX because of this
The about quote is the reason, how many games actually properly support dual GPU solutions? not many I wager. Till they do, I doubt Nvidia ever battered an eyelid about this card.
EDIT: I know it said drivers, but that is only half the story, as the game still needs to support using both GPUs too.
The about quote is the reason, how many games actually properly support dual GPU solutions? not many I wager. Till they do, I doubt Nvidia ever battered an eyelid about this card.
EDIT: I know it said drivers, but that is only half the story, as the game still needs to support using both GPUs too.
yeap
just if ATI or nvidia
managed to make GX2/X2 dual cores act as one core(working as one ) in the hardware level
you can guarante graphic card multicores module to be famous / mainsteam
The about quote is the reason, how many games actually properly support dual GPU solutions? not many I wager. Till they do, I doubt Nvidia ever battered an eyelid about this card.
EDIT: I know it said drivers, but that is only half the story, as the game still needs to support using both GPUs too.
It doesn't need to. Go and read benchmark of 4870x2 and previews x2 cards. Maybe then you'll know what you're talking about.
Unfortunately graphics architectures aren't designed that way.
Last edited by GOJI_GKing2000 on 17 Oct 2008 - 20:19
This is gonna be faster than a 4870. This card is gonna be right under the 4870X2. I'm soo getting this when it's out if budget allows
And games don't have to support multiple GPUs as long as the driver profile is set up right, games don't need to be aware. Sure, it's nice when games are optimized for such behavior, but it isn't a necessity.
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