You're really trying to compare a $5,000 computer with the power of a $500 PS3 or $400 XBOX360? Cmon man, of course the PC would be more powerful, but you gotta admit the PS3's potential is pretty sweet. 

On to the article... I'm really looking forward to this card, I heard its gonna be around $500 which is a great deal considering its supposed to blow the the other stuff away. And having two of these bad boys is gonna be incredible.

I still remember my original ATI Xpert 128 with 16mb memory and i was playing one of the Original betas of Counter-Strike and i thought things couldnt get any better than that.but then we get the promise of.Quad GPU gaming? Core Clocks of almost 800mhz? memory clock speeds over 2ghz GDDR4? The future of True HD Gaming is upon us- we should rejoice and throw Crysis Lan Parties my friends- tis a good time to be a PC Gamer- sucks for those with console-itis- console fanboys still truly* believing that the hardware in those silly toys surpass that of a true HD gaming Monster.Even a ridiculously high end gaming rig will not sway the opinion of a hardcore console fanboy..lets compare shall we? Just try to put an Xbox360 in the same ring a high end gaming pc. 
Intels Quad Core QX9650, Quad 3870's, 4GB DDR800 (pc6400), Quad 10,000rpm 150GB Raptor-X hard drives, High Fidelity Dolby Digital Surround Sound from a Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum with Klipsch Pro-Media 5.1 THX Certified Speakers Paired with Dual Apple 30" Cinema displays (i hate to refer to macs but they make a damn good monitor)

why buy 2 cards when all you would really need is just one card to run crossfire. why waste the money when all you are going to do is game. there are other more important things this card can do in other professions to really make a difference.
( besides one card would really be a better bargan than 2.)

gddr5 is being released in this time frame, watch out!

Let's not forget about the Distributed Computing enthusiast niche, here. There are science and math projects out there where these cards will leave dedicated cpus in the dust. For those of you who don't know, there's a project called Folding@Home that uses volunteers PlayStation 3s to crunch their protein models. There are people out there who are buying PS3s specifically to increase their processing scores in that project.

Protein models just scratch the surface, how about drug studies, weather research, number factoring, as well as real-time 3D animation.

Kaizer, are you the guy who writes fortunes for chinese cookies? I swear I had one just like that.
On topic, Crossfire and SLI are as much a stopgap as multiple CPUs are (note, not cores, but CPUs.) The world isn't that complicated, and the multi-core GPUs will come much as the Core2 and X2's delivered. For some reason, the GPU industry has a better blanket to hide under, it seems.

dear god. 8-16gpus. 2 is a useless waste of money. think of the memory overhead. they need to make like CPU's and learn to share cache/memory. without so much duplicate textures etc, suddenly multiGPU stuff might not suck.

I would not call any of this bright.
anyone considered the energy consumption of these silly rigs?
This is not forward thinking going on here.

"An eight to-16GPU setup is a possibility for both ATI and Nvidia, but don't think about games here. Think about medical imaging, videowalls and so on)."

was exactly the quote I latched onto. I believe CAVE was "invented" at MIT though the following was the only relevant link I could find at the moment.

http://cave.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

Granted, medical imaging and other vastly more humanitarian, military and other uses exist for a "videowall" -- CAVE is such a better term -- though gaming would be WAY cool! [or hot, depending on how soon GDDR4 can be integrated].

Excellent article pointing out scalability.




Does anyone knows if two of these X2's wil work in crossfire on a s775 X38 mainboard?
(Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6)

Inquirer headline seen in late 2008/2009...
"AMD Fusion preview: Requires actual Fusion reactor for power"
:)

The fact these cards only have one external crossfire connector means they can be used at most in a pair. Unlike the 1-chip cards that can be chained for as many PCIe slots as you have (drivers permitting). I guess this is also to stop people trying to put 4 two-chip cards in a system and wondering why 8 way isn't supported.

Also note the topology of this is always linear, which means the scaling for 8 (and possibly 4) GPUs might suck.

You say R700 is coming along interestingly or something, but you don't say anything about it? Care to share?

"An eight to-16GPU setup is a possibility for both ATI and Nvidia, but don't think about games here. Think about medical imaging, videowalls and so on)."

Hello? Videowall-gaming, anyone?!

I'm glad that y'all aren't paid to be photographers...

A new era is just starting and a bright future is up ahead.

lol not sure why you just took photos of the screen but i recomend alt+print screen :)