3870 X2 spotted in the wild
Hunted and shot
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 11:57
ATI IS STAKING its high-end reputation on its upcoming 3870 X2 card, which has two R670 chips on a single board. Details have been scarce, but not only has one turned up in a system at CES, but it's been benchmarked too.
The card is absolutely huge-mongous, with two GPUs, two sets of memory, two power connectors and a bridging chip sat between them - not to mention the Crossfire connector sat on the top.
There's 1GB of memory on board, and the GPUs are currently running at 770/2250MHz.
The folks at Hot Hardware have pics of the card from the show floor here, whilst the stripped naked pics and benchmarks are over here at OC Workbench. Tasty. µ
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ATI where? You guys means AMD?
Very nice scoring for x2 but i'm still sad... they only made a pciex bridge that is capable of 8x speed, sure... it's pciex 2.0...but it's 8x.does it have enough bandwith througput to deliver the power it really have? Dunno
even PCI-E 1.0 spec would most lieky not get saturated in 16x/8x bridge mode

PCI-E 2.0 has 2x more bandwith then 1.0 spec so 2.0 is getting 16x type of speeds per chip in that 3870 2x mode