While AMD Tanks, ATI Shines
01.09.08 - 09:41pm
In December of 2007 I spoke softly of ATI releasing a dual-GPU, single PCB card. I have seen engineering samples and blank PCBs since December however, these are the first actual card pictures that I’ve seen. AMD’s HD3870 has been a great hit with consumers and if one of a good thing is decent, two should be great, correct? Following this logic, this new card, code-named R680, features twin RV670 GPUs on a single full-length PCB and a stretched HD3870 cooler. Featuring 640 combined stream processors, two 256bit memory buses, and possible 2×512MB and 2×1024MB memory configurations, R680 looks to be very promising. It’s safe to say these will be upper echelon cards with a price around $400 to $450, which makes sense as two HD3870’s would set you back $480. Now the question is, how will Nvidia respond. Rumor has it that the 9800GTX will be plain sick but we’ll have to see how it compares to a single HD3870×2 or even better, an HD3870×2 coupled with a plain HD3870 in tri-fire.
Source: [H] Forum and XtremeSystems Forum
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