eta on 3870 x2?

[Darkusmanus]

more info here including a 3dmark06 run on a 30" display

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/09/3870-x2-spotted-wild

 

[willhub]

You rekon £150 and £7 postage for a Gainward GT 512mb capable of 700/1800/1000 will sell on the bay?

 

[jrodga2k5]

You rekon £150 and £7 postage for a Gainward GT 512mb capable of 700/1800/1000 will sell on the bay?

Yeah you should be good for that mate! To be honest guys I may just get a second 3870 cant see it being worth selling my current one and getting an x2! I'm thinking the cash made then spent wouldnt be efficient ;P Looks like I'm gonna go for 3870crossfire instead...or will I haha!

 

[willhub]

Yeah you should be good for that mate! To be honest guys I may just get a second 3870 cant see it being worth selling my current one and getting an x2! I'm thinking the cash made then spent wouldnt be efficient ;P Looks like I'm gonna go for 3870crossfire instead...or will I haha!

second one its all going to be the same as a 3870X2 .


What I'm gonna do is stick my GT up tonight I think and buy a cheapo graphics card, you know any SUPER cheapo graphics card capable of running GTA SA at highest settings?

 

[jrodga2k5]

Second one makes so much more sence but I am a sucker for new tech

 

[Gerard]

Some more pics:

at 2048x1536 this is how other cards scale (single core 3870 card included no dual though)

So the 9k plus for the x2 at high res is impressive.

Stock 3d mark x2 score

And thats on vista, so maybe tack an additional 1000-1500 on for xp.

 

[Final8y]

Yeah fingers crossed. However, I do remember sapphire's and gecube's attempts at this with the 1950 dual card and the x1650 dual card. They were using crossfire drivers for those cards and performance was severely impeded in instances where crossfire wasn't directly supported.

AMD may have done it slightly differently (and I hope your right) but I don't think it will. The best hope is that they are quicker with crossfire updates than in previous years

Matthew

You also have to take into account that sapphire & gacude cards were not official ati dual gpu cards so would not get any help with drivers so had the used the old crossfire method.

 

[kylew]

Has she not called the police yet.

*shifty eyes*

(ps I hope you aren't referring to me as "she" )

 

[Scougar]

You also have to take into account that sapphire & gacude cards were not official ati dual gpu cards so would not get any help with drivers so had the used the old crossfire method.

Of course. They have not made it clear at present (as an unreleased product) how it will be so once again... fingers in the air time

Matthew

 

[Nelly]

I want to see results @ 1900x1200 with AA/AF in terms of mininum & maximum FPS.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Well im a bit , they said they were not gona release it until the driver was ready, which was end of this month, but now they are saying the driver wont be this month, as they want to get it right, so what does that mean for the X2.

 

[willhub]

I want to see results @ 1900x1200 with AA/AF in terms of mininum & maximum FPS.

Wont be seeing much of that yet, I got me 8800GT saved as a draft on the bay untill I get some propor in game results but it looks good especially since it was apparently running cool in COD4 at the native res of a 30" monitor with AA.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

What i also don't get, is how everyone is saying its gona be using Crossfire, but surely that will be if you have 2x of these, as its only 1x PCB, its a single card, Crossfire is 2x cards, so 2x of these in Crossfire would be 4x GPU's

 

[stevenazari1]

What i also don't get, is how everyone is saying its gona be using Crossfire, but surely that will be if you have 2x of these, as its only 1x PCB, its a single card, Crossfire is 2x cards, so 2x of these in Crossfire would be 4x GPU's

that is correct. people just arent reading the whole story

I hate waiting for this. end of the month? its only the 9th today thats a lot of minutes at my desk checking this thread

 

[jaykay]

What i also don't get, is how everyone is saying its gona be using Crossfire, but surely that will be if you have 2x of these, as its only 1x PCB, its a single card, Crossfire is 2x cards, so 2x of these in Crossfire would be 4x GPU's

Crossfire X allows 4 cards now. Which is basically the same as 4 gpus.

Edit: in the vid he says its using internal crossfire to link the 2 cores together.

 

[jrodga2k5]

What i also don't get, is how everyone is saying its gona be using Crossfire, but surely that will be if you have 2x of these, as its only 1x PCB, its a single card, Crossfire is 2x cards, so 2x of these in Crossfire would be 4x GPU's

Loadsa, people are thinking up the worst case scenario here with a view towards the technology I however remain upbeat that there wont be a big crossfire need until they crossfire 2 of the X2's! I bet you only need a 16x pci slot to run this card and not a crossfire compatible motherboard! NVidia need Sli to run their multi-card (the whole point of sli/crossfire) solution whereas ATi are coming up with a solution of providing crossfire power on a single card solution! If I'm wrong about this one I'd be very surprised and the driver problem is related to crossfiring the X2 cards which is why they have only demo'd one of the cards in use!

 

[willhub]

The 3870X2 is using some sort of Crossfire, the guy in the AMD Secret Room on gamespot said so.

 

[jrodga2k5]

The 3870X2 is using some sort of Crossfire, the guy in the AMD Secret Room on gamespot said so.

IS that not just the chip on the card between the two cores? As it acts like crossfire would

 

[Ranger07]

Thats some pretty impressive results, im tempted to buy a pair of these for my Maximus Extreme and a big ass monitor.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Wonder if it will work better than normal crossfire for 2x cards then, gona be interesting, looks like a could be getting one of these and a big 30 incher, just wanna know the AA hit first.