XFX 5970 4GB EF 6 Black Limited Edition

[straxusii]

http://translate.google.com/transla...ordichardware.se/nyhet,17657.html&sl=sv&tl=en

The longest card ever . . .

What a crazy box it comes in

2 8 pin power connectors so up to 375W, no pcie2 cert for that bad boy

 

[Flanno]

Sapphire are bringing out one too with an arctic cooler tripple fan on it.

I'd expect these will be 1k euro or so.

 

[Robes]

Crossfire anyone!?

 

[Flanno]

Is quadfire still gimped though ? Is 3 x 5870's still faster than 2 x 5970's. If not, I'd consider 2 of these cards (maybe).

 

[twist3d0n3]

wow, looks pretty good, but screw paying however much they want for it!

 

[Robes]

Is quadfire still gimped though ? Is 3 x 5870's still faster than 2 x 5970's. If not, I'd consider 2 of these cards (maybe).

I expect so, we've only had 3 driver updates since the cards were released.....

 

[Flanno]

From what I can see on my mates system quadfire does stutter now and again and seems to have lower minimum framerates compared to even standard crossfire.

 

[bhavv]

So no international / cross border shipping on this one =D

 

[gareth170]

why do they say 4GB when its really 2GB usage..

 

[Flanno]

The same reason they advertise the normal 5970 as 2GB. Because it has 2GB even though only 1GB is usuable. Marketing guff.

Are these 4GB cards going to be available in Europe ?

 

[straxusii]

$1000 a pop

 

[Broken Hope]

why do they say 4GB when its really 2GB usage..

Because there is 4GB of RAM on the card? Just because it's 2GB per GPU doesn't change that fact.

 

[James J]

Because there is 4GB of RAM on the card? Just because it's 2GB per GPU doesn't change that fact.

Hes got a point actually as its the same textures being stored on both cards when playing the game so 2gb of texture space, not 4gb