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4870 X2 reviewed

ten80p said:
True but it'll prob only have slightly higher clocks and require less power, don't think it will be significantly faster but it'll prob be min £330 at launch and any existing stock of older GTX cards will prob stay same price
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I sincerely doubt that, the 280 cards are falling in price because of increasing yields, and the 280+ or whatever will be a lot cheaper for them to produce, and it will completely replace the 280 range. After a while it should be cheaper, cooler and faster than the current 280. Not by much but i would definitely wait.
 
Talrinys said:
I sincerely doubt that, the 280 cards are falling in price because of increasing yields, and the 280+ or whatever will be a lot cheaper for them to produce, and it will completely replace the 280 range. After a while it should be cheaper, cooler and faster than the current 280. Not by much but i would definitely wait.
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How do you know they wont do what they did with the g92? clock them higher but with reduced specs?
 
Scougar said:
Not really. I mean it can only show it's potential at 2560 because below 2560 it's bottlenecked by the CPU, most likely due to the crossfire overhead. Hence, "it's comes into it's own at 2560"...i.e. it starts to show it's real colours.
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Fair enough but please stop with the apostrophes in "it's". You obviously missed my reference to it the first time around and just did it three more times! :( :p :D[/QUOTE]
 
I'll join your campaign. :)

Can I request that people stop using brought instead of bought ? :p[/QUOTE]

Glad you brought that up!:D

Ps My quoting never works lol
 
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Talrinys, the 280 prices are not falling because of higher yeilds, its because ati have released new cards at good prices and nvidia cannot now continue to rip people of with over inflated prices anymore.
 
Gerard said:
Because the 9800 x800 x1800 x1900 3870 series were all bad? :confused:
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To be fair the X800 and X1800 and 3870 whernt that great

9800 was incredible and X1900 was pretty good

(maybe recollection is wrong but I seem to remember X1800 being too expensive and X1900 series being not that much different but die shrinked and cheaper?)

There was also the issue of X1800 (i think?) only being available to buy for a month or so before the X1900 came out or something like that

4870 though is as good as the 9800 imo
 
The_Abyss said:
The X1800 series was poo.

Slow memory, hot, loud and very quickly replaced by the X1900 series.
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x1900 also ran hot and had a loud cooler. Mine ran upto around 96c with the stock cooler even after reapplying the thermal compound. Main thing the x1900 had over the x1800 was more shaders, not sure if the memory was that much different.
 
Think this quote from the conclusion of that review shows just how cpu bottlenecked this card was in a lot of the reviews that have been done.

Before we finish off, though, let’s have a quick look at some of the results we obtained out of the Smooth Creation 3.9GHz system against our 3GHz testbed.

With the HD 4870 X2, we saw our Vantage performance score move up from 12496 to 14996.

Talking real world, World in Conflict performance is way up. 2560 x 1600 yields a minimum of 24 FPS and an average of 46 FPS on our 3.0GHz testbed. On the heavily overclocked Smooth Creations system, we saw the minimum move to a very important 32 FPS and the average sky rocket to an impressive 62 FPS.

This gives you a real idea of just how CPU bottle necked these cards are.
 
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