ATi HD 3870 X2 (R680); Official Specifications & Images

This thread can do without the fanboy posturing and misinformation being thrown about!

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Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle

This thread can do without the fanboy posturing and misinformation being thrown about!

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NOt to mention the spam, trolling, or flamebait! :rofl: :clap: :ROTF: (sorry, I had to).

Anyway, if you were talking about me, sorry about that. I hate misinformation to. And for some it seems it takes a couple posts to get the right info in there. ;)

with a little over a month untill the romour'd release date has there been any reviews yet?

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

with a little over a month untill the romour'd release date has there been any reviews yet?

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Why ask, if you can be sure that someone will immediately post a link here! No news here means no news anywhere on the Net. ;)

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Originally Posted by Unbornchild

Why ask, if you can be sure that someone will immediately post a link here! No news here means no news anywhere on the Net. ;)

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more hope than anything :D

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CrossfireX quad driver expected in January

The Crossfire X driver is the great big hope for ATI's graphics future. There is a lot at stake with this driver. The success of R680, dual RV670 card hangs in the balance, as this driver has to be able to run two or even four RV670 core and give some satisfactory scores.

Nvidia just launched its three way SLI and in extreme situations this concept works well, so people would expect a lot from four RV670 cards or two R680 cards with two chip each.

The driver was and still is on schedule for mid to late January and we are sure that we will see the demonstration next week at CES, while the final one should be ready by the end of the month.

The driver launch is scheduled for Radeon 3870 X2 aka R680 launch and at this time that looks like a late January or first weeks of February. The cards work, we’ve seen them back in early November, it’s all about the driver now.

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regards

late jan / early feb :( i know it's only a month away but i want :D
anyone know about heat output?

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

late jan / early feb :( i know it's only a month away but i want :D
anyone know about heat output?

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nothing a Thermochill 120.3 can't handle! ;) Don't know if I'll be able to get 2 of those and a quad on the same Rad though. I'm guessing they'll be hot.

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Originally Posted by iadstudio

nothing a Thermochill 120.3 can't handle! ;) Don't know if I'll be able to get 2 of those and a quad on the same Rad though. I'm guessing they'll be hot.

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what about 2 * 3870x2 ;)

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

what about 2 * 3870x2 ;)

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What about 2 * PA120.3? :D

New pictures of the R680 have been posted on the Asian website PcPop.com. This card is from Unika, and they have customized the cooling. Also, the made the card a lot smaller, so it is comparable to a 8800GTX in length.

http://www.hardware.info/images/news/r680-unika1.jpg
http://www.hardware.info/images/news/r680-unika2.jpg
http://www.hardware.info/images/news/r680-unika.jpg

Source and more pics : http://www.pcpop.com/doc/App/261181/000689706.html

woot, not long to go then :D

[edit] looks like ati have got rid of that 6+8 pin rubbish and gone back to 6+6 :D :D :D [/edit]

All of them should be about as long as an 8800GTX :)

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

woot, not long to go then :D

[edit] looks like ati have got rid of that 6+8 pin rubbish and gone back to 6+6 :D :D :D [/edit]

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Only this manufacturer has got rid of it, not ATI. Standard 3870X2 will have it.

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Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR

Only this manufacturer has got rid of it, not ATI. Standard 3870X2 will have it.

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nuts :(

i wonder if it will still be ok with 6+6 tho?

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

nuts :(

i wonder if it will still be ok with 6+6 tho?

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should be :D

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Originally Posted by Fenom

New pictures of the R680 have been posted on the Asian website PcPop.com. This card is from Unika, and they have customized the cooling. Also, the made the card a lot smaller, so it is comparable to a 8800GTX in length.

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Source and more pics : http://www.pcpop.com/doc/App/261181/000689706.html

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That part about this manufacturer making the card shorter is not true though, this is the standard length of the R680.

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Originally Posted by Helmore

That part about this manufacturer making the card shorter is not true though, this is the standard length of the R680.

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Didn't know, the card looks a lot shorter as the one in the pics in the first post..
Anyway, the cooler looks a lot like the one used on the Peak HD3870

And i found the original newspost on Pcpop.com and translated it using google translate.

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Originally Posted by Pcpop.com translated by Google Translate

As AMD's new flagship, we see that this is not the HD3870 X2 version of the card, but by the manufacturers Shuangmin pathway offered by Promise high-end graphics, Shuangmin abandon the whole public review board cooling design, but chose to install two separate open-core radiator and thus better cooling effect:

NVIDIA and the 7950 GX2 different HD3870 X2 is not a pair of PCB design, and graphics length is not an exaggeration, and the size of its opponent's top graphics 8800GTX/Ultra is almost the same, so you need not worry about whether installed in the chassis of problems.

Dual fan can easily solve two core of 16 memory and a PCI-E chip heat control, and noise than the high-power version of the single turbofan lower, but shortcomings in the residue is still hot air chassis, the chassis This gamers to a higher cooling ventilation requirements.

Basically, it is fitting the two HD3870, independent power supply modules, needs two 6 Pin PCI-E power supply interface, occupying two PCI slots, as this high-end graphics card is not an exaggeration.

From this perspective, we can see clearly that R680 with a modern 0.8 ns GDDR4 memory, each core opposed to 512 MB 256Bit, the card is 1 GB 512Bit. In addition the center of the card is PCI-E controllers, two RV670 core through its link up to share data and exchange PCI-E 2.0 X16 interface.

Shuangmin Promise R680 graphics detailed parameters:

Core: RV670XT X 2 (double-HD3870)
Memory: 1024 M 0.8ns GDDR4
Frequency: 775 MHz/2250MHz
Stream Processor: 320 X 2
Power ports: 6 PIN X 2
Output ports: DVI X 2 + HDTV-OUT
Features: support DX10.1, integrated UVD HD decoder engine, support for PCI-E 2.0 bus, support HDMI output

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Is it me or do the ATI cards usually look better the Nvidias...

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Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown

nuts :(

i wonder if it will still be ok with 6+6 tho?

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Of course, just like the 2900XT. Maybe Overdrive will also be disabled if you don't use 6+8.

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Originally Posted by Dr.FuzzyBallz

Is it me or do the ATI cards usually look better the Nvidias...

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They do :D I mean, the reference ones. That Unika thing looks fugly.

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Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan

All of them should be about as long as an 8800GTX :)

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longcard!

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Originally Posted by Dr.FuzzyBallz

Is it me or do the ATI cards usually look better the Nvidias...

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Yeah they look a lot better. Love the Red colour.

hmm i wonder how many fps i can get in crysis with that cat

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Originally Posted by knightwolf654

hmm i wonder how many fps i can get in crysis with that cat

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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&postcount=31


but Crytek dont released yet ATI/AMD Multi-GPU (CF) Patch for Crysis , its delayed and they said will be released this month , lets see................

AMD/ATI also dont release yet the "real" catalyst Multi-Gpu (catalyst 8.1 with HD3870X2 support ) , should be released in the end of the month along with HD3870X2

so lets wait for HD3870X2 + Catalyst 8.1 + Crytek Crysis Patch for AMD/ATI Multi-GPU and then see whats the performance ..........

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i relly wold love to see this baby doing crysis on AA e AF at nicve resolutions.... 3dmark 2006 wold by fun to; but i still dont know if that dual fan heatskin is good enough for the heat(ar OC speed like 830 on the core's....) .....