No-one knows what the X2 will be like and a shared memory pool has not been confirmed by anything/anyone. So it remains to be seen what 48x0 X2 will be like.
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ATI 770 marketing site goes live, inq article..
Here it is: http://www.radeon-graphics.net/
It confirms the 1 TeraFLOP and as the inquirer said: that "933 must sting" for NVIDIA. As the GTX280 is supposed to reach 933 GigaFLOPs.
P.S. Those guys from the inquirer are sometimes to stupid to be true, check this: "The smaller brother, aka low-yield, salvage part, the GTX260 is basically the same chips with 192 SPs and 896M GDDR3. If you are maths-impaired, let me point out that this equates to 24 ROPs."
It should be 28 ROPs for the GTX260 and they are talking about others being math-impaired :p:.
the site's down already :(
And I pointed that out a long time ago (the maths impaired thing)
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-06...I_GTX280_m.png
Now if 4850 CFX scales nearly as well, 4x 4850 will barely miss 3way GTX280 performance, obviously in vantage, while costing about half the price of TriSLI.
I really wish I could share the remaining slides, but I've been told not to. My source is worth too much to me to share these.
Maybe I can try and shed some light on things in another way. I guess that if my word isn't good enough, W1zzard's is. He said from an early point that there would be 160 shader clusters. RV670 has 64 shader cluster. Each RV670 shader cluster is 4+1 (5D). It makes little to no sense for AMD to change the cluster design to 2+1 (3D), which would then result in only 480 shaders. There has never been any talk about 96 clusters, other than speculations.
My Asian sources has claimed 800 SPs from the very start, but they are off a bit too often for me to believe them without doubt. Especially when western sources close to AMD report 480SPs. Later I find out that AMD has planted a number of rumors, including 480SPs to create a smoke curtain, and that it wanted to surprise both buyers and especially NVIDIA by launching a card with 800SPs.
GPU-Z is not proof of anything. It's just a database with information and if the database is outdated, the information displayed by the program will be wrong. Kudos to W1zzard for creating it though, it's a great tool. It's just not 100% reliable for cards that haven't been launched.
I've posted slides, Asian websites have posted different slides from AMD presentations that all show 800SPs, the only contradictory stories I see are the ones using GPU-Z as a source of information, which is just misleading.
EDIT:
Can anyone show me a slide with any information about the number of shaders beside the one I and the Asian sites have posted that say 800SPs?
//Andreas
@andreas
fcry64 posted this but no one commented, I guess people didn't like what they say
this shows it having 480 stream, but it could just be a mistake and there's no guarantee that's legit since there's no picture yet to confirm it (at least with the 2900xt I'm pretty sure they flaunted their "320" shaders)
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-4850PE...253657&sr=1-59
Yup, I got X48 for the same reason! Previously had P35 which would suck for crossfire.
P45 is great for CPU overclocking, but only dual X8 lanes for crossfire ... not good for dual 4870X2s.
There is of course X58, which would require a new CPU as well, and is not out yet, and also likely require new RAM.
R700= 4870X2
RV770XT= 4870
RV770Pro= 4850
Come to think of it, I'm not sure what they will call the 4850X2...
hmmm...
since I have x48 now maybe its time to go back to AMD and get dual 4870x2 instead of one 280gtx.
can anyone comment on how crossfire has evolved? My last crossfire rig was two x1900xt. There were problems with that setup that sometimes created glitches in certain games or no increase in performance.
Is crossfire working better now? Will it work in all games or only for benching?
Is it buggy? Do you still need one of those external dongle things to attch the cards together?
if those benchs are real then HD4870 Vs HD4850 :
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5482/hd400vshu4.jpg
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X1900... isn't that when you needed a "master" CF card? No, you don't need that anymore, nor do you need an external dongle. The cards are connected by a ribbon cable on top of them, like SLI is. CF performance scaling has greatly increased, as has game support.
I don't know how that site benched the cards when it can't even get the default clocks for the 4850 correct
Im hoping for these cards to do well, i just got myself a P45 and wouldnt mind doing crossfire for once, since most games run fine on my 9800GTX and if the 4870 beats it, then i should have no problem running all games at good frame rates.
For what reason? Need a better heating element (radiator) in your room? Better multi-monitor support? I have a feeling they won't be working along with any of these 48x0s in CFX....the performance difference between the 38x0 and 48x0 is just to big to do that.
I was waiting for this picture to make the initial post to look great.
http://dpweqa.blu.livefilestore.com/...5r1wU/4000.JPG
http://www.unleashonetera.com/
Enjoy,
Metroid.
Looks like PowerColor jumped the gun and sold the 4850 in Hong Kong:
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=432522
15194 w/ QX9650 at 4GHz in 3dMark06 default
Not bad methinks