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

[Qhs]

Does anyone know if the production 3870 X2's will use solid caps? There's a few pics of pre-production models with tall electrolyte caps...

Well the reference ATI ones that they showed @ CES08 had solid capacitors. The non-reference one that was posted a few pages back did have liquid filled capacitors. I think it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

[Origin_Unknown]

[edit] meh, nevermind [/edit]

[Origin_Unknown]

Well the reference ATI ones that they showed @ CES08 had solid capacitors. The non-reference one that was posted a few pages back did have liquid filled capacitors. I think it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

pic of the one at CES?

[Qhs]

pic of the one at CES?

Well I was just assuming from what was visible. The stock cooler was still on, but there are some visible solid capacitors (circled). Just assumptions from what I see.

[Origin_Unknown]

just have to wait and see ... only 2-ish weeks till lift off

[Qhs]

just have to wait and see ... only 2-ish weeks till lift off

Almost there...

[Origin_Unknown]

Almost there...

yeah, and i wish for two of them, hopefully around the £250 mark

[YukonTrooper]

yeah, and i wish for two of them, hopefully around the £250 mark

I don't even want to know what the prices are going to be in UK/Europe. I feel for yah man!

[cool_case]

yeah, and i wish for two of them, hopefully around the £250 mark

Two for me too, but hope it's a little lower than that in the US, like around $425 - $450.

[Qhs]

I have no monies. T.T

[jinu117]

Kind of funny how I was driving with few at back of my trunk during CES time.
So these cards are better than what is available on nvidia for time being? (No fanboyism comment please, these market always flips up around anyways)

[Shintai]

Kind of funny how I was driving with few at back of my trunk during CES time.
So these cards are better than what is available on nvidia for time being? (No fanboyism comment please, these market always flips up around anyways)

That depends how you see it. With 1 card? Maybe, sure!

But you could just aswell have 2 HD3870 or 8800GT cards. Because this card also comes with all the CF issues like any GX2 would inherit SLI issues.

Its amazing neither nVidia or AMD can even have a working multimonitor solution yet or complete game support. It just show how half baked CF/SLI is and will always be.

So I wouldnt say its better. Its perhaps just a cheaper CF solution from the start.

[naokaji]

yeah, and i wish for two of them, hopefully around the £250 mark

would be nice... but i fear it will be closer to 300£ seeing how single 3870's go for 150£ and up.

[YukonTrooper]

I really can't wait for this card now. Anybody have a time machine?

[cool_case]

would be nice... but i fear it will be closer to 300£ seeing how single 3870's go for 150£ and up.

That wouldn't be so bad - about £225 or $445.

[Atal]

That wouldn't be so bad - about £225 or $445.

usually prices on launch go from msrp to a higher price right?? so....$445 dlls would be very good to start, we just had to wait for drivers....don't expect perfect drivers at launch

[Eastcoasthandle]

R680 scores 12056 with a x9650 (3.6X) at 2560x1600 with bios dated 1/14/08
OLD




CURRENT


Impressive if accurate!

What I also find interesting/puzzling is that it scores higher in sm2.0 then sm3.0. A nice boost from a Q6600 giving 9573 3dMarks. If both scores were using a R680 at stock speeds.
Comparison Charts using 2560 and 1920

[realsmasher]

1279 mb ?
hypermemory ?
wtf ?

[zerazax]

Impressive scores w/ the QX9650... two of these should break 30k easy

[mascaras]

1279 mb ?
hypermemory ?
wtf ?

yep , strange :

Memory Size : 1279MB
Memory Type : HyperMemory




R680 (HD3870X2)



(Bios date also from yesterday (2008/01/14) )




RV670 (HD3870)

















btw:

no confirmation yet if HD3870X2 in games will act like single card or if the games need to be CF compatible (like 2x HD3870 CF) ??






regards

[STaRGaZeR]

Weird scores, SM2.0 higher than 3.0?

I will trust it for now...

[Eastcoasthandle]

HyperMemory

...ATI’s innovative technology that enables a reduction in the amount of on-board memory on a graphics card without compromising its overall performance.

Its advanced memory management technology makes more efficient use of all the available memory in computers with PCI Express...Graphics applications can share system memory and use fast on-board memory for real-time processing between the graphics card and the computer’s memory...

Larger, modern computer displays require increased graphics performance to look their best. Products with HyperMemory improve overall system performance and image quality, especially in larger monitors.

...is available in select...desktop graphics processors,...notebook graphics processors and...motherboard chipsets and may be enabled on certain ATI and ATI Partner products.

[StimulatedBoy]

That depends how you see it. With 1 card? Maybe, sure!

But you could just aswell have 2 HD3870 or 8800GT cards. Because this card also comes with all the CF issues like any GX2 would inherit SLI issues.

Its amazing neither nVidia or AMD can even have a working multimonitor solution yet or complete game support. It just show how half baked CF/SLI is and will always be.

So I wouldnt say its better. Its perhaps just a cheaper CF solution from the start.

From what we have seen so far, it seems that one 3870 X2 is about to be as powerful (or lack of thereof depending on whether you are an Nvidia fanboy or not) as two 3870 in Crossfire. Results indicate approx. 90% of 3870 in CF or thereabout, which seems quite good given my previous experience.

Whether or not the 3870 X2 comes with the inherit SLI/CF related problems seems somewhat unclear yet and is still debated at various sites right now. Maybe our own Guru Mascaras can clear this out for us? Previous solutions from Nvidia, like the 7900 GX2 / 7950 GX2, did not have this syndrome as a “single card” solution but when connected to a second “single card” (as in Quad Sli) all hell was loose. Guess that we will know very shortly...

With regard to multimonitor solution from ATI, it seems like this will be supported with driver release 8.1 as it seems to be supported in the leaked 8.1 betas. Some fellow clanmembers that have installed the beta 8.1 driver are ecstatic over the solution provided but I guess it still remains to be seen for those of us those awaiting the final release. High hopes though. With the ty wheater around around here these days, one cannot do anything but hope for some good tech news...

Rob

[Unbornchild]

HyperMemory

That's been there since ATI's first drivers for Vista, in RC2 i first noticed that..

[Face]

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35629/118/

AMD moving up launch of dual-GPU graphics card

Sunnyvale (CA) – Industry sources are telling us that AMD will be releasing its dual-processor R680 graphics card one week early. The NDA on all the technical specs was due to lift on January 28th, but our source tells us this has been moved up to the 23rd. We’ve yet to get a confirmation from anyone at AMD.