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

[RedBull78]

China

Just be carefull what you put in your mouth overthere or you'll turn into a lizard.

[Origin_Unknown]

I "heard" that :


GDDR3

Temp idle = 57º (fan auto)

CCC dont have Crossfire option and GPU-Z detects CF disable

regards

does that mean it thinks its on GPU?

[mascaras]

does that mean it thinks its on GPU?

yep , but thats normal because the CF its internal


but in Games i think CF support its still required .............. at least looking At This tests @ 1680x1050 @ Bioshock max fps = 75 Fps (i dont think its 2 Gpus result)



btw:

As you know, on the board ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is two graphics processor. According to the information available at the reference motherboard ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 will be installed 1 GB of memory GDDR3, which operates at a frequency of 2 GHz processors and related 256 - bit tyres. The product is meant for connecting to the bus PCI Express 2.0, which interact with the responsibility of the special chip-bridge. The truth seems to be in this role will not be used PEX6347 ,as expected but PEX8548. At the given scheme, the bridge is at the centre of charges between the two processors. Near each processor can be found on four chip memory.

The following illustration shows that the transition from PCI Express 1.1 for PCI Express 2.0 provides a noticeable increase in productivity - around 20-30%, depending on the application and the screen resolution.

regards

[CLPDJ]

I "heard" that :


GDDR3

Temp idle = 57º (fan auto)

CCC dont have Crossfire option and GPU-Z detects CF disable

regards

Wow. Maybe we can have some real info on Wednesday. Who knows.

that's the real it can get.... it still will performe like 2 3870 in CF and it will have "problems" on "non CF frendly games".... but it will be good for mobos singles pciex16 and it will be good for cross-fire (4xgpu) but it all will depende on drivers suport.... ATI HELP US WITH GOOD DRIVERS.... DAMMIT

[MuffinFlavored]

I "heard" that :


GDDR3

Temp idle = 57º (fan auto)

CCC dont have Crossfire option and GPU-Z detects CF disable

regards

If I am not mistaken, GPU-Z reads the drivers/reads the BIOS/contains a collection of video cards and their information.

Very nice to see though.

[YukonTrooper]

Wow, so PCI-e 2.0 will show improvements sooner than people expected. I was about to buy a P35. This might change my decision.

[LordEC911]

VR-Zone already found/got a review up.
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=228355

[YukonTrooper]

Difference in games is like 12,6% and if you calculate games+3dMark performance 14,9%. With 30W bigger powerconsumption than 8800 Ultra.

Expreview's review had this test and rig with HD3870 X2 had 334W powerconsumption and same rig with 8800 Ultra had 303W[/url]

Meh. 30W extra power consumption for an average of 12.6% real life performance gain.

Let's hope for some driver improvements and some better reviews.

ATI just took your crown Nvidia (barely). Time to get pissed and show us what ya got.

[AbelJemka]

Meh. 30W extra power consumption for an average of 12.6% real life performance gain.

Let's hope for some driver improvements and some better reviews.

ATI just took your crown Nvidia (barely). Time to get pissed and show us what ya got.

If you calculate it correctly, t's 10% more juice for 12.6% more real life performance
Please compare percetage with percentage, if not you can mean bull with numbers

[realsmasher]

and dont forget the much lower idle-consumption.

3870x2 is pretty much same as single 3870 in idle as you can turn off 1 core.

[YukonTrooper]

If you calculate it correctly, t's 10% more juice for 12.6% more real life performance
Please compare percetage with percentage, if not you can mean bull with numbers

It just seems more relevant to point out the wattage. I could of mentioned percent but there was only one variable. With the performance increase there were multiple variables averaged. Plus I was just quoting the guy from VR-Zone.

At any rate, 12% increase is poop. I don't care what anyone says. Hopefully the review is wrong or something...

[Astennu]

First Review online:







http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graph...1/1210234.html

Cant wait to see the HD3870 CF VS HD3870 X2 results. And compared to 8800 GT in SLi mode. The tested board has 1ns Sansung memory. Way better then that crappy Qimonda memory on the 8800 GT and GTS cards.

[Qhs]

No one else notice this? (repost maybe?)

AMD HD 3870 X2 launch now Jan 28

http://www.techpowerup.com/?50385
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8837/index.html

[Pisu87]

This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate

[Shintai]

and dont forget the much lower idle-consumption.

3870x2 is pretty much same as single 3870 in idle as you can turn off 1 core.

Are you sure you can turn off one core?

[Nedjo]

This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate

wow this looks awesome! Zalman-alike cooler with four DVI's and ordinary 6-pin plugins for power... if it's stock OC'ed, this has become my favorite 3870 X2...

BTW
it's a shame that they didn't call it 3890... this X2 doesn't fit in in the policy of removing XT, XTX, XL... suffiXes!

[Zytek_Fan]

Are you sure you can turn off one core?

If it does, it's probably automatic due to ATi's power management software.

[Zytek_Fan]

No one else notice this? (repost maybe?)

AMD HD 3870 X2 launch now Jan 28

http://www.techpowerup.com/?50385
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8837/index.html

Yep.
NDA ends Wednesday, so reviews will go live then

[STaRGaZeR]

and dont forget the much lower idle-consumption.

3870x2 is pretty much same as single 3870 in idle as you can turn off 1 core.

Uhmm where have you read that you can disable one core? Because I think you can't.

[Origin_Unknown]

This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate

looks awesome -thanks for the post

[Soulburner]

This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate

Awesome, its been 3 years since I bought a card that dumped its hot air into my case. I can't wait to go back to that ancient design!

[Zytek_Fan]

Awesome, its been 3 years since I bought a card that dumped its hot air into my case. I can't wait to go back to that ancient design!

Yeah. No BS there.

[mascaras]

This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate

love it , and the PCB seems different too !!

any clues about Clocks and Ram???


btw:

ATI pushed the date back to the 28th. The reason why going around is so the card can launch with its new driver that has fixes and performance increases. Its possible it might be the quad crossfire driver too. NDA was also pushed back to the 28th.


http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...4&postcount=28

[Soulburner]

I suppose if you have good case airflow it shouldn't be a problem, but if you feel the exhaust air coming from an 8800 series card you would realize just how much that could potentially affect case temperature, and in return CPU temp.

[naokaji]

I suppose if you have good case airflow it shouldn't be a problem, but if you feel the exhaust air coming from an 8800 series card you would realize just how much that could potentially affect case temperature, and in return CPU temp.

agree, a exhaust cooler design would be better.

btw... the sheer amount of connectors made me dream... could it be possible that ati will make multi display setups possible with xfire?