ATi 4870X2(R700) PCB Debut

[LordEC911]

Well, the 1Gb on GPU-Z can be taken two different ways...
#1- Shared memory
#2- 2x1Gb, like speculated.

Everyone was surprised at 40TMUs, everyone was surprised again with 800SPs, most were surprised at ~950tran and ~260mm2.
Why can't AMD/ATi surprise again with the R700?

[Chickenfeed]

Well, the 1Gb on GPU-Z can be taken two different ways...
#1- Shared memory
#2- 2x1Gb, like speculated.

Everyone was surprised at 40TMUs, everyone was surprised again with 800SPs, most were surprised at ~950tran and ~260mm2.
Why can't AMD/ATi surprise again with the R700?

Well said. I hope to be pleasantly surprised as well. 1gb of VRAM per gpu just makes more sense on a card like this given its marketed as their high end part. If it turns out to be the case, the card will probably even take on the 280 at 2560x1600 which would be quite sweet for the 30" LCD users ( and for future and current games/mods that will use 512+ Vram ) Still the cost may make the price budge.

[jackolantern7]

Well, the 1Gb on GPU-Z can be taken two different ways...
#1- Shared memory
#2- 2x1Gb, like speculated.

Everyone was surprised at 40TMUs, everyone was surprised again with 800SPs, most were surprised at ~950tran and ~260mm2.
Why can't AMD/ATi surprise again with the R700?

Shared memory is a different league of a difficult problem. Not saying it's impossible but it's just unlikely as hell.

Besides, with shared memory, if they find any issues down the line they're stuck with it, versus the tried and true 'safe' method.