http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
my guess is that with people who want top of the line, wont care much about power consumption or size as long as performance is the main objective]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
at least ATI/AMD aren't as bad as nvidia. Ati's power-hungry high-performance cards are well priced. $150 less for what will probably be a better card]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
But ed. brings up a good point. Why the heck are they getting more expensive too? I remember a time when the fastest video card barely even exceeded $450.

Those were the days.

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A single one of the GPU chips on this board has 800 individual shader processors. You can pick up one of those GPU's on a $200 AMD 4850 graphics card at your local Brick & Mortar today.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
This thing is roughly 6-10 times more powerful than any console out there in terms of rendering capabilities, and is expected to launch at a price that puts NV's latest flagships to shame.

But at any rate, if you want something relatively cheap, and something that still shames any console by a wide margin, just invest $299 in the HD 4870, which is arguably still more powerful than every single console brand out there combined.

Heck, for < $150, you can have an 8800 GT, or for $199 an HD 4850, both of which once more, put consoles to shame in terms of displaying graphics.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
As long as video cards cost as much as a console, I'm going to stick to buying a console. I seriously doubt any ]]>Jul 3rd 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
where you been, buddy?

Also, I built my most recent rig for under $600 (including 19 inch monitor and pretty decent speakers). And it'll still kick the ass of any PS3 up and down the block.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
I hate it when the console playing peasants dare speak to the PC gaming master race.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
not to mention that as a software engineering student, i wouldn't bother writing any codes on a cell processor with quite limited memory availability.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
Not that I like consoles enough to have bought one in the last 12 years.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
My computer does just out do SNES in gaming, it plays SNES games while doing it. Pop-ups, background crap.....huh? Dude you need to get your system in check because you are pretty much alone on that one.]]>Jul 4th 2008 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Sure am glad that was leaked!]]>Jul 3rd 2008 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
But I think I'll get two of these, a DFI Lanparty UT X48 DDR3 mobo, 8 gigs of DDR3 ram, and an E8400 instead.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
As for the cooling.... Judging by estimated price - which is below 2*priceof(4870) - might be they have turned down some factory overclocking which is obviously applying to single chip 4870 cards. Lower performance - lower price.

Also, if one would multiply power consumption of 4870 by two, then you really need to have some huge power supply. During 4870 in crossfire tests people complained that they needed >1000W power supply for system to be stable. Again, decreasing speed of 4870 as used in X2 might be a solution for stable system with say 600W power supply (because theoretically it should be enough to power two RV770).

P.S. conspiracy theory of a day: AMD/ATI thrown in the rumored price to be far below gtx280 to try to piss nVidia.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Still damn fast I gotta say, if it would ever come about.
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Now double that for this card and you are at .6 TFLOPS for DP.

AMD has finally clobbered NVidia. Download your SDK's here: http://ati.amd.com/technology/streamcomputing/sdkdwnld.html
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It's good to see ATI back in the game, and I heard they'll also be pushing the All-In-Wonder Radeons back! Hurray!]]>Jul 3rd 2008 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
The price of the 9800 GTX dropped about $100 in a couple days after the GTX 200 series was released.

Even the GTX 260s and 280s are going on sale already. I'm hoping for a $300-$350 GTX 260 by the end of this month. ]]>Jul 3rd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
@dagwood, I belive ATI may be aiming these cards at 64 bit users a little more this time around if that is the case. 64 bit has to be supported sometime. All of us can't stay stuck on 32 bit architecture forever as memory is going up and up, and many programs and games get more demanding.

It will be interesting to see the size, but I guarantee all that it will be a double slot, as per previous cards. 4 slot someone said? Give me a break. The power reqs. will be through the roof, that is for sure...]]>Jul 3rd 2008 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
Computer gamers that don't know how this works....FAIL.]]>Jul 3rd 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/14/windows-vista-32-bit-and-64-bit-x86-and-x64-maximum-supported-ram-physical-memory-limit/

Didn't want to call you out without proof :)]]>Jul 3rd 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Thank you for point out what I already know. I never said there was no limit. I said that your DEDICATED GPU didn't affect it. Everything is that article is 100% correct, to bad it assumes that (like more than 65% of our PC users) your GPU is intergrated. Intergrated graphics due suck up address because the motherboard will access it directly. A dedicated card handles all that work.....which is why dedicated GPU's will have memory address limits in their specs.

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I don't know why you insist on making fun of people when you are incorrect yourself. Just like other hardware on the PCI bus, graphics cards do have their on board memory 'memory-mapped' into the addressable 32-bit address space. It's just never been a noticeable issue until recently because lots of people didn't have 4GB of RAM and graphics cards weren't 1GB or greater. Check out this article from dansdata that does a pretty good job explaining:
http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm]]>Jul 15th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/03/amd-radeon-hd-4870-x2-images-leaked-rumored-for-august-release/Jul 3rd 2008 8:46AM