HardwareAMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 - Testing the Multi-GPU Waters

AMD officially unveils its highest performing single-card to date: the Radeon HD 4870 X2. How will the first multi-GPU R7xx series card fare against the price reduced GeForce GTX 280 and 260 from NVIDIA?...

Today is all about the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the same card we previewed last month but AMD is quietly announcing a few other products alongside it. The 4870 X2, internally referred to as R700, is a pair of RV770 GPUs on a single card - effectively a single-card, Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire (hence the X2 moniker). Like previous X2 cards, the 4870 X2 appears to the user and the driver as a single card and all of the CrossFire magic happens behind the scenes.   ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 ATI Radeon HD 4870 ATI Radeon HD 4850 Stream Processors 800 x 2 800 800 Texture Units 40 x 2 40 40 ROPs 16 x 2 16 16 Core Clock 750MHz 750MHz 625MHz Memory Clock 900MHz (3600MHz data rate) GDDR5 900MHz (3600MHz data rate) GDDR5 993MHz (1986MHz data rate) GDDR3 Memory Bus Width 256-bit x 2 256-bit 256-bit Frame Buffer 1GB x 2 512MB 512MB Transistor Count 956M x 2 956M ... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]

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