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impar
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:53 am    Post subject: HD 3870 X2 - Reviews
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ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2: 2 GPUs 1 Card, A Return to the High End
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These dual GPU designs are even more important today because of the SLI/CrossFire limitations that exist on various chipsets. With few exceptions, you can't run SLI on anything other than a NVIDIA chipset; and unless you're running an AMD or Intel chipset, you can't run CrossFire. These self-contained SLI/CrossFire graphics cards will work on anything however.

AMD is the first out of the gates with the Radeon HD 3870 X2, based on what AMD is calling its R680 GPU. Despite the codename, the product name tells the entire story: the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is made up of two 3870s on a single card.
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AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

One of the more anticipated video cards of this year is finally here, AMD is launching the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. What will two 3870 GPUs on one board do for you in gaming? We are going to find out exactly that in Crysis, UT3, COD 4 and HL2.
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AMD's Radeon HD 3870 X2 video card
CrossFire on a stick!
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The folks at AMD have no doubt been fidgeting nervously over the past year-plus—chewing on the tips of their pens, tapping their fingers on their desks, checking and re-checking the value of their stock options—waiting for the chance to recapture the performance lead. Frustratingly, no single Radeon HD GPU would do it, not the 2900 XT, and not the 3870.

But who says you need a single GPU? This is where the Radeon HD 3870 X2 comes into the picture. On the X2, two Radeon HD 3870 GPUs gang up together to take on any GeForce 8800 available. Will they succeed? Let's find out.
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AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 Performance Preview
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Quite simply, because these devices are growing more complicated, developing a cutting edge GPU like R600 or G80 is taking longer than ever and both AMD and NVIDIA are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D to bring them to market. Because of this, the days of the 6-month product cycle didn’t occur this generation, and it’s possible that other than die shrinks, we may not see them again.

This puts AMD and NVIDIA in a difficult situation: how do you continue to deliver dramatic breakthroughs in performance if it takes longer and is more expensive to develop a next-generation high-end GPU? Simple, you add more GPUs to the graphics card itself.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:51 am    Post subject:
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Two GPUs, one card: A review of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
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The 3870X2's GPUs are based on the same RV670 chip that powers the standard HD 3870, but that doesn't mean building a 3870X2 is as simple as gluing two chips together and calling it a day. ATI's reference 3870X2 design leaves some room for the card to grow, and offers board vendors a fair degree of flexibility when designing their offerings.
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ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - Fastest Yet!
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R680 Has Landed: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:26 pm    Post subject:
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R680: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
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It’s almost like a dream because many conspiracy theorists believed that AMD would quietly exit the high-end and focus more of the resources on the mass market. While the latter part of that statement is true, the former couldn’t be farther from the truth, as the company has released its first true high-end graphics card since the Radeon X1950 XTX; allow me to introduce you to the Radeon HD 3870 X2 – a product that AMD has referred to as R680 on numerous occasions.

Over the course of this article, we’re going to cover the Radeon HD 3870 X2 in typical bit-tech fashion – we’ll cover the technology first and then that will be followed closely by a comprehensive selection of benchmarks from some of today’s hottest games.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject:
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AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 Sanity Check

After our initial launch article on the Radeon HD 3870x2, we decided to run a quick sanity check and make sure that our positive experience wasn't overly limited by the games we tested. We wanted to make sure that this card really acts like a single card as our first account seemed to indicate.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:01 am    Post subject:
Thanks for all the awesome review links. I'm really glad to be getting one of these bad boys!
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