Rumor: AMD Readies Dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 for an August Release
Posted 07/03/08 at 10:37:45 PM | by Pulkit Chandna
The initial response to AMD’s ATI Radeon 4850 and 4870 GPUs has been very encouraging. In fact, AMD expects the success of the two mid-range cards to help it consolidate its market share. Now there are unconfirmed reports of the high-end ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 dual-GPU with 2 GB GDDR5 memory being released by the end of this month.
The powerful GPU is expected to be priced about $499. According to Digitimes, its sources expect AMD to begin shipping Radeon 4870 X2 (RV770XT) to PC makers for designing custom cards. ATI’s revival is wonderful for the consumers as Nvidia will be pushed to improve its products and offer them at cheaper rates.
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Is 2GB nessasary?
Submitted by johnny3144 on Fri, 2008-07-04 07:08
i find it a bit odd for a graphic card to have 2GB of onboard ram.... i mean do the current or near future game really need 2GB to buffer? i don't even think crysis at 1920 x 1080(or higher) need that much ram....
Hats off to ATI
Submitted by whisp on Thu, 2008-07-03 22:39
Its about damn time, good for ATI finally making a good card and pricing it perfectly. They have Nvidias high-midrange by the balls. I hope this card scales properly, we may be seeing ATI take the worlds fastest gpu crown back once again!
Card looks just a wee bit large @_@
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2gb???
Submitted by Noob Of War on Thu, 2008-07-03 22:31
I'm not sure I like the fact that it has 2gb. If you ran in crossfire thats like 4gb? What about the the rest of my peripherals? That will use up all the ram. I mean even if one uses a 64 bit system most applications aren't native and will still suffer. I must be missing somthing.....
That is ram built on to a
Submitted by schneider1492 on Fri, 2008-07-04 02:24
That is ram built on to a peripheral and controlled by the peripheral for its own use, the system does not have to recognize that RAM just the video card! Check in your Control Panel\System if you don't believe me.
um...
Submitted by Caboose on Fri, 2008-07-04 00:01
Correct me if I'm wrong MPC, but from what I remember, the RAM on a video card (descrete) doesn't use the RAM in your system. So the 2GB of RAM in the card, is just for the card!
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Submitted by Mikhial66 on Fri, 2008-07-04 00:10
He's saying that 32x systems won't be able to read the 2/4GB from the card AND the RAM in the system.
Yeah, 32 bit systems should
Submitted by Link2Ib on Fri, 2008-07-04 01:57
Yeah, 32 bit systems should definitely not use this card. Hooray! Finally an advantage of 64 bit! Too bad there's no way I'm getting this... but at least in 2-3 years when 2GB video memory is standard it will come in handy.
Some clarification on 32-bit vs 64-bit
Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Fri, 2008-07-04 12:48
Even though video card RAM is physically separate from system RAM, it must still be addressed by the system using memory address space. 32-bit systems don't have enough memory space to address a 2GB card and address more than 2GB of RAM.
32-bit systems are already hitting the wall with video cards that include much lower amounts of RAM, though, as you can see from this 2007 posting: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/big_game_crash_blues_under_windows_vista_run_dont_walk_to_get_the_hotfix_you_need
However, as other posters have pointed out, 64-bit systems will have no problems using this card to its full capacity, as they have much more memory address space.
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