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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - R700 Preview: AMD's Fastest Single Card
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - R700 Preview: AMD's Fastest Single Card
Date: July 14th, 2008
Topic: Video Card
Manufacturer: ATI
Author: Derek Wilson
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Crysis Performance

Simply because it is Crysis, we must take a look at performance. And in this case, R700 performed right on point with 4870 in CrossFire.

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Unfortunately, CrossFire leaves a lot to be desired in terms of multi-GPU performance scaling under Crysis. SLI scales much better, but the fact that R700 performs identically to 4870 in CrossFire means that it is at least significantly faster than a single GTX 280. Which isn't shabby.

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56 Comments - Last by David Brown, 309 days ago
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Crysis! by GTaudiophile, 575 days ago
AMD: Focus on "Crysis" domination and I'm sold!

Keep up the good work but keep on working!

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RE: Crysis! by soydeedo, 575 days ago
AMD: Give me $300 more dollars and I'm sold!

Also a spelling note on the GRID benchmark page: intreguing

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RE: Crysis! by orionmgomg, 575 days ago
Rgr THAT 100%

That and a 64 bit OS Vista 64 Ultimate for all the memory and DX10


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HOT! by sc3252, 575 days ago
This card is hot for a $500 video card. I cant wait to pick one up. Two questions I have. Does it actually share the memory or is it separate? Did they fix the stutter associated with Crossfire?

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RE: HOT! by DerekWilson, 575 days ago
memory is not shared. shared framebuffer won't come out for a while yet apparently ...

each GPU has a separate 512MB framebuffer.

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RE: HOT! by LeftSide, 575 days ago
Hardopc is saying their card has 2gigs, 1gig per core. Are there 2 versions of this card?

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RE: HOT! by toyota, 575 days ago
EVERY other review I have seen has been the 2gb models.

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RE: HOT! by homerdog, 575 days ago
Same here...

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RE: HOT! by DerekWilson, 575 days ago
oh yeah, and we're going to wait until the card actually comes out to look at things like micro-stutter etc...

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Drivers by gigahertz20, 575 days ago
AMD needs to get on the ball with their drivers, they still don't even have the 4850 and 4870 listed on their site under video card drivers.

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Seems like all their effort was put into just releasing the hardware to sell and make money, and not putting as much time into perfecting the drivers as they should be.

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