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R700 Actual Radeon HD 4870 X2 Photos mmmm Black PCB...
At a press-event held today in Malaga, Spain, ATI rolled out a succession of speakers to evangelise the benefits of its upcoming RV770 - Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 - architecture that, the company says, will revolutionise the mid-range graphics-card space. So what do you get when you place two enthusiast-class Radeon HD 4870s on one PCB? Well, coming back to the event in Spain, ATI had a black chassis sat in the corner, unplugged, lookin' all lonesome. It was only right to investigate when executives were busy metaphorically back-slapping each other on a job well done. This is the much-talked-about R700, presented on a black PCB. The twin-chip design should output somewhere in the region of 2.4TeraFLOPs of floating-point performance and, taking an educated guess with a GDDR5 implementation, around 230GiB/s of memory bandwidth. In comparison, Radeon HD 3870 X2 on-paper math throughput is roughly 1TeraFLOPS and bandwidth around 115GiB/s, and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280's is 0.933TeraFLOPS and 142GiB/s. You got to wonder just how much juice the card will consume. Conservative estimates put it at around 275W. Due to go on sale in late July for between $499 and $599, R700 is ATI's answer to NVIDIA's monolithic-monster design. Of course, three GeForce GTX 280s can be harnessed together in three-way SLI, and it will be doubly interesting to see how they perform against two R700s in CrossFireX
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ATI R700 Press Slides & Possible Results?
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