Friday, September 25th 2009
AMD Radeon HD 5870 X2 Pictured
Behold AMD's, and soon aimed to be the industry's most powerful graphics accelerator: Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock". Armed with two "Cypress" Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors, this dual-GPU monstrosity packs twice the shader compute power. From the looks of it, the card is slightly longer than its single-GPU sibling from the series, and is better ventilated, although the cooler design more or less resembles it. It draws its power from one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E power connectors, just like two of its ancestors in the R700 and R680. Listed for pre-order on a European online store, a Radeon HD 5870 X2 by Club3D is priced at 677 EUR (incl. applicable taxes, 568.9 EUR excluding).
Source:
Xtreme Systems Forums
145 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 5870 X2 Pictured
I think it may be time for a new form factor for PCs that allow video cards to grow "taller" instead of "longer"...
This is only a PR thing for a Online Shop
I wish I had a job ;(
Its Salland dutch online shop but they removed item now because it was a fake
Sorry I had to do it :laugh:
Anyway I would love to own one but anyone who buys this for gaming is a moron. That is WAY to much money to play crappy console ports.
So this pic I posted in the 5870 thread was accurate. Look at X2 length compared to 5870:
I surveyed my Antec 1200 and believe I'm in good shape. Check out the Asus 4890 TOP, a bit of room left. I'll need to move some cables and use the open middle drive bay to nest them. My SSD's are out of the way in the upper drive cage. A decent case for such a monster:
5870 is longer than GTX295
& now its 5870x2 even longer than 5870
Now of my knowledge its 5850x2 not 5870x2
Bcos 5870 for there TDP cannot sit side-by side together :nutkick:
:D
Price WOW, but AMD do need to drive the prices back up so they can get some of there own fabs.
What an awesome piece of kit, in an emergency you could use it to defend your home!
People will think its some sort of ungodly weapon!