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
No, it's not going to look like this, but it's a working prototype:
^You can see a heatsink between the GPUs (there's the bridge chip)
Ze back:
^although the card has 6 + 8 pin power connectors, there's placeholders for two 8-pin connectors.
As for the length, I love it, my high end cards need to pack a fair amount of 'cleft' to em, however this is biiiiiiiiiiiiig.
Aragorn: If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
Legolas: ...and you have my bow...
Gimli: ...and my 5870X2...
and finally,
6890x2
:laugh:
Bigger motherboards (some X58 mobos), bigger cards, and what next? Will we go back to 5.25" hard drives that use 5 inch platters for 2x the capacity? I bet many of you guys would love to buy 4TB hard drives even if they were released in such format today!
And then we'd need new mega-size CTX tower cases to accommodate the bloated sizes, along with 200/300mm fans to cool those quad-chip 600mm^2 GT300 cards on dual PCB's! What else??
. . . this card could land friggin airplanes inside your case.
want want
my temjin tj6 (upside down) has room for a 14 " card if it needed PSU on top with harddrive case get on of those and plus it looks better than having the video cards upside down in a regular case
u try livin with my wife n kids