Wednesday, March 26th 2008
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ATI Planning HD 3850 X2?
ATI's recently launched HD 3870 X2 graphics card was mostly well received, and according to Chinese site HKEPC, the company may now try the same tactic with the HD 3850. The site reports that the HD 3850 X2 should go on sale during mid-2008 with a price tag of between $299 and $379 - which would put it right in the firing line of NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTS. It looks like the card will continue to use the RV670 core and feature GDDR3 memory, although the memory speed will be dropped from 2000MHz to 1800MHz, with a choice of 512MB or 1GB capacities.
Source:
HKEPC (Translated)
41 Comments on ATI Planning HD 3850 X2?
Differences between 3870 and 3850
- Core Speed
- 3870 - GDDR4, 3850 - GDDR3
3870 X2 already uses GDDR3...so the 3850 X2 is basically a slower 3870 X2?
So in other words...it's another 2900 Pro...
The 8800GTS is already nipping at the heals of the 3870x2(only about 8% performance difference), so releasing a slower version of the 3870x2 at the same price point as the 8800GTS is just plain stupid.
so we end up with a x2 3850 and a x 2 3870.. one clocked a little slower with gddr3 and one clocked faster with gddr4..
neat enough.. and the new x2 3850 is bound to come cheaper.. the ati line up gets better.. no problems except for nvidia.. what will their reply be... a x2 9600 probably..
once again ati lead nvidia will have to reply.. folks will buy x 2 even if it dont go any better than the next step up x 1.. just like they buy quad cpus over faster duals..
the multi whatever is the way its going.. and people will buy it.. two is better than one and four is better than two.. the logic is simple.. the next ati high end offering will be four gpus on one card.. the more the merrier.. all it takes is cool running chips..
trog
the new multi hardware is now waiting for software to catch up..
trog
although, we haven't heard anything about PCIE2 support, yet . . . but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it showed up on the spec sheets for the new GDDR4 70x2 cards.
Looking forward to it :toast: keeping in mind that there are a lot of people that go to purchase hardware that don't really understand the differences, and don't ever OC the cards and run everything "as is" - all they'll see is the lower price tag.
I expect the 70x2 price to go up a bit once the GDDR4 versions hit the shelves; or to stay stable and the price of the 50x2 will drop quickly soon after initial release.
to hell with the X2 stuff just release a 3850 X3 and call it a day
seems like a good idea although im sure this would need pci express 2.0 because thats 4 gpus
if they can stick 3 mobile gpu together then why not 4
Think about the first pci-e interface cards, but reversed. The cards were the exact same agp boards, but had that bridge chip.
It's easy to do, but they want to force you to buy a pci-e board so they rake in more cash.
I think it's total BS and they shouldn't shit on the customers like that. Especially, since just a couple yrs ago everyone had AGP boards.