Monday, June 30th 2008
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Two R700s Churn-out X12515 in 3DMark Vantage
AMD, Austin have managed a benchmark score of X12515 in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark using two Radeon HD4870 X2 cards in CrossfireX, a feat that takes three GeForce GTX 280 cards in 3-way SLI to achieve. The R700 boards were clocked at 778 MHz core, while the GDDR5 memory was clocked at 980 MHz QDR (effectively 3.92 GHz). This brings the total on-board video bandwidth to a stellar 250.8 GBps.With inputs from TG Daily
157 Comments on Two R700s Churn-out X12515 in 3DMark Vantage
Will be there any 4600 series?
3= 1950 usd
if u get 4 for 950 less isnt that a bargain plus you dont have to own your own power generating stattion for the triple sli .....
what i dont understand is ppl talking about it isnt fair to use 2 gpus to beat single gpu , well i got one word ( actually its a sentence ).......... if my V8 costs less to beat an over priced V6 car ........... which one shud i get .
Seriously, I was actually going to CF two 3650's together just for the hell of it, but only if I can get a 3650 really cheap one day.
As long as NV markets their card as the fastest and responds to the x2 with "but those are two cards" the world will still fall for it. And last time I checked, NV is better at marketing than ATI/AMD.
Also it's "capisce", as it isn't the most friendly choice of words you should at least spell it correctly.
Which one would I rather buy, a $500 (AA) that completely beats a $650 (B) that hardly beats a $300 (A): AA>>B>A so $500>>$650>$300. Its a Paradox that will never make sense - unless NV lower their prices or ppl just blow sick amounts of cash on names instead of researching first. That's why kids can't afford things of this nature...
Something hints that this 2x R700 bench was run on a machine running a Phenom X4.
Besides, $69 is 30% more, not exactly "a bit' more. Considering it isn't near 30% faster than a 9800GTX and the + being faster than the normal GTX I hardly believe NV is that far behind.
Another thing is people keep sayin ATi will lead til the green team makes a 280GX2? Cmon people lets be serious that’s not gonna happened, well not this generation. Do you want a GPU that burns 400+ watts? Didn’t think so.
because they need a reason for themselves to believe why Nvidia is better :P
Nvidia on other side is don`t know how to do single board dual gpu, so they are only able to stick 2 boards together
Do you really think that Nvidia is going to make a GTX280 X2? 2x 500mm² on 1 card, then you need to have an extreme fan to keep them cool, with a standard fan they could reach 100-110°C.
And euh, 1 GTX280 costs 650$, a GTX280 X2 would be 1200$ or so. Who would buy that?
Congratz AMD, nice job :respect:
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=191313
k|ngp|n did that on all air. That's 3 GPUs vs 4 gpus. If Nvidia does come out with a dual card again, I think it could really put a hurting on the x2.(this is before physics drivers I think)
Then he turned around and did this wow.
First thing the 4870X2 is still seen as 1 card even though it has two cores. So its still 2 cards VS 3.
EDIT: and as i keep saying 280GX2, not gonna happen anytime soon.
EDIT again: Hope this does not piss of any Nv fan boys in the building but i just thought it was funny:)news.softpedia.com/images/news2/NVIDIA-to-Release-GTX-280-GX2-4.jpg
It would still cost a thousand dollars for 2 x2 cards which is also a lot of money. The x2 is going to be a great card for the money, but when you want more than that the 280 will be the way to go. I know that it is considered a single card, but the fact is that it is 3 cores vs 4.
I bet this would have been a better bench if they ran it on a Intel setup though I'm just guessing they didn't.
so wait for bench on 4GHz quad intel proc. (must get ~x15000).
......and for all nvidiots well 4 GPU vs nvidia 3 GPU that is 10cm^2 VS 15CM^2 on nvidia, or if i say 500w TDP VS 700W TDP or better....... ~900$ VS 1800$ :)
i hope that all nvidiots understand what i am saying