AMD announce new GPU cores
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Its cool. Its on one board too rather then 2 together, so cooling should be a LOT easier.
Xfire scales a LOT better then SLI in almost everything so looks really promising. Hands up to fudzilla they reported this like 2 or 3 months ago.
Im guessing this should work in quad xfire although I am expecting that two of these using 2x pci-e slots wont be as good as using 4x 3870s in 4x pci-e slots.
Just a hunch.
Xfire scales a LOT better then SLI in almost everything so looks really promising. Hands up to fudzilla they reported this like 2 or 3 months ago.
Im guessing this should work in quad xfire although I am expecting that two of these using 2x pci-e slots wont be as good as using 4x 3870s in 4x pci-e slots.
Just a hunch.
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Sounds interesting, but time and results will tell.
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If you saw some of the recent xfire scaling tests youd change your mind about that. (they are pretty much awesome. 80%+ in a LOT of situations)
And with a single 3850 costing £100 and a single 3870 costing about £140, 2 together destroy 2x 8800GT for price/performance.
Rastalovich
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Well how about a linky to these spectacular results of this versus 2x 8800 GT ?
Erm what am I changing my mind about anyway ? That it sounds interesting ? Or that time will tell with these 2 gpu thingies ?
Erm what am I changing my mind about anyway ? That it sounds interesting ? Or that time will tell with these 2 gpu thingies ?
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=207702
I think youd agree that that xfire scaling is just immense.
I think youd agree that that xfire scaling is just immense.
Rastalovich
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It`s a very impressive set of results from an AMD/ATI pov.
What would lead to higher %ages too, I feel, is if they test Oblivion - it almost has a relationship with ATI cards.
However I would be critical in that the 1 set of results look comparable to the likes of Oblivion, COJ - as in it looks like it`s been dev`ed with it in mind.
I would also look at the sizes of the resolutions in question and the fact that if u put the extra eye candy on it falls back behind. Plain resolutions it pushes ahead.
Definately shows that AMD/ATI are by no means being wiped out of the water by nVidia. But as soon as we turn our back, the 8800GT becomes nVidia`s ~mid range~ card, and we see more and more strides being taken.
1 things for sure, the competition is definately there, and the CEO`s aim at profits again for AMD in Q3 2008 could well be more promising than we could have thought several months ago.
He worth his ~7.45% pay increase he just had ? If Q3 turns out as he`s predicting, it may well be worth it.
What would lead to higher %ages too, I feel, is if they test Oblivion - it almost has a relationship with ATI cards.
However I would be critical in that the 1 set of results look comparable to the likes of Oblivion, COJ - as in it looks like it`s been dev`ed with it in mind.
I would also look at the sizes of the resolutions in question and the fact that if u put the extra eye candy on it falls back behind. Plain resolutions it pushes ahead.
Definately shows that AMD/ATI are by no means being wiped out of the water by nVidia. But as soon as we turn our back, the 8800GT becomes nVidia`s ~mid range~ card, and we see more and more strides being taken.
1 things for sure, the competition is definately there, and the CEO`s aim at profits again for AMD in Q3 2008 could well be more promising than we could have thought several months ago.
He worth his ~7.45% pay increase he just had ? If Q3 turns out as he`s predicting, it may well be worth it.
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