ATI/AMD to Offer dual GPU single card product

[maverik-sg1]

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/R680_To_Score_20K_In_3DMark06/5325.html

Interesting as this is more desirable than any crossfire/SLI solution:

Fudzilla reported that AMD plans to introduce a dual chip card called Radeon HD 2950X2X and it will have two RV670 chips on a single PCB. They called this dual GPU solution R670. On the other hand, we are still hearing R680 from our sources but both of us could be referring to the same thing. We even heard faintly that R680 could be AMD's ambitious plan to integrate two RV670 into a single die, if not on the same package.

VR-Zone has got hold of a presentation slide recently that gave some clues that R680 is a dual GPU (RV670 slide shows only one GPU pic). Our good buddy, CJ told us R680 is indeed a dual RV670 solution and is 1.5X faster than a Radeon HD 2900 XT in Crossfire. Another source told us that R680 could reach 20K in 3DMark06 or rather the target AMD is trying to achieve

 

[Thickbrit]

Dual core on 1 die is better than previous incarnations of dual gpu on 1 card for those of us that like to use extreme cooling.All previous dual gpu's have virtually useless to me,if they pull this off,i might be interested.

 

[maverik-sg1]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/09/inq-reveals-r680-radeon-hd-3870

INQ reveals the R680, Radeon HD 3870 X2

New Year offering at a shocking price

By Theo Valich: Friday, 09 November 2007, 12:39 PM

IN FEBRUARY 2004, a game appeared from nowhere. The name of that game was Far Cry, and it transformed a small team from Germany into international gaming megastars.

It spurred a graphics card bonanza, one repeated by by Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, with the market massively going for Athlon 64+Nforce3/4 systems with Geforce 6800GT, 6800 Ultra for high-end and Geforce 6600 for mainstream.

Now the circle has turned again, with the release of Hellgate: London, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 and Crysis. The time to get a new computer is now, and if you're asking yourself what would be the best $500 present under the Christmas tree, answer is two 8800GT or two 3870s, not an 8800GTX or 8800Ultra.

But, if you're willing to wait, this is what AMD has in store for January release.

Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is HD 3870 X2...

RV670 times two, 512MB GDDR4 memory times two, DVI-HDMI adapter - times two, DisplayPort... erm...

As you can see, this longer board is on the trail of the 8800GTX/Ultra PCB. Unusually, there is no significant increase in the height of the board, meaning this dual-GPU card will fit it a more compact chassis.

The price of 3870 X2 will be between 399 and 499 USD/EUR, 249 and 299 quids (yes, life sucks in Bligthy).

RV670 chips are working at 750+ MHz each. 775 MHz should be reachable by launch time. Who knows, maybe even 800 MHz for the GPU. When it comes to overclocking, we have no idea at the moment, but the memory should be able to work at 2.25 GHz, yielding in combined bandwidth of 144 GB/s. Not too shabby.

Also, with R680, AMD is hoping to finally close the circle the compnay opened with Rage Fury MAXX. This card was hailed by none other than Dave Orton as the first multi-GPU product. But as we all know, there was a small company called 3dfx that did that some years before ATI kicked in. The only problem that Rage Fury MAXX had, was the fact that if you chose to use Windows 2000, Windows XP, or just about any operating system other than Win98/Me, you'd be sitting dead in the water.

With two RV670s inside, owners of this card will have a future since this board will come to market as 3870 X2 and FireStream 9170 X2, albeit with double or quadruple amount of memory (probably GDDR3, not GDDR4). R700 is also bringing MCM concept in the world of GPUs, so we're heading to one very, very interesting year.

Bear in mind that the G92_300 series, or D8E, the GeForce 8850GX2 or 8950GX2, whatever Nvidia marketeers figure it out to be - is also a dual-chip board. It is widely expected that Nvidia's card will be the same as 7900GX2 and 7950GX2, or a dual-PCB connected with 20-or-so connecting pins, all working in harmony with Nvidia's BR04 chip.

Radeon HD 3850, 3870, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (and soon new G92-based GTS), and now Radeon HD 3870 X2 and Nvidia GeForce 8xx0GX2. Life doesn't get boring in the 3D industry. µ

MAv's comment - does not sound as expensive as I was first led to believe, but the unit will be 2 GPU's not a dual core GPU. Finally some competition for the GX2 from Nvidia - I certainly hope the performance between the two companies leaves no clear winner and let the price wars begin

 

[K404]

I hear rumours of an 8800GT GX2 as well

yea...im definately waiting till January to go back to the 3DMark game.....

 

[maverik-sg1]

Bear in mind that the G92_300 series, or D8E, the GeForce 8850GX2 or 8950GX2, whatever Nvidia marketeers figure it out to be - is also a dual-chip board. It is widely expected that Nvidia's card will be the same as 7900GX2 and 7950GX2, or a dual-PCB connected with 20-or-so connecting pins, all working in harmony with Nvidia's BR04 chip.

Says that in the above

What this means is that you poentially have SLI/Crossfire on any chipset using a set of GPU's that are more than capable of scaling well with todays processors, even those cooled in the extreme.

I was more than please with my 7950GX2 as it was able to perform very closely to my voltmodded 7900GTX SLI set-up - which then allowed me to run multi gpu on an intel chipset and produce even better 3dmark scores (core 2 with GX2 versus FX60 SLI).

Records should fall quick too as you can choose the best platform for CPU and RAM without having to be concerned about costly (and crap) SLI/Crossfire chipsets.

 

[K404]

Says that in the above

And yet again I fail the reading test 8)

The GX2 cards are a hassle to cool "properly" ie...sub-zero. Where theres a will theres a way...

 

[maverik-sg1]

They are not good for extreme cooling.

having said that - I found I did alright with just water on the GX2 and stand by my results as detailed in my sig

So maybe we will be as lucky again.

Given that this is crossfire/sli on any board, the additional performance by having freedom of choice on the mobo 'should' make up for this - and the fact that people can't easiliy get extreme should actually make the race for the best score using cooling that anyone can use (water or chilled water if you're careful) an exciting one.

 

[Fatal M]

well since AMD\ATI got together ... they realy came in hard to the world of tech's !! those guys are amazing !! and i say that even though i love Nividia More than those guys !!

iv been using Ati graphic card for over 3 years and it has actuely done a gr8 job !! since it actuely ran Crysis on medium

chears

Fatal

 

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