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Inside: Info! Benchmarks! Photos! Second pair of pants not included.
Huzzah! The single-card performance heavyweight has finally come into our labs, and we’ve got initial benchmark results (and, of course, some pics).
Similar to AMD's previous generation dual-GPU card -- the 3870 X2 -- the new 4870 X2 is essentially two separate 4870’s crammed together on one PCB. But the important thing to note here is that clock speeds of the core and memory haven’t been reduced at all -- and the memory for each core has been doubled!
With our trusty QX6850 at 4GHz, results are conspicuously similar to Crossfire-d 4870’s – but that’s not a bad thing at all. This is great news for anyone who has an Nforce based mobo, but wants to upgrade to some Crossfire lovin’.
Prices from the various intertubes are currently hovering around the 670-odd dollar mark. It’s not as expensive as the ludicrous $1K plus cards we’ve seen before, but it will leave your wallet a little lighter than before. The glaring upside is that you’ll get the fastest card to grace mankind yet.
Make sure you grab a copy of issue 93 of Atomic, where we’ll be benching fantastically excessive Quad and Triple Crossfire setups – both of which give surprising results.
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