On the technical terms, yes.. they are not sharing memory. Physically speaking, if it were 1gb each side, it should be 2gb. Unless, they can ignore that in term of costing also. I don't mind at all.

Well, of course in term of costing it'd be included. But we as users shouldn't be concerned about costing at all.

Anyway, the card is performing well and is really nice for those who don't have CF capable mobos. I wonder how much it'll be when it reaches Malaysia.

okay anandtech screwed up

2gb afterall.

yay!!! competitions is always good for consumers.
I m going to grab this babe if it hit below 1.5k rm. hehehe... XD
hope more price drops between both vendors products soon due to heavy competitions.

R700 did put nvidia into panic.

I Feel That Nvidia Product Always OverPrice 1..

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Added on July 15, 2008, 1:14 pmWell Done ATi For R700

This post has been edited by SeaMonster: Jul 15 2008, 01:14 PM

yeah Ati da best GC



This post has been edited by rosihan: Jul 15 2008, 08:01 PM

Pre-benchmark for R700 quite solid, kinda respect ATi

you may first cosider whether you want to invest in your psu first... X2 i need more power
then if you think you have the extra cash of another 1.6k then grap the X2. if not 4870 is really more than enough for current game setting...

the decision is simple..

or if you can wait for R870...

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Added on July 16, 2008, 6:16 pmsingle card is always more preferred than 2 or 3 cards... stability and power consumption vs 3d performance efficiency...

This post has been edited by jeromeccm: Jul 16 2008, 06:16 PM

Nice to see HD4870 x2 win GTX280 OC

This post has been edited by zeustronic: Jul 16 2008, 08:10 PM

sexy card. imagine this card installed with two water blocks and running in WC

RADEON HD 4870 X2 specifications

* Codename: R700 (2 x RV770);
* Process technology: 55nm;
* 2 GPUs, 956M transistors each;
* Unified architecture with an array of shared processors for stream processing of vertices, pixels and other types of data;
* Hardware support for DirectX 10.1, including Shader Model 4.1, geometry generation and stream output;
* 2 x 256-bit memory bus, 4 x 64-bit controller supporting GDDR3 and GDDR5;
* 750 MHz core clock;
* 2 x 10 SIMD cores, including 2 x 800 scalar ALUs, integer and FP calculations, FP32/FP64 support, according to IEEE 754;
* 2 x 10 larger texture units supporting FP16/FP32;
* 2 x 40 texture addressing units;
* 2 x 160 texture fetch units;
* 2 x 40 bilinear filtering units supporting full-speed FP16 texture filtering and trilinear and anisotropic filtring support for all texture formats;
* Dynamic branching in pixel and vertex shaders;
* 2 x 16 ROPs supporting AA modes with programmable fetch of over 16 samples/pixel, including FP16/FP32 frame buffer. Up to 32 samples/clock (including MSAA 2x/4x modes and FP16 buffer), 128 samples/clock in Z only mode;
* Simultaneous write to up to 8 frame buffers (MRT);
* Support for 4 x RAMDAC, 4 x Dual Link DVI, HDMI, HDTV, DisplayPort (only 2 available);




ATI RADEON HD 4870 X2 2x1024MB

* GPU: 2 x RADEON HD 4870 (RV770);
* Interface: PCIe x16;
* GPU (ROPs/Shaders) clock rate: nominal 750/750 MHz;
* Memory clock rate, physical (effective): nominal 900 (3600) MHz;
* Bus width: 2 x 256-bit;
* Vertex processors: -;
* Pixel processors: -;
* Universal processors: 2 x 800;
* Texture processors: 2 x 40 (BLF/TLF);
* ROPs: 2 x 16;
* Size: 270 x 100 x 33 mm (the latter is max. width);
* PCB color: black;
* RAMDACs/TDMS: integrated into GPU;
* Outputs: 2 x DVI (Dual-Link/HDMI), TV-out (integrated into GPU);
* VIVO: -;
* Multi-GPU: Hardware CrossFire



http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/...3-part0-p1.html

This post has been edited by cwk88: Jul 17 2008, 08:26 AM

oh god ....when tis babe will fit into my thermaltake armour ???? waiting waiting waiting...

quite interested.....hopefully wont be too hot eh...

This post has been edited by mois: Jul 19 2008, 05:40 PM

from what i read, HD4870X2 will have better PowerPlay BIOS...

whr u read?

Correction, "HD4870X2 expected to have better PowerPlay BIOS"

i read from some Preview R700 website, i forgot which one..

Well, from the thread that states the G34 architecture (rectangle processors), above k8 are simply upgrades to k8. They've been adding time for the R&D team, which has been on the G34 architecture for 3 years.

expensive card : D

Ati going strong for now.....Mayb I'll jump to another wagon...weee.

After seeing the previews..... dang I want this card. Two 4870s for a usd$100 discount.

I'm drooling....