ATI R700 Pictured

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Hexus took a picture of the ATI R700 graphics card at a press event in Malaga, Spain. The site heard this card will be available in late July but the name and the pricing of the card is still not finalized. First everyone assumed they would give this card the Radeon HD 4870 X2 moniker but it seems AMD is trying to find a better name.

The pricing is also uncertain, Hexus cites a range of $499 to $599. Seems like AMD will have to decide between higher margins or slightly more marketshare.
This is the much-talked-about R700, presented on a black PCB. The twin-chip design should output somewhere in the region of 2.4TeraFLOPs of floating-point performance and, taking an educated guess with a GDDR5 implementation, around 230GiB/s of memory bandwidth. In comparison, Radeon HD 3870 X2 on-paper math throughput is roughly 1TeraFLOPS and bandwidth around 115GiB/s, and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280's is 0.933TeraFLOPS and 142GiB/s. You got to wonder just how much juice the card will consume. Conservative estimates put it at around 275W.
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headcrabCAKE said:
i love the black finished ill prob think abotu getting one and corss fire x it with my 4850

should be great the r700
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Why would you Crossfire it with a higher end 48xx series? If you already have a 4850 then theres no gain between buying another 4850 or buying a 4870 X2.
 
[-0MEGA-];1004905 said:
Why would you Crossfire it with a higher end 48xx series? If you already have a 4850 then theres no gain between buying another 4850 or buying a 4870 X2.
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I'm thinking you mean no gain in getting a 4870 to go with the current 4850 compared to just getting another 4850. Because a 4870x2 would add a 3rd card to the mix.
 
1Kurgan1 said:
I'm thinking you mean no gain in getting a 4870 to go with the current 4850 compared to just getting another 4850. Because a 4870x2 would add a 3rd card to the mix.
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If you have a single 4850, then buying a second card for use in Crossfire that is more powerful then the 4850 would be a waste. Even if you had a 4850 and 4870X2, it will still run just as if you had two 4850's, thats how Crossfire X works.
 
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