Best video card in the world?

[lovely?]

Tomshardware.com

Well i guess Nvidia has finally been beaten, thats good to hear lol.

The card, the 3870 X2, has the same general theme as a 7950 GX2 going on, so it was only a matter of time untill this happened.

it seems that it games better, stays kinda cool, and doesnt draw much more power then a full-on 8800ULTRA, which is great. another great point is that it costs much less, at a price of 450$.

 

[WhiteFireDragon]

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

 

[Iluvpenguins]

Well the first well known one I can think of is the 7950GX2...which wasn't that great.

 

[lovely?]

Well the first well known one I can think of is the 7950GX2...which wasn't that great.

yeah i remember playing around with two side-by-side systems, one with a GTX and the other with a GX2 and the frame rate difference was very minimal...

 

[maroon1]

Tomshardware.com
it seems that it games better, stays kinda cool, and doesnt draw much more power then a full-on 8800ULTRA, which is great. another great point is that it costs much less, at a price of 450$.

Actually it consume more power than Ultra at full load

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13967/10

It have higher noise level as well

And that video card is not much faster than 8800GTS 512MB, and sometimes it performs worse

 

[Kornowski]

Wow, I didn't know that two HD3850's in crossfire were only as good as one GTS in Crysis, either

 

[PunterCam]

it looks a bit shit to me really. Slightly faster than an older nvidia card sometimes, louder, older tech... It's price seems to be its only real advantage

 

[Geoff]

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

They had them in the past, IIRC there was a dual-GPU 6600GT also, in addition to the 7950GX2.

 

[bigbird]

wow i didn't know video cards are entering the dual cores now. in a few years, i'm predicting quad cores too...

ATI has been doing this for years! See here:http://www.tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/973786432.jpg