Anyone else turned on by these video cards?
hunter and i have had conversations at length about this card and from what i have read it hopefully be released on or about august 13th. When released, i am seriously considering this card.
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);
I wont even pretend to understand what most of that means ,but
Gizmodo pretty much sums up what i have been reading.
I thought the same thing. Sexy maybe, but not turned on.
