CrossfireX quad driver expected in January

[Steve]

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...4931&Itemid=34

Still on track

The Crossfire X driver is the great big hope for ATI's graphics future. There is a lot at stake with this driver. The success of R680, dual RV670 card hangs in the balance, as this driver has to be able to run two or even four RV670 core and give some satisfactory scores.

Nvidia just launched its three-way SLI and in extreme situations this concept works well, so people would expect a lot from four RV670 cards, or two R680 cards with two chip each.

The driver was and still is on schedule for mid to late January and we are sure that we will see the demonstration next week at CES, while the final one should be ready by the end of the month.

The driver launch is scheduled for Radeon 3870 X2, aka R680 launch, and at this time that looks like late January or first week of February. The cards work, we’ve seen them back in early November, it’s all about the driver now.



there's my next card right there (3870 X2)
gooo ATi

[Steve]

As AMD's new flagship, we see that this is not the HD3870 X2 version of the card, but by the manufacturers Shuangmin pathway offered by Promise high-end graphics, Shuangmin abandon the whole public review board cooling design, but chose to install two separate open-core radiator and thus better cooling effect:

NVIDIA and the 7950 GX2 different HD3870 X2 is not a pair of PCB design, and graphics length is not an exaggeration, and the size of its opponent's top graphics 8800GTX/Ultra is almost the same, so you need not worry about whether installed in the chassis of problems.

Dual fan can easily solve two core of 16 memory and a PCI-E chip heat control, and noise than the high-power version of the single turbofan lower, but shortcomings in the residue is still hot air chassis, the chassis This gamers to a higher cooling ventilation requirements.

Basically, it is fitting the two HD3870, independent power supply modules, needs two 6 Pin PCI-E power supply interface, occupying two PCI slots, as this high-end graphics card is not an exaggeration.

From this perspective, we can see clearly that R680 with a modern 0.8 ns GDDR4 memory, each core opposed to 512 MB 256Bit, the card is 1 GB 512Bit. In addition the center of the card is PCI-E controllers, two RV670 core through its link up to share data and exchange PCI-E 2.0 X16 interface.

Shuangmin Promise R680 graphics detailed parameters:

Core: RV670XT X 2 (double-HD3870)
Memory: 1024 M 0.8ns GDDR4
Frequency: 775 MHz/2250MHz
Stream Processor: 320 X 2
Power ports: 6 PIN X 2
Output ports: DVI X 2 + HDTV-OUT
Features: support DX10.1, integrated UVD HD decoder engine, support for PCI-E 2.0 bus, support HDMI output

[SilentTrigger]

Looks awsome!