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Review: Twin-gun AMD R700 aims to blow NVIDIA out of the water

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 July 2008, 18:41

Tags: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, GeForce GTX 280, AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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A look at the card

Here she is: R700 good to go.



The black heatsink makes the Radeon HD 4870 X2 look mean.

You might think that the layout has been seen before, and you may have, right on the twin-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2 that was released in January this year.



Spot the differences, folks. Radeon HD 4870 X2 on the top and HD 3870 X2 on the bottom.

The front is practically identical to the 3870 X2' and the back isn't dissimilar, either.

The two Radeon HD 4870 GPUs sit side by side, of course, unlike NVIDIA's face-to-face GeForce 9800 GX2 setup.

A single CrossFire connector lets you hook to another HD 48x0 card for increased performance, but the gain inexorably diminishes as you continue to add GPUs, to a maximum of four.