ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 (R680) Pictured in CrossFire

[Apoptosis]

says in the review that these dont need the 4-pci slots as they are obviously dual gpu cards

but does that mean two of them can run on a crossfire X38 board with 2x PCI-E 2.0 16x/16x in crossfire?

They haven't announced if it will or won't yet.

[w00fd06]

I wonder if graphics cards will follow the path of processors and if we'll be seeing quad-gpu cards anytime soon, or even tri-gpu cards. Or if they'll just add to the processors like AMD is looking to do with their Fusion processsors.

[DMB2000uk]

What like Triple SLI/XFireX?

I think that because a graphics card is dedicated to doing a specific job, it is easier for graphics companies to make them faster and more effcient at doing what they do without having to resort to multiple cores on a chip/die thing we are seeing with CPU's.

There are some cards (out and coming out) that put two cores on one card, but they are essentially just sli/xfire on a card rather than a multi core thing.

Dan

[maj0r_pawnage]

4x crossfire vs 3x sli D: i think if ati can mange good drivers to get all four cards working well together they can beat nvid

[w00fd06]

I was using the catalyst 7.7 drivers for a while , when i got 7.10, i saw a slight performance improvement (5-10fps in Lightsmark2007). And now I'm just realizing 7.12 is out. If only i could find that catalyst overdrive in 7.10#-o . So with a few more updates they should slowly improve, maybe not at par with their nVidia counterparts, but close.

[Tjoepie]

Any news on this yet?

says in the review that these dont need the 4-pci slots as they are obviously dual gpu cards

but does that mean two of them can run on a crossfire X38 board with 2x PCI-E 2.0 16x/16x in crossfire?

I'd like to run 2 of these cards on a Asus Maximus Formula Special Edition with a intell qaud core 6600 CPU.

[Apoptosis]

shouldn't be a problem... Any board with x16 PCI Express (v1 or 2) should be fine.

[maj0r_pawnage]

kinda defeats the purpose of the whole spider platform

[Tjoepie]

I was thinking, yes it happens sometimes and it hurts ;-) , It must be possible:

Or else you would need crosfire to run even a single card with 2 gpu's on any MB and I don't think ATI would limits sales due to this.

[Apoptosis]

here is a picture of the card naked... Looks like the first one is the most recent version... It's obvious that ATI made several versions during development.

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Looks like AMD/ATI is using a PLX bridge chip

[maj0r_pawnage]

if only this could play crysis on very high (dx9 tweak ftfps) @ 1280 + 2x aa with like 30-35fps

[level32]

What case is the quad Crosfire in?

[FeRaL]

What case is the quad Crosfire in?

Looks like a Thermaltake Armor case.

[themattman]

3870 x2 in Crossfire seems like the height of unnecessaryness (a real word?) for computing. Yes, it gets you more fps, but it also can be a replacement for a jet engine :p

But if I got one for free, I wouldn't complain.

[werty316]

Now that is quite sweet, it'll be great to see some results once there are drivers that support CrossfireX.

[slugbug]

It looks like they're sponsoring a few contests with these cards. I wouldn't mind winning one

[JustinEss]

I'd really like to see the performance of the 3870X2 in a crossfire x setup, eight cores of glory!
I'd expect that the more cards you add, the lower % of a performance boost a card will give. But hey, if you have money to burn and a 100" television, stuff would be, uh, playable. But I would also expect to see some mean benchmarks.
But I have an odd feeling I won't be seeing any reviews of 3870X2's in crossfire x for awhile.

[w00fd06]

I'd really like to see the performance of the 3870X2 in a crossfire x setup, eight cores of glory!
But I have an odd feeling I won't be seeing any reviews of 3870X2's in crossfire x for awhile.

You can't have four of these in crossfire, only two, unfortunately, because the card itself is basically crossfire on a board, and the drivers for Crossfire X aren't out either

[Wildfire788]

I'd really like to see the performance of the 3870X2 in a crossfire x setup, eight cores of glory!
I'd expect that the more cards you add, the lower % of a performance boost a card will give. But hey, if you have money to burn and a 100" television, stuff would be, uh, playable. But I would also expect to see some mean benchmarks.
But I have an odd feeling I won't be seeing any reviews of 3870X2's in crossfire x for awhile.

I've heard that CrossfireX with the 3870X2 consists of only 2 cards (4 GPU's). It sure seems like that since there is only one CF connector thing at the top of the card... Looks like we won't be getting any 8-GPU goodness.

[maj0r_pawnage]

how about this TRI 8800gtx vs Dual 3870x2?

or tri 8800gts vs dual 3870x2