#920- Quad Crossfire HD 4870 X2 Benchmark

Some of you may say that the GTX 280 GX2 will surely outperform the HD 4870 X2, but it's gonna cost $799 for the GX2. Get the HD 4870 X2 for the same price of the GTX 280 with performance in the 90% range of the GX2!Due to the recent poor scaling of SLI, the X2 may outperform the GX2. In EVERY BENCHMARK, HD 4870 CF outperforms the GTX 280 SLi.While we are away for Computex, CJ let us know that the Radeon HD 4870 X2 R700 prototype card is out and it beats the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 in 3DMark Vantage. The R700 card is basically made up of two RV770 GPUs with 2x256-bit memory interface to either GDDR3 or GDDR5 memories. We asked our sources about R700 in Computex and apparently AMD is going to let AIB partners to decide the specs themselves. Therefore, the partners will set their own clock speeds, PCB design, memory types, cooler solutions etc. and there will be Radeon HD 4850 X2 and 4870 X2 cards differentiate by the memory type. The R700 card apparently doing pretty well at this stage scoring about X5500 in 3DMark Vantage Extreme preset while the GeForce GTX 280 card is scoring X4800. Both sides are still working hard on optimizing their drivers for the new architecture so probably we will see the performance to improve over time.MC AMD: http://video.google.ca/videopl...

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