AMD touts the ATI Radeon HD 4870 x2 as the 'world's fastest graphics card'

AMD touts the ATI Radeon HD 4870 x2 as the 'world's fastest graphics card'**

**today

Now I remember why my computer can't play the latest games. Stuff is expensive.

I have a laptop :(.

ATI is a joke.

That picture is not the Radeon HD 4870 X2...

Good review here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=605&type=expert

right, world's fastest, for about two weeks...

And yet the architecture of the 360's GPU enables better video processing than the RSX does. TeraFLOPS are simple a measure of the RAW power of the card, not a measure of it's graphical ability. Much more determines how well a GPU works including it's architecture, drivers, and software used. AMD can tout this figure as much as it wants, but it doesn't guarantee better performance. Until there are proper drivers for this card (something that ATi has always struggled with) it won't ever need that much power and probably won't be able to match nVidia's far superior drivers or software support.

Just imagine by tomorrow you'll have to edit this cause something knew will have been crowned fastest in the world.

"Combining two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs into a single card..."

This thing is just 2 4800 GPUs duct-taped together!

Uh, Intel doesn't own nVidia.

Maybe. In a few months it'll probably be $200.

I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Ps3 has NOWHERE NEAR that teraflop level of graphical processing power.

http://dpad.gotfrag.com/portal/story/35372/?spage=7

From the article:

"The GPU inside the PS3 is NV47 based which is another name for the 7800GTX. It has 24 pixel shader pipelines and 8 vertex shader pipelines"

"PC videocards such as the X1900XTX have far more raw horsepower than either of the 2 videocards in either console and is pushing a GPU clock speed of up to 650MHZ (some have shipped at 675MHZ) along with 24 more pixel shader pipelines and yet the X1900XTX is just over 500GFLOPS so to even begin entertaining the thought that a less advanced GPU with significantly less raw power could brute force 1.3 teraflops better performance is wishful thinking"

1.8 teraflops is 100% marketing BS. The 360 gpu on the other hand is a different story.

"This GPU here inside the Xbox 360 is literally an early ATI R600, which when released by ATI for the pc will be a Directx 10 GPU. Xenos ias clocked at 500MHZ and that it has 48 unified shader pipelines along with a polygon performance of 500 Million triangles a second. Microsoft said the 360’s GPU could perform 48 billion shader operations per second back in 2005. However Bob Feldstein, VP of engineering for ATI, made it very clear that the 360’s GPU can perform 2 of those shaders per cycle so the 360’s GPU is actually capable of 96 billion shader operations per second."

The Ati R600 is equivalent to an 8800GT graphics card, pretty much on of the best cards on the market at a great price.

Actually saying that ati/amd is 1st to market with a 2gb is wrong, what about the nvidia quadro fx 4700 x2? it has been out for a bit, but it costs $3000.

(i may get one for the hell of it just to see what crysis runs like on it).

:)

I used to think the same way. I was always an Nvidia fanboy. Until i realised the HD4870 is only 5% slower than the 280GTX for about half the price. It's a joke to go with Nvidia these days. Yes the 280GTX is pretty much the most powerful card on the market except the card listed in this article, but for half the price you lose only 5% of the power. I've got a lovely 9600gt in my PC at the moment, soon to jump over to a HD4850. ATI have lagged behine Nvidia for so long that its hard for people to realise they're so close they are to Nvidias power now for half the price.

Will there be a gtx 280 x2?

Btw RSX gets 1.8 teraflops combined with Cell BE.

Glad I got outta PC gaming looong ago.. Too much investment for such little return.

Long live PC gaming! : )

PC gaming is NOT expensive unless you are dumb. You can get a video card that can play Crysis(or any other game) quite well for $100 these days. In fact at any given point a $100 video card can almost always play any game on the market acceptably(up until recently Crysis had been the one exception to that rule.)
The existence of $400+ video cards is always cited as proof that PC gaming is expensive but the only thing it is proof of is that some people have much more money than they need.

I had a 3870x2. I have a 4870. The 4870x2 will be mine.

hey console guys
this card smokes both high performance consoles. in a year, it'll be way cheaper and you know what
it'll still smoke both high performance consoles

The only thing noteworthy here is how big an upset this was to nVidia's pricing. nVidia was going crazy with their prices and diversity of models, and didn't see ATI coming with such a performance punch at these prices. nVidia will really have to streamline their product line, now, which is what they *said* they were going to do a while ago.

its 20-30% more proficient at some things over the 300+ NV 88XXX, its a good design and great for ATI to have something that can match some of NVs more advanced stuff if not outpace it, but....... all this just means they are back to being neck and neck.....