The 9800GTX Triple SLI has been tested over at
TweakTown. They have it compared to two 9800GX2 and against 9800GTX SLI. It only managed to beat the 980GX2 in some of the tests. This means that Nvidia ha managed to get their Dual GPU card with some good drivers, not like the 7950GX2. Read more and check out the 9800GTX at:
The 9800GTX has been tested early over at
TweakTown. They did not test it compared to any 8800GTS 512, but it is basically the same thing. People were complaining that the 9800GTX is the 8800GTS 512 with 2 power connectors and an extra SLI connection for Tri-sli. Anyway lets get down to business. The 9800GTX was able to sometimes compete on par with is buddy, 9800GX2, and faster than the 8800GT by a fair margin. The 9800GTX is going to stop the production of the 8800GTS 512, but it is still not the card that people were expecting to be 3 times faster than the 8800GTX. Read more over at:
The first AMD Quad cores were somewhat not providing what people expected. They still did not beat Intels first series of cheap cores(i.e Q6600). Also the AMD cores were pummeled with the TLB bug which rendered performance and gave people a reason not to go to AMD cores. AMD tries to countered that with a new revision, Phenom X4 9550, 9650, 9750 and 9850 models running at 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5GHz.
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The final early specs for the new Radeon 4000 series. Their new series is going to be 55nm architecture and at the top will be then 4870X2. It is the same idea as the 3870X2, but with two RV770 cores using GDDR5 memory. The core clock for the 4870X2 is insane! Supposedly going to be 1050mhz and the memory at 1800mhz.
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Andreas G 27 March 2008 15:47
As we said so many times before, AMD loves multi-GPU and just keeps pushing for ways of combining several GPUs to compete with NVIDIA's more powerful single-GPU solutions. Earlier this month we reported about how AMD was planning to launch a new dual-GPU card called
Radeon HD 3850X2, and that it would arrive in late Q2, just in time for Computex. The exact specifications were unknown at the time, but it seems one of our forum users was right when he guessed that the memory might be cut in half.
Radeon HD 3850X2 will sport two RV670 cores running at a yet undetermined frequency, but most likely 668MHz. The memory buffer will be two sets of 256MB GDDR3 memory running at "only" 1.8GHz. However, overclocked versions and even versions with more memory should be expected from partners, which means that you might be able to find Radeon HD 3850X2 cards running at ~750-800MHz core and 1GB memory, perhaps also overclocked.
With the excellent yields, they can keep launching new cards that uses the same core, but in different ways and just start piling up money from the increased sales. The price will be slightly lower, somewhere in the $299-349 range.
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