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info from AMD on the 4870 X2 below:
Double the performance you would get from a GeForce GTX 280 on Skulltrail, they?re fast! In fact, on Skulltrail, they?re more than twice as fast in 3Dmark Vantage as a single GeForce GTX 280. ATI?s name for this GPU ought to be ?Butt-Kicking Benchmark Buster? because these dual-GPU cards are fast.
http://www.maximumpc.com/artic...vealedpart_three_three
The verdict
The verdict is that the new ATI Radeon 4860 and Radeon 4870 deliver stunning performance at an extremely compelling price. If you?ve been waiting to upgrade to a DirectX10 compatible graphics card, now is the time. For less than the price of an Xbox 360, you can upgrade your GPU and get kick-ass gaming performance on most modern PCs.
Smaller GPU ? Big Workloads
What?s more, ATI is kissing the giant GPU goodbye, preferring smaller, more efficient GPUs that work in tandem with big workloads. We?ve walked this path before, says Maximum PC, when Intel?s NetBurst architecture reached the end of its life, we were seeing the largest, hottest, most power-hungry GPUs ever, but performance wasn?t scaling in line with power and heat increases.
Multi-core design
In order to see a 10 percent performance boost, the new CPU would generate 30 percent more heat and require 30 percent more power. This was an untenable situation, so Intel and AMD quickly moved away from monolithic cores to more efficient multi-core designs. If your application can take advantage of all the CPU cores in your system, you should see significantly better performance with much slower, cooler multi-core designs that you would with a similar-size single-core design running at twice the speed.
More speed, lower price
The two main GPU manufactures are at a similar crossroads, but each chose a different direction with its new generation of GPU. ATI?s new design in the Radeon 4870 is delivering about 75 percent of the speed of the GTX 289 in most of our benchmarks, says Maximum PC and for a fraction of the price. Read the full Maximum PC article.
Double the performance you would get from a GeForce GTX 280 on Skulltrail, they?re fast! In fact, on Skulltrail, they?re more than twice as fast in 3Dmark Vantage as a single GeForce GTX 280. ATI?s name for this GPU ought to be ?Butt-Kicking Benchmark Buster? because these dual-GPU cards are fast.
http://www.maximumpc.com/artic...vealedpart_three_three
The verdict
The verdict is that the new ATI Radeon 4860 and Radeon 4870 deliver stunning performance at an extremely compelling price. If you?ve been waiting to upgrade to a DirectX10 compatible graphics card, now is the time. For less than the price of an Xbox 360, you can upgrade your GPU and get kick-ass gaming performance on most modern PCs.
Smaller GPU ? Big Workloads
What?s more, ATI is kissing the giant GPU goodbye, preferring smaller, more efficient GPUs that work in tandem with big workloads. We?ve walked this path before, says Maximum PC, when Intel?s NetBurst architecture reached the end of its life, we were seeing the largest, hottest, most power-hungry GPUs ever, but performance wasn?t scaling in line with power and heat increases.
Multi-core design
In order to see a 10 percent performance boost, the new CPU would generate 30 percent more heat and require 30 percent more power. This was an untenable situation, so Intel and AMD quickly moved away from monolithic cores to more efficient multi-core designs. If your application can take advantage of all the CPU cores in your system, you should see significantly better performance with much slower, cooler multi-core designs that you would with a similar-size single-core design running at twice the speed.
More speed, lower price
The two main GPU manufactures are at a similar crossroads, but each chose a different direction with its new generation of GPU. ATI?s new design in the Radeon 4870 is delivering about 75 percent of the speed of the GTX 289 in most of our benchmarks, says Maximum PC and for a fraction of the price. Read the full Maximum PC article.
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