For those who like 20k 3DMark06 scores.

[dennilfloss]

http://www.vr-zone.com/article...rk06/5325.html#Scene_1

Fudzilla reported that AMD plans to introduce a dual chip card called Radeon HD 2950X2X and it will have two RV670 chips on a single PCB. They called this dual GPU solution R670. On the other hand, we are still hearing R680 from our sources but both of us could be referring to the same thing. We even heard faintly that R680 could be AMD's ambitious plan to integrate two RV670 into a single die, if not on the same package.

VR-Zone has got hold of a presentation slide recently that gave some clues that R680 is a dual GPU (RV670 slide shows only one GPU pic). Our good buddy, CJ told us R680 is indeed a dual RV670 solution and is 1.5X faster than a Radeon HD 2900 XT in Crossfire. Another source told us that R680 could reach 20K in 3DMark06 or rather the target AMD is trying to achieve.

E-penis++ ??:laugh:

 

[CrystalBay]

most excellent ! 111

 

[wrangler]

Wonder if these will require Crossfire board?

 

[SilentAssassin]

sounds too good to be true, but when would this come out?

 

[Sylvanas]

Mmmm 55nm dual GPU card cant wait 😛.

 

[ronnn]

ATi is really stoking expectations this time around. Hope it don't bite them in the butt.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: SilentAssassin
sounds too good to be true, but when would this come out?

not too good to be true, in fact it is very believable. DAAMIT is intent on doing SOMETHING well, so maybe they can pick on nvidia for a while. Unfortunately, they will probably come out with this card 6 months after a faster nvidia card arrives 🙁

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: wrangler
Wonder if these will require Crossfire board?

Why would it? It's on 1 pcb.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: wrangler
Wonder if these will require Crossfire board?

Why would it? It's on 1 pcb.

I remember seeing an article a while back on the how the dual GPU X1900 pro or something did not run on 'non Crossfire certified' boards because it used an internal 8x8 crossfire interface on the PCB itself (from the 1 16x slot) and thus if you ran it on, say a 680i based SLI board it would refuse to work in dual GPU mode because the Nvidia based board does not support Crossfire be it with 2 cards in 2 separate slots or the use of a Crossfire communication interface on the card itself.

 

[dennilfloss]

Crap. My mobo is SLI instead of Crossfire.:frown:

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: wrangler
Wonder if these will require Crossfire board?

Why would it? It's on 1 pcb.

I remember seeing an article a while back on the how the dual GPU X1900 pro or something did not run on 'non Crossfire certified' boards because it used an internal 8x8 crossfire interface on the PCB itself (from the 1 16x slot) and thus if you ran it on, say a 680i based SLI board it would refuse to work in dual GPU mode because the Nvidia based board does not support Crossfire be it with 2 cards in 2 separate slots or the use of a Crossfire communication interface on the card itself.

That's not on 1 pcb is it? More like 2 cards sandwiched into 1.

Think of this like voodoo 5 5500. Long as you have PCI-E slot you should be good to go.

Now if you wanted to crossfire 2 r680 you probably need a crossfire board.