- Jan 21, 2006
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Guru3D has a good review of this monster card
http://www.guru3d.com/article/...deluxe-4870-x2-review/
"The X2 cards that have been released will be available in many configurations. Board-partners are free in their choices. It surely does take them a while but you'll see X2 based cards with 4850 specific GDDR3 memory configurations and 4870 cards with a number of GDDR5 memory configurations. Example: you will see cards with 1GB, 2GB maybe even 4GB memory. You also need to be aware of that when purchasing the product that the memory will be cloned. If you purchase a 1 GB card, each GPU will get 512MB memory to work in. So in essence you have 512MB framebuffer with a 1 GB product. Very important."
So, each GPU gets 1 GB. That ... should be enough ?
It's practically a supercomputer that fits in a PCI-Express slot.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/...deluxe-4870-x2-review/
"The X2 cards that have been released will be available in many configurations. Board-partners are free in their choices. It surely does take them a while but you'll see X2 based cards with 4850 specific GDDR3 memory configurations and 4870 cards with a number of GDDR5 memory configurations. Example: you will see cards with 1GB, 2GB maybe even 4GB memory. You also need to be aware of that when purchasing the product that the memory will be cloned. If you purchase a 1 GB card, each GPU will get 512MB memory to work in. So in essence you have 512MB framebuffer with a 1 GB product. Very important."
So, each GPU gets 1 GB. That ... should be enough ?
It's practically a supercomputer that fits in a PCI-Express slot.