Good: Huge performance – when it works, It seems to work most of the time
Bad: Dependent on Crossfire driver profiles, Big, hot and very power hungry
Bottomline: Need some extra speed? Just bung on a few more cores. Thats the prevailing philosophy guiding the development of PC processors these days. In truth, its a pretty effective approach and seems to be the only viable option for making the most of the eve...
Abstract: 3D is intrinsically parallel. We find parallelism at the level at which data is manipulated (4 component vector), but also with the instructions applied to that data. GPU manufacturers have understood that fact well and it’s around this main idea (w...
Bottomline: Turning back the clock a little over a week and thinking about our first day testing the 3870 X2 we remember that the overall opinion on the product was one of utter disappointment. Regardless of how good the card was on paper and how competitively pr...
Abstract: The new speed king gives a much-needed boost to ATiin the high-end race. ATi has adopted a different approachto Nvidia for its most recent top-end graphics card. Rather than coming up with a completely new GPU from scratch to compete with the supe...
Abstract: A mighty dual-GPU board that makes light work of even todays toughest DirectX 10 games The Radeon brand has a long and proud history, but for the past year ATi - the graphical wing of AMD - has been playing catch-up, while rival Nvidia has set the pa...
Bottomline: The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is definitely a powerful card, however it could be more powerful once more companies and software developers support this powerful product. Its good to see that ATI have reached the levels of NVIDIA once again and if I had t...
Abstract: This concludes the DX9 section. To sum up our results: Good performance: Call of Duty 4(this one also shows the best scaling to QuadCF out of all the games tested), S.T.A.L.K.E.R., HL2:Lost Coast and UT3 Medium performance: The Witcher with a single X...
Abstract: With DirectX 10.1 support & great performance the HD 3870X2 will be perfect for gamers, though HD3870 will face stiff competition from nVIDIA\'s 9600GT..
Bottomline: The GeForce 9800 GX2 certainly is an impressive performer. That said, we really expected nothing less from a product that takes two GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics cards and sticks them together. Then on top of that, when asking $600 US for a graphics ca...
Abstract: Quad CrossFireX is appealing from a technical hardware enthusiast standpoint. However, it doesn’t exactly produce the gameplay experience advantages needed to live up to the price tag required. The one game that really needs it, doesn’t u...
Bottomline: There is no doubt that ATIs Radeon HD 3870 X2 is definitely a technically achievement with one of the first cards weve seen with two major GPUs together on the same PCB and not rather two PCBs stuck together. It resolves many of the issues weve seen...
Abstract: ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card proved to be a really popular option for performance-mainstream market. But AMD wants to target the high-end using the same technology, but this time with two ATI RV670 chips. Let’s find out whether the new ATI Radeo...
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