AMD's Dual GPU Monster, The Radeon HD 3870 X2

MojoKid writes "AMD officially launched their new high-end flagship graphics card today and this one has a pair of graphics processors on a single PCB. The Radeon HD 3870 X2 was codenamed R680 throughout its development. Although that codename implies the card is powered by a new GPU, it is not. The Radeon HD 3870 X2 is instead powered by a pair of RV670 GPUs linked together on a single PCB by a PCI Express fan-out switch. In essence, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is "CrossFire on a card" but with a small boost in clock speed for each GPU as well. As the benchmarks and testing show, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is one of the fastest single cards around right now. NVIDIA is rumored to be readying a dual GPU single card beast as well."

Comments

Re:crossfire capable?

[gEvil (beta)]

Nice. I get modded down to -1 for legitimately asking if you'll be able to run a 4 core setup using two of these cards. Way to go guys!

Re:R680

[bob.appleyard]

In the 7th Century what we know as France today, along with the low countries and some of western Germany, was known as Francia and was ruled, at least in theory, by the Merovingian line of Frankish kings. This century saw the rise of the Carolingian dynasty within Francia, which reached their height in the late 8th and early 9th Centuries with the reign of Charlemagne.

Germany wasn't a single political entity until the 19th Century, and the Franks were Germanic, which is more of a group of identities, but as close as your going to get at this point in time.

Francia would form the basis of the Carolingian Empire, which would itself lead on to the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the most important political entities in Western Christendom throughout the High Middle Ages, when it was more usually thought of as a continuation of the Roman Empire in the West, even though it was nothing of the kind.

I did appreciate the joke, and I'm not being a pedant or anything. I just thought I'd share with you some of the history of the time. After the Volkerwanderungzeit, but before the second wave of barbarian invasions, this is a crucial period in the early formation of Europe.