HD 4870 X2 ready by August, has 2gig of ram.

The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August. It
will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. It is expected to be priced around
$499 US.

See a small article at: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html

And to make matters more interesting, nVidia is expected to offer
GDDR5-equipped cards in Q4 2008, and a new DX10.1 GPU in Q1 2009.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38247/135/

Competition is good.

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"William" <nospam@pacifier.com> wrote in message
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> The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August.
> It will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. It is expected to be priced
> around $499 US.
>
> See a small article at: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html
>

William wrote:
> The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August. It
> will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. It is expected to be priced around
> $499 US.
>
> See a small article at: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html

I would worry about quality of its driver.... unless you don't plan to
use Vi$ta.

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In article <UuydnQk_CoIT4PDVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@giganews.com>, "First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>And to make matters more interesting, nVidia is expected to offer
>GDDR5-equipped cards in Q4 2008, and a new DX10.1 GPU in Q1 2009.
>http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38247/135/
>
>Competition is good.
>
And if they keep pricing this **** so high, sales with be bad!!!

"William" <nospam@pacifier.com> wrote in message
newsbWdncVB0-R-r_DVnZ2dnUVZ_sjinZ2d@posted.palinacquisition...
> The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August.
> It will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. It is expected to be priced
> around $499 US.
>
> See a small article at: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html
>

That 2GB is going to take a big chunk of the 4GB of virtual memory space
on systems running 32 bit OS's, unless they have a work around that
only 1GB is mapped in at a time. No problem for 64 bit OS's.

On Jul 4, 2:09*am, glenzabr@nospam,xmission.com (GMAN) wrote:
> In article <UuydnQk_CoIT4PDVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dn...@giganews.com>, "First of One" <r...@127.0.0.1> wrote:>And to make matters more interesting, nVidia is expected to offer
> >GDDR5-equipped cards in Q4 2008, and a new DX10.1 GPU in Q1 2009.
> >http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38247/135/
>
> >Competition is good.
>
> And if they keep pricing this **** so high, sales with be bad!!!

I think you will find this isn't high compared to the best nVidia
cards of just a few months back. In fact the 9800 GX2 with 1GB of DDR3
RAM is about the same price, and all indications are that the 4870 x2
will perform much better.

So while I am not in the market, I don't think the price is
outrageous.

James

nVidia just lowered the price of the GTX280 by about $100, only days after
launch.

Newegg has it now for $520, includes Assassin's Creed:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150309

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<glenzabr@nospam>; <xmission.com (GMAN)> wrote in message
news:g4ker0$cs$1@news.xmission.com...
> In article <UuydnQk_CoIT4PDVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@giganews.com>, "First of One"
> <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>And to make matters more interesting, nVidia is expected to offer
>>GDDR5-equipped cards in Q4 2008, and a new DX10.1 GPU in Q1 2009.
>>http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38247/135/
>>
>>Competition is good.
>>
> And if they keep pricing this **** so high, sales with be bad!!!

ATI Vista drivers are actually a tad more mature than nVida Vista drivers...

The 4870 isn't architecturally that different from the 3870. It just has
more shader and texture units.

I believe you also need Vista to do CrossfireX or 3-way SLI efficiently.
Something about a limitation in the number of buffered frames in XP.

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"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:486d8dd0@127.0.0.1...
> I would worry about quality of its driver.... unless you don't plan to use
> Vi$ta.

* William:
> The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August. It
> will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. It is expected to be priced around
> $499 US.
>
> See a small article at: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html
>
>

Let's hope this means there'll be a 1GB 4870.

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On Jul 4, 3:12*pm, DerekBaker <De...@DontBother.com> wrote:
> * William:
>
> > The release of the HD 4870x2 is scheduled to be by the first of August. *It
> > will have 2gb of GDDR5 memory on it. *It is expected to be priced around
> > $499 US.
>
> > See a small article at:http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080702PD213.html
>
> Let's hope this means there'll be a 1GB 4870.
>
> --
> Derek


Apparently there will be a 1GB, GDDR3 version of R700 / 4870 X2
(calling it 4850 X2 seems more fitting though) coming sometime after
the highend 2GB, GDDR5 4870 X2.



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