Daily Archive for August 13th, 2008

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

OK, Is it wrong to be turned on by this hunk of hi-tech kit? It is amongst the most over the top, powerful cards I’ve ever set my eyes on! Featuring a colossal 1.91 Billion transistor count, and a dual 256 bit memory interface giving you a gigantic 230GB/sec of memory bandwidth it certainly packs a  punch against modern graphics cards.  It is a greedy bugger though demanding in excess of 280 watts of power!

That sexy slab of PCB contains 16×128mb GDDR5 DRAM chips, so thats 8 per GPU!  - 2GB in total. No dual GPU board has had me this excited! Nom nom!

Review @ Anandtech