AMD Unveils "Fastest Graphics Card Ever"

Posted by Stephen Johnson - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:48 AM

Good news for PC gamers with money in their pockets: AMD announced the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, purported to be the fastest ever! Minesweeper will never be the same!

The card producers 2.4 teraFLOPS of power by combining two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs into one card. Add and 2GB of onboard memory and you're playing with power, son.

The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 is available now for $549. Expensive, yes, but still, can you imagine playing Crysis fully boosted, details and screaming with speed?

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Tags: PC Gaming, Tech, Videogames

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Posted by cmdluke - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:06 AM

me want! me want!

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Posted by clalansingh - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:18 AM

=o wow thats awesome-- but i think i'll wait for nvidia to release their competitor before i uprgrade my pc ;)

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Posted by koolboricua - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:23 AM

im a gamer myself and i love building computer, but geez is like every 6months there is a new product, making anything you already have old as the day go by. gives us a break where we can feel we have something great in our room. i kno i speak for myself only, since there are plenty of people who will just keep buyin n spending like there is no tomorrow for maybe just 5-10fps more, can you really tell the different? our humans eyes are not getting any better as the component do, but heck those that can do it, all power to u, ill always love to build and upgrade pc but as time really calls for it

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Posted by insight2881 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:32 AM

Consoles should get graphics cards, I'll buy it!

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Posted by ThataUFO - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:34 AM

@cmdluke

took the word right out of my mouth.

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Posted by Jamagh - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:44 AM

Mvidia FTW. I had one of those ATI cards in my last computer. Ran like crap. Lots of choppiness. Put in the nvidia. Worked fine.

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Posted by tr00p3r - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:50 AM

damn!

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Posted by Pastry_Back - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:04 AM

It's pointless to spent the cash on this, for a little over half the price you could get a video card that runs Crysis on high settings, when a game actually does need a card like this to run well, the price will be lower and a new video card will take its place. But I guess AMD and nVidia know that people will buy the newest/best stuff if they've got the money.

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Posted by Pastry_Back - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:06 AM

I meant ATI not AMD, ATI actually makes the cards, AMD just owns ATI.

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Posted by Nezacant - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:37 AM

@Jamagh:

Remind me to come to you for all of my video rendering technical advice.

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Posted by enzospartan - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:34 PM

i've had one of these for quite a while now. you may know it as a ps3.

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Posted by ndullum - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:09 PM

i want too...

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Posted by mercisan - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:02 PM

@koolboricua

You are not alone. I've decided to run my 6600 GT for at least two years more. I got sick of upgrading. Of course that means no pc gaming. Which is totally ok with me. I prefer to play on my consoles, with a big kick ass tv.

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Posted by GamerNx - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:06 PM

nVidia dosnt support SLI on intell's new SKULLTRAIL board due to the intell/nvidia war. In performance tests this card out performed nvidia's gtx 280 card and supports crossfire on the skulltrail board, allowing far greater perfomance than nvidia will ever have untill they get their heads out of their arses

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