uhhhh it is large
thx for info

Should beat 9800GX2.

Interesting that they are using 4 DDR chips per GPU as opposed to 8 on the single 4870.... they are obviously 128 MB rather than 64MB chips....leaves the door open for a future 1 GB 4870 card though.

I love it...

technogiant, im not sure how u just saw 4 ddr chips per gpu, there r ddr ram each side of the card which is 8 ddr chips per gpu = 16pcs total

it should but we have not seen any real performance from a single 4870
we can only guess

I'm counting 16 memory chips, 8 per side. There have been rumors that this card treats it's memory as a single frame buffer.

only time will tell.. but i hope and think that this card will kill nvidia's 280

Interesting that they are using 4 DDR chips per GPU as opposed to 8 on the single 4870.... they are obviously 128 MB rather than 64MB chips....leaves the door open for a future 1 GB 4870 card though.
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4 chips on the front, 4 on the back, 8 total per GPU

DUDES i really think you failled your maths at high school !

8 memory chips are dedicated for each cores...
SO 16 in total on the board

if we say it's an 1gb version

1024/16 = 64 mb chips

Edit: Nice black board

AND HELL WHY WE SEE THE LOGO OF AMD INSTEAD OF ATI

Oh I see, sorry guys my mistake, never taken one of these apart, I thought the chips you can see on the back were just like seated in a hole in the pcb and sort of sticking through the pcb...if you see what I mean...my mistake...

I liked the red boards , they are a trade mark of ATi and yeah why the AMD logo instead of ATi ????

I'm interested in what this means to the cards performance, I've read that this will cause it to be seen as a single gpu card by the system....it will be great if it has none of the shortcomings of crossfire.

I understand they are using a new connection chip to to this....so here's an idea....if this new cross linking chip does produce huge advantage by making crossfire invisible..then could they not put this chip onto a sort of pcb crossfire bridge to allow several graphics cards to be linked in crossfire which would be invisible to the system?

does this use ddr5 for the mem like the single gpu version?

As i can see on the picture yes

Here the infos of the R700

Technology : 55nm
Die Size : 256 nm
ROPS: 16
Shaders : 800 (Unified)
Pixel Fillrate : 12.0 GPixel/s
Memory Type : GDDR5
Memory Size : 1024 MB
Bus interface : PCI-E 2.0
Dx Support 10.1 SM 4.1
Texture Fillrate 24.0 GTextel/s
Bus Width : 256 Bytes
Bandwith : 57.6 GB/S

Initial GPU Clock : 750 Mhz
Initial Memory clock : 750 Mhz

Overclocked gpu : 900 Mhz
Overclocked memory : 900 Mhz
(score of gpu in 3dmark vantage : 12526 in CFx (2 cards))
(Total score X12515)

ATI is AMD. I don't see any reason to whine about.

Because AMD owns ATi? Its not all that hard to work out.