Official Release of the HD3870X2

Written by Chris Hunter

Maintaining the intended schedule, AMD released information today on the ATi Radeon HD 3870X2. The press release states an immediate availability of the possible NVIDIA contender. Rick Bergman, who is senior vice president and general manager of the Graphics Product Group at AMD, stated:

"PC gaming enthusiasts demand the ultimate in performance and scalability for their HD gaming experience and the ATI Radeon 3870 X2 sets the standard by which all should be compared in this segment..." he added "With this launch we reaffirm our commitment to enthusiast performance leadership and send a clear message that the ATI Radeon 3870 X2 is the new gold standard of the PC gaming world."

Newegg.com has the ATi Radeon HD 3870X2 available at the expected retail cost of 449USD. They have five brands available with four of them in stock now. The cheapest 8800 Ultra at this time is 629USD, with most sitting closer to 700USD. NVIDIA should react fast, if they hope to compete. The good news is this should drive down the prices of all video cards. Most other retail sites have the card's value set at around 500USD, or they did not carry the card. Newegg has the cheapest price so far, which is MSRP.

Diamond has a lower core clock of 775MHz and there are two versions available: 1024MB and 512MB. Sapphire also shows this slower clock rate in their version. The HIS and ASUS versions look to be standard reference design and run at 825MHz. The VisionTek brand is not in stock. Most of the branded websites lack any information on the cards, but this is normal for a release day.

ASUS has an upgraded version available that is labeled the 3DHTI (vs. HTDI) and utilizes two RV670XT GPUs, .8ns memory (vs. 1ns), and two extra DVI ports (total 4). Depending on the price difference, ASUS may have the best option available. We have yet to find a 3DHTI version for sale, but we will keep the updates flowing.

	Radeon HD3870X2		Radeon HD3870	Radeon HD2900XT
Core Code	R680	RV670		R600
Process	55nm	55nm		80nm
Core Transistors	1,300,000,000	666,000,000		700,000,000
Clock Frequency	825MHz	775MHz		740MHz
Memory	GDDR3	GDDR4		GDDR3
Memory Interface	256-bit X2	256-bit		256-bit
Total Memory	512MB X2	512MB		256MB/512MB
Memory Frequency	1800MHz	2252MHz		740MHz
Texture Units	32	16		16
Render Back-Ends	32	16		16
Stream Processors	640	320		320
Processing Power	1 Teraflop	497Gigaflops		495Gigaflops
Shader model	4.1	4.1		4
DirectX	10.1	10.1		10.0
Multi-GPU	CrossfireX	CrossfireX		Crossfire
UVD(HD)	Yes	Yes		No
ATi PowerPlay	Yes	Yes		No

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