Recently, we talked about the video card R680 merging two video chip RV670 and 2 x 512 MB GDDR-4 memory . The PLX chip performs the role of bridge. This layout increases the cost of video cards, such as the efficiency of this bridge is largely dependent on drivers.
Announcement Dates of next high end AMD product ( R700 ) is not determined, in the past road map AMD mentioned this card with 2009 platforms . Many computer games fans are concerned about the inevitability of high end graphics transition on dual chip layout. Associate reported that R700 can be a combination of two core in the same package.
The recommended value for Radeon HD 3870 X2 (R680) is very interesting : in the range from $ 299-349 for dual chip video card this sounds tempting. In any case, if AMD will sell R680 at a price below the cost of dual Radeon HD 3870, it will more resemble to a charity.
AMD is going to push CrossFire X in Intel platform using the chipset Intel P45, which will be available in the second quarter of the next year. This pair of chipsets supports PCI Express x16 slots version 2.0, working at x8 + x8. This will be sufficient for the installation of two video card R680, and the entire system will be support four video chip RV670 and 4 x 512 MB GDDR-4 video memory . This is an interesting platform Uniting Intel and AMD graphics card, a competitor for Spider platform. Related Products :
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