29.01.2008 11:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

AMD Released the Fastest Consumer-oriented Graphic Card

Yesterday, with the release of the Radeon HD 3870 X2, ATI/AMD took the trophy of for the fastest consumer-oriented graphic card back home. As illustrated by its name, this card is powered by two RV 670 GPU engraved at 55nm, and supported by 512MB of VRAM for each. While it seems that ATI/AMD was a bit late in delivering optimized drivers for this card, performance level are in line with the expected raw power, at least when comparing it for the NVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. Thanks to the 55nm engraving process, ATI/AMD could maintain power consumption lower than 200W, an already amazing draining source for the PSU. Chances we get such double GPUs card in a Mac are quite low, as its performance levels are directly linked to optimized drivers to split computing request over the 2 GPUs, while synchronizing tasks and output. Indeed, Apple can not even get optimized drivers for the GPU installed in our Mac [translation by Linathael]

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