28.09.2009 06:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Prototype of a Radeon HD 5870X2

While the Radeon HD 5870 has officially be unveiled last week, and if currently the fastest single GPU graphic card in its class, a prototype featuring 2 GPU already exists as illustrated by those photos published by xtremesystems.org. Of course, few details are available about this "monster", but for sure it would dramatically boost Open CL-based tasks with Snow Leopard. However, so far it is only a dream or a phantasm, as Apple never supported so far dual GPU graphic cards. One can already with Leopard use some tricks to make use of a dual GPU card, however the system recognize it as two independent single GPU cards, so it will not offer graphic acceleration, but

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