Graphic cards AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2

Hello everybody and wellcome to AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 card is AMD's answer to NVIDIA's flagship GeForce GTX 280 card in terms of pricing and placement. Even though NVIDIA recently dropped a bomb and lowered the price of the GeForce GTX 280 from $649 to $499, the estimated pricing we have seen for AMD's card is in the above $500 range and will likely fall on the lower end of that open ended range now. Isn't competition a wonderful thing? The card continues in the tradition of long PCB's, matching the size of the Radeon HD 3870 X2 as well as the GeForce 9800 GX2 design. The cooler for the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is of course a two slot design.

While note completely enclosed like NVIDIA dual-GPU cards, the back of the card has a thing metal heatsink plate that, coupled with the all-black look of the PCB, is actually pretty cool looking. Though the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is much heavier, it about the same size as the GeForce 9800 GX2 card. There is just a single CrossFire connector on the Radeon HD 4870 X2 card that will allow you to connect either one or two single GPU Radeon HD 4870 cards or one more Radeon HD 4870 X2 for quad CrossFireX support. Unfortunately we only got a single card for this preview so testing quad was out of the question for now.