AMD Radeon HD 4890 X2's Coming
AMD clarified with press late last week about the immediate future of its line of Radeon HD graphics products, particularly the HD 4870 X2. According to AMD, its partners are now being selected and prepped for validation of its next major part, the HD 4890 X2.
According to reports, the new card will have both GPUs running at least at 1 GHz core clock speed. Depending on the SKU, customers should be seeing 2 GB and 4 GB cards. The specs are not fully confirmed yet, but we'll let you know when we hear anything different.
Previously, AMD stated that there wasn't a real market need for something beyond the HD 4870 X2, since AMD thoroughly felt that its top of the line offering was already leading the competition. Also, as AMD's ultra high-end commands a significant price premium over, the target customer group is relatively small.
As of now, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295, a dual-GPU product, remains the cream of the crop for Nvidia. With the pending release of AMD's Radeon HD 4890 X2, a follow-up from Nvidia can surely be expected. More to come.
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anyone else seeing 2x8pin PCIe power?
According to ATI reps they are not even close to be able to make 4890X2 due to power consumption.
wont be long until we need cold fusion to power these things!!
this will easily be the top dog GPU. And agreed i bet in 2 years we'll all need fission reactors instead of PSUs
Tim Sonderman says in an interview with X-Bitlabs that it's not going to happen anytime soon...
Yes please
Now of they could tap that for Windows Movie Maker (+ some new fancy effects plug-ins), I'd grab it with open bank accounts.
It won't be long before well need a goat powered sausage riding a penny farthing to power these cards to supply a massive overload of bananas for our gaming needs.