Palit Multimedia has announced that it will begin shipments of its first HD 4870 X2 card next week.
Palit claims its Revolution 700 Deluxe will be the most powerful single graphics card on the planet, given that the card is built around the Radeon HD 4870 X2 architecture. Palit also claims its card will be the first custom Radeon HD 4870 X2 card on the market.
According to a Palit spokesman, the card will be priced at about $500 and will ship next week. It includes 2 Gbytes of GDDR-5 memory on board. While it is overclocked, Palit did not release the actual clock speeds. "Engineering has not settled on a shipping clock but it will be at least 750 MHz on the core and 3,800 MHz (DDR) for the memory," a Palit spokesman said.
According to Palit, the selling point of the card is the cooling system. Palit combined two pulse-width modulated low-noise fans with four heat pipes, which the company claims will adequately cool the card. As most cooling solutions do, the fan is sped up or slowed down, depending on the load put on the card.
Palit also claimed that its Revolution 700 Deluxe supports DisplayPort, HDMI, Dual-link DVI, and D-Sub (VGA), a first.
AMD boasted that the Radeon HD 4870 X2 architecture was the fastest card in the world when it was announced in September. Since then, ATI's reference design has been reviewed, and an MSI version card has been stacked up against a CrossFire implementation as well as a GeForce GTX 260.
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November 6, 2008 10:46 AM
The Radeon 4870 x2 is the card I'm planning to install in the Nehalem rig I'm currently piecing together. :D
I have to admit though, I'm curious as to how close to $500 this card is going to be - other traditional 4870 x2s run a little north of $500, and I've been waiting for them to come down under, hopefully around the holidays, before picking one up. Heck, I might even do Crossfire if the price is right!
Anyway, this is pretty solid - every benchmark I've seen puts the 4870 x2 ahead of competing Nvidia cards, and the fact that Crossfire allows me to keep my dual monitor goodness while gaming is a win too - still curious how this card will stack up to its peers though!
November 7, 2008 1:39 AM
@ alan h
That isn't a fair comparison since the ATI 4870 X2 runs two cores. Google the various reviews of this card and you may just change your mind regarding this card in favor of two Nvidia Core 250s in SLI + Physx tech. Just a thought...