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AMD Launches 55-nm ATI Radeon GPU

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Gigacore
Gigacore Original post #1
Feb 2, 2008 at 5:42 PM
AMD's 55-nanometer ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is the first graphics processor to break the teraflop barrier.

AMD Wednesday announced the immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics processor, expanding the visual boundaries of PC entertainment well beyond the 1080P High Definition (HD) threshold. The industry's first graphics processor to break the Teraflop (one trillion floating point operations per second) barrier, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 nearly doubles the performance of the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 3870 introduced in November 2007.

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nvidia
nvidia #2
Feb 2, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Thanks for the info giga:)

AMD-ATI rocks!
But Intel rocks even more :|
Gigacore
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM
intel rockx
nvidia
nvidia #4
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM
But someday in the future AMD will beat Intel... :D
S
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM
when is this beaty coming to India??
I need one!!
nvidia
nvidia #6
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Maybe it will come after a month or so... :)
Gigacore
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:34 PM
it takes many decades for AMD to beat Intel.. lol.. unless they start working on more stable CPUs.
nvidia
nvidia #8
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM
The fusion thing will improve AMDs condition i hope..
RCuber
RCuber #10
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM
@giga & nvidia : CTC guys :|.

Whats the Crysis score :D
Gigacore
Gigacore #11
Feb 2, 2008 at 8:59 PM
CTC ?

wats that dude ?
Gigacore
Gigacore #13
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:02 PM
^ i thought

Charan, the Crap
RCuber
RCuber #14
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:05 PM
^^ come on man , stick to topic.

Will this beat the upcomming nvidia cards?
Gigacore
Gigacore #15
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:07 PM
ok.. i will CTC...

yeah maybe.. but still we cant say, coz we dont wat are counter measures taking place in nVidia labs a.k.a R&D
sachin_kothari
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:13 PM
what will be its approx price?
nvidia
nvidia #17
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:31 PM
More thank 10k for sure... :(
S
sumchamp #18
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:54 PM
price is around 23k-24k
Gigacore
Gigacore #19
Feb 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM
^ source ?
x3060
x3060 #20
Feb 3, 2008 at 12:20 AM
hmm . . all there cards are so tempting , i wish i had more money :-(
nvidia
nvidia #21
Feb 3, 2008 at 3:31 PM
^^Even if you had more money, the card would be outdated in less than 6 months :|
Gigacore
Gigacore #22
Feb 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM
drool over newer one :p
C
cooldude1 #23
Feb 3, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Its already Available in India for 25900/- See here!!

There's a Deal too -

Combos

Actual Price - Rs 28050/-
Combo Price - Rs 26900/-
and get a Corsair Voyager 8GB with the purchase

For those who are gonna buy a PSU with it , heres another fabulous deal

Actual Price - Rs 32900/-
Combo Price - Rs 29900/- with a Tagan BZ 700 Modular PSU with the purchase


Also 8800GT MSI 512MB DDR3 Oc Edition Price Reduced - 13500/-
nvidia
nvidia #24
Feb 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Any idea bout the power consumption of this 55 nm GPU?
C
cooldude1 #25
Feb 3, 2008 at 6:49 PM
I guess It should work fine with Tagan 700W or Corsair HX620W.
nvidia
nvidia #26
Feb 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM
^^No i mean how many watts of power will it use?
C
cooldude1 #27
Feb 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM
^^No idea. I guess you'll find more info in reviews n all
dOm1naTOr
dOm1naTOr #28
Feb 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM
55nmGPUs made it to shelves on Dec 07 with HD 3xxx series. And already a thread goin on for 3870 X2
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78077&page=3
And 3870 X2 has even made it to India shelves Its on itwares....nd link is provided by cooldude