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Jigar |
If Radeon HD 3850 X2 is available under $ 200, then there is nothing that can touch AMD in price and performance.
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#22, The OP said "if".
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Flying Fox
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derFunkenstein |
So many manufacturers paired the 3850 with 512MB of memory that it's inevitably they'll make a 3850 X2 with 1GB, and if they have any brains, at a significant discount to the 3870 X2. A 3850 overclocks closer to 3870 speeds, so it *may* stand to reason that 3850 X2's will overclock close to 3870 X2 speeds. That'd be a decent card to stand up to the 8800GTS 512, for example.
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Flying Fox |
As I mention in the shortbread comments, yields improve == more lower speed parts? Does this make any sense?
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#9, not the first.
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grantmeaname
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green |
maybe this is a sign of things to come then?
at 45nm go with 4 gpu's, at 32nm go with 8 gpu's, etc it would effectively mean they stop producing efficient monolithic processors instead they'd concentrate on improving crossfire/sli performance each gpu handling 1/nth of the screen to render or in the case of 2d mode, shutting off gpu's |
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flip-mode |
I'm still watching for the supposed price drop that was supposed to occur last week. It sure hasn't hit yet.
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PrincipalSkinner |
I thought they had high yields from the start. And what is 3850 X2 good for? Nothing it seems.
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Silus |
A dual GPU card with a total of 512 MB of VRAM (256 MB each GPU) ?
I wonder who will buy it... The 1 GB card might be good, but it should be essentially a downclocked HD 3870 X2, much like the HD 3850 is exactly the same as a HD 3870 with lower clocks. But the price tag is not very appealing... |
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SecretMaster |
Why release a 3850X2 card in May when the supposed 4xxx series is right around the corner?
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