The AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 was launched over a month ago. This single video card contains two GPUs with CrossFire hardwired between them; “CrossFire on a card” if you will. Both GPUs are basically Radeon HD 3870 GPUs with an elevated clock speed of 825MHz versus 775MHz on a single Radeon HD 3870. Each GPU has access to 512MB of RAM on a 256-bit memory bus, the framebuffer is not shared. In our initial testing we found the performance of the Radeon HD 3870 X2 to come in slightly behind a single GeForce 8800 GTX. This still provided a high level of gameplay experience in Crysis, COD 4 and UT3 compared to a single Radeon HD 3870.
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Review: [H] Enthusiast
