The old radeon hd 3870 x2 had a total interconnect bandwidth of just. Driver for ati radeon hd 4870 x2 radeon software adrenalin 2020 edition 20. Msi 3870oc 2 bridges it works ok in crossfire 3xgpu. Jan 24, 2010 ati 5970 graphics cards lenght and weight compared to 4870 x2, 3870 x2, 5770 ja x800 pro.
Amd ati mobility radeon hd 4870 x2 crossfire notebookcheck. Jun 25, 2008 for what its worth, i tried retesting the 3870 x2 with the new catalyst 8. Driver for ati radeon hd 3870 x2 radeon software adrenalin 2020 edition 20. Drivers ati radeon hd 4870 on windows 10 community. Radeon hd 4870 x2 and hd 4870 crossfire cf compared. Amdati driver for mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 windows 7 64bit. This is the same basic sort of layout we saw in the radeon hd 3870 x2 before it. The hd 4870 x2 performance isnt really much of a surprise.
I have a few suggestions for apple in this article especially the radeon hd 4870 x2. This combination is expected to offer almost the same performance as radeon hd 3870 crossfired. Amds ati radeon hd 4870 x2 came out 22% faster on average than the radeon hd 4870 with the same settings at. Not bringing the sideport would defeat the idea behind the x2 after all. Amds drivers will treat each gpu in the team as if it has 512mb of. I looking to purchase a 3870x2 card and was thinking of selling the other, but if crossfire between the two would be possible, i would definitely keep the 1st one as well. Arbitration between 2 separate cards occurs through a pcie interface, the pcie bus and another pcie interface. Although the radeon 3870x2 is still capable of playing many games at decent framerates, i wouldnt recommend it for a budget pc as youll need a pretty beefy power supply. I am going to move this to the catalyst driver forum. Its a compatibility question about your graphics card and the catalyst driver. Hi guys has anyone heard or seen how much faster the 4870x2 will be vs the 3870x2.
As with all multigpu solutions, the hd 3870 x2 may suffer from a phenomenon. Oct 21, 2008 amd radeon hd 3870 x2 driver hard drive installation via winzip with setup. Amdati drivers for mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 and windows 7 64bit. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the ati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 crossfire disabled performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions. I have msi ati hd 4870 1gb, first i have downloaded the last catalyst, and in this package a new driver exist for my card id. Ati 5970 compared to 4870 x2, 3870 x2, 5770 and x800 pro. Radeon hd 4870 x2 crossfire 4cf if you have the cash for it and have a compatible motherboard, plus 800 watt power supply, you can combine two. Amd radeon hd 3870 x2 compare amd radeon hd 4870 gpu. We have seen in the past that dualchip cards performed behind a pair of singlegpu boards. Even before testing the x2, we could imagine the performance of two radeon 3870 gpus put together would be quite good, but as is the case with standard dualcard sli or crossfire, we also expected. Pure power, close to the 4870 s at a lower price, running 4 cards now possible by using only 2 slots.
Keep in mind the hd 4870 is an 8 year old graphics card which in the tech world is considered ancient. Ati 3870x2 crysis very high at1920x1080 dx10 with old driver duration. Download latest mobility drivers for amdati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 and microsoft windows 7 64bit. For the most part we see the card performing almost in line with a. While details on amds highend ati radeon hd 4870 x2 graphics card began. Feb 25, 2008 i looking to purchase a 3870x2 card and was thinking of selling the other, but if crossfire between the two would be possible, i would definitely keep the 1st one as well. Jun 24, 2008 i would say get 1 4850 and use that if you cant wait for the 4870, when the 4870 comes out get it and run the 4870 and the 4850 in crossfire click to expand. Sapphire radeon hd 4870 x2 in crossfirex page 18 final. Amds radeon hd 4870 graphics processor the tech report. Video cards ati radeon hd 4870 x2 sapphire ati radeon hd 4850 x2 2gb.
Visiontek radeon hd 4870 x2 2gb community technology. I think atis linux drivers show a bit of evidence of this, with the lack of crossfire support in older drivers they also notably missed support for the 3870x2, and with new drivers that have crossfirex4800 crossfire support they now notably support the 4870x2. Nov 15, 2019 the hd 4870 x2 performance isnt really much of a surprise. Amd radeon hd 3870 x2 driver hard drive installation via winzip with setup. I currently have an 8800 ultra and was thinking of.
We evaluate two radeon hd 3870 x2 cards in crossfirex on an intel core 2 quad system, powering crysis, cod 4, and ut3 seeing the gameplay experience produced compared to a radeon hd 3870 x2 and a radeon hd 3870. Install amd ati radeon hd 3870 x2 driver for windows 10 x64, or download driverpack solution software for automatic driver installation and update. I can get a 4870 demo version cheap but is it worth spending money on. Radeon hd 4870 x2 in the mac pro inside mac games forum. Just like their nonex2 namesakes the hd 4850 x2 and hd 4870 x2 are. The radeon hd 3870 x2 features a single crossfire connector at the top of the pcb, meaning youll eventually be able to add a. The 4870 512 crossfire 1gb combined performed nearly identical to the 4870x2 2gb card, despite each of the 4870s having half the available memory for each core. The only real issue with ati gpus is the currently dont handle aa very well those benchmarks are without aa turned on in which case ati 3870x2 wins. A small comparison video between atis 3000 series single fastest graphics card and 4000 series single fastest graphics card. Link anandtech do a nice little feature test system. Aug 12, 2008 ati has claimed that it will use two performanceclass gpus on a single card to deliver highend products, and the radeon hd 4870 x2 is the result.
Geforce gtx 680 vs radeon hd 4870 x2 hardware compare. I know the 256bit x2 memory interface of the 9800gx2 kills its potential performance but it seems that 3way sli over 3 cards is handled better than quad gpus over 2 cards im sure x3 9800gtxs outperform x2 9800gx2s if i remember correctly. So you could then, i would think, go out and buy 2 4850s xfire them and create a set up that would rock the 3870x2 s for about the same price as a single 3870x2 probably less or get 2 4870s and xfire them for less than the cost of the 2 3870s x2 s and still be a. If i was going to build a small lan party rig i would honestly put a 4870x2 in once the driver mature. Just like the hd 3870 x2, the hd 4870 x2 uses a pciexpress bridge chip to. It features 1536 spus along with 128 texture address units. Btw the 3780 does scale much better but the op was not asking to crossfire 3870. The gddr5 ram is set to run at a frequency of 1502 mhz on this model. Im not satisfied with the driver support to be honest. A 4870 is cheaper than a 3870 x2 and a 4850 is about half the price of a 3870x2. These selfcontained slicrossfire graphics cards will work on anything however. Amdati driver for mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 windows 8 64bit version.
They may work on windows 10 but may have issues and is not supported since it wasnt tested. When the file download window appears, click save windows xp users will click save this program to disk and click ok. Radeon hd 3870 x2 not crossfire is a dualgraphics solution of two radeon hd 3870. Radeon hd 3870 x2 in crossfire x tested page 1 the latest ati catalyst drivers bring us the ability to pair up two hd 3870 x2s for some quadgpu crossfire x action. Jan 28, 2008 these selfcontained sli crossfire graphics cards will work on anything however. Triple crossfire 4870 4 gb ram eizo s2431w vista 64bit cat 9.
Crossfire 4870 x2 versus trigtx 280 nvidia geforce forums. Over the radeon hd 3870 x2 are the benefits of pci express 2. The radeon hd 3870 x2 features a single crossfire connector at the top of the pcb, meaning youll eventually be able to add a second card to it to enable 3x or 4x crossfire. We saw the same problem with the radeon hd 3870 x2 crossfire. Amdati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 drivers for windows 7 64bit 26 files. I like the fact that the hd 5870 has directx11 already supported, and that it is a newer card. So you could then, i would think, go out and buy 2 4850s xfire them and create a set up that would rock the 3870x2s for about the same price as a single 3870x2 probably less or get 2 4870s and xfire them for less than the cost of the 2 3870s x2s and still be a. Ati radeon hd 3870x2 1 gb this thing is a beast page 2. As long as the x2 cards can run at the same clock speeds as the individual 4870s, the x2 part should be faster. And i qoute from my mate who has just gone green i waited 9 months for 3870x2 cf drivers to improve, i read soon forever. Well, the graphics division of amd is about to give it another. I was going to buy 2 of the cards 2 weeks ago, but wanted to research the 4870 s first.
Radeon hd 4870 x2 crossfire 4cf if you have the cash for it and have a compatible motherboard, plus 800 watt power supply, you can combine two radeon hd 4870 x2 cards using crossfire. Used to be best bang for the buck vs the 4870 s at th 209 price level read below cons. Crysis is one game that doesnt scale very well in crossfire, the hd 4870 x2 still. Aug 29, 2008 page 1 of 2 radeon hd 4870 x2 in the mac pro posted in mac hardware. Via quits mainboard chipset industry amd radeon hd 4870 x2 crossfire. Amdati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 mobility drivers for microsoft. As in the previous test, this article shows unimpressive 3dmark scores, but as the author is quick to point out, 3dmark06 is known to be quite he. Ati radeon hd 3870 x2 crossfirex tested techpowerup. Amdati driver for mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 windows 8 64bit. Amd is the first out of the gates with the radeon hd 3870 x2, based on what amd is calling its r680 gpu. Ati radeon hd 3870 x2 crossfirex the power of 4 gpus is now possible with amd s ati crossfirex technology. Im hoping the next gen mac pro will feature a cuttingedge gpu.
Each of the five instructions of a vliw bundle has to be independent from the others and the performance therefore depends on the optimization of the driver. Jun 16, 2008 as long as the x2 cards can run at the same clock speeds as the individual 4870 s, the x2 part should be faster. I would say get 1 4850 and use that if you cant wait for the 4870, when the 4870 comes out get it and run the 4870 and the 4850 in crossfire click to expand. More recently, there were cards like the geforce 7950 gx2, and even atis own radeon hd 2600 x2, which didnt really do too well. A lot has happened since the dualgpu radeon hd 3870 x2 was launched last january, though not so much on atis front. This adds latency and limits data transfers to the max speed of the pcie bus. Ati 5970 compared to 4870 x2, 3870 x2, 5770 and x800 pro arvutihull. Ati 5970 graphics cards lenght and weight compared to 4870 x2, 3870 x2, 5770 ja x800 pro. Is this kind of bondage between the two card i have possible. The range of scores 95th 5th percentile for the ati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 crossfire disabled is just 0. Nov 19, 2008 radeon hd 4870 x2 crossfire 4cf if you have the cash for it and have a compatible motherboard, plus 800 watt power supply, you can combine two radeon hd 4870 x2 cards using crossfire.
This combination is expected to offer almost the same performance as radeon hd 3870 crossfired while consuming. This was not the case with 2900cf and 3870cf vs 3870x2 i also would have thought it would be easier to get higher oc on single 4870s in cf than. Once youve connected the bridge and activated the crossfire mode in amds. I know that sometime in march amd is supposed to release a driver that will enable multy gpu support. I have some concerns with crossfirex, as i have heard mixed opinions about it. Jan 28, 2008 more recently, there were cards like the geforce 7950 gx2, and even atis own radeon hd 2600 x2, which didnt really do too well.
It is important to note that this direct connection between the gpus is another difference between 3870 x2 and the 4870 x2, and of course, the move from pcie 1. Amd ati radeon hd 3870 x2 drivers for windows 10 x64. Amd today announced the radeon hd 4870 x2 graphics card, which. Hd 4870 x2, the card has an improved pci express 2. It keeps having conflicts with some or the other games. Were not yet permitted to publish the linux crossfire benchmarks, but today we. Jul 21, 2008 a 4870 is cheaper than a 3870 x2 and a 4850 is about half the price of a 3870x2. I realize the 4870x2 was likely performing on beta drivers, but the 4870s dont have official support yet either, as theyre not even listed on the driver page of ati. Amdati driver for mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 windows 7 64bit version. Ati mobility radeon hd 4870, 2009 ati mobility radeon hd 4870 x2. It features 1536 spus along with 128 texture address units and 32 rasterization operator units. Amdati mobility radeon hd 3870 x2 mobility drivers for.