AMD confirms R680 is two chips on one board

This is the biggest PR BS i ever see.

 

It likely is...but that's how the stuff goes on in this business. Ludicrous claims are teh hawt. Must learn to live with it, young padawan.

 

What? Two R680 (or is it RV680) in CrossfireX means four RV670 cores which incidently provides 1280 Stream Processors and a 512MB framebuffer.

 

320 x 4 = 1280
AKA
2, 3870 x2 in CF

 

Why not say 64*4=256 then?It would be just as valid...common guys, there's at least a "bit" of marketing there. And there's nothing wrong with that, mind you...1280 shaders has a certain ring to it. But unless one gets 100% scaling, multiplying it by exactly 4 is wishful thinking

 

I know what its mean.
This is the funniest ever, its like intel marketing quad core 3ghz penryn something like "12ghz CPU power" ,number is true because 4x3ghz=12ghz but clear numbers not means anything, so thats why i write is PR BS.

 

Yeah this how things working, but only working in this way because there is enough idiot in the planet who eat this and can't see the difference between apples and oranges.

 

Except it's nothing like that at all. It's more like Intel marketing their Penryn with "4 cores of CPU power". I see much worse PR BS pretty much every time I look at marketing material.

 

Much anger I sense in you...to the darkside anger leads. Anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering

 

and doobies lead to twinkies.

Oops, wrong Yoda line...

 

She is looking in your eyes

Yes, is all about Ruby

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=216664

Specs and picture of the Radeon 680 aka HD 3870X2

 

source

 

This was posted already by no-X:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=45950&page=3

 

Morgoth is your name?Ar you sure you are not Melchor?
Cause I still sense light in you...
Like you haven't fall yet...
Iluvatar

 

It's looks to be about the same length as the Ultra if sitting level instead of tilted as it seems to be.

 

That's my own sketch

 

If that were the case, the PCIE fingers wouldn't line up. The ATI card in that screen is indeed shorter.

Regards,
SB

 

To me it looks absolutely the same length, if you discount the obvious barrel effect on one of it's sides vs none/negligible on the 8800 Ultra photo.

 

Use PS CE, remove lens distorsions and the red card will appear even shorter than in this picture...

 

Well, i won't bother as it's too small of a difference to matter much anyway.
However, the positioning of the auxiliar power plugs in this R680 is in fact very poorly thought out.