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ATI planning a new Radeon 5870 X2 Graphics card
There have been numerous rumors floating on the web that AMD ATI is working on an updated dual-GPU X2 card. Though names and specifications vary a lot, yesterday an entry for a Radeon HD 5870 X2 popped up at a Dutch (respectable) etailer. It's quite interesting as they inserted the card ...
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Rumor or typo? Radeon 5870 X2 surfaces, dives
CrunchGear — ... , specifically a Radeon HD5870X2. It seems more likely that a 58XX card will be an entirely new die and core and support DirectX 11, rather than show the refresh specs this mysterious product seems to offer. Perhaps it’s the Radeon HD4995 people have been expecting, which should recapture the top performance spot from NVIDIA? Nobody knows. Meanwhile, here are the specs, from Guru3d: ...

AMD Radeon HD 5870 X2 Graphics Card Leaked
PCLaunches.com — ... And no sooner it was up the news spread like wildfire and later the page was taken offline. But till the time it was online Guru3D checked out the page and listed its specification. It appears that the latest Radeon graphics card is AMD's answer to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 295 with 800MHz core speed, 4800MHz memory frequency, HDMI, and GDDR5 memory. The card also supports Microsoft's 10.1 DirectX and 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution. The Radeon HD 5870 X2 was listed heavily at $861. [Via Guru3D]

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