October 2nd, 2008
InsideHW ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2
Launch of nVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 280 brought a huge enthusiasm in last two months, but it already begun to fade. The main “culprit” is ATi which showed to all of us that even when hard times come they are continuing with good work as if competition isn’t a problem and as confirmation of their efforts we got incredible new generation of graphics cards. The whole story started with great Radeon HD 4850 and continued with HD 4870 that had GDDR5 memory. After great critics for these two GPUs, ATi was aware that they shouldn’t stop there, if they want to overthrown nVIDIA from the top performance throne. And they did
You can bet that ATi learned lessons with Radeon HD 3870X2 and introduced Radeon HD 4870X2. ATi really did great job, so great that several former nVIDIA exclusive brands like Gainward start with production of graphics cards based on ATi GPUs, while many of them for the first time will take in consideration that possibility. These new actions show not only that ATi can compete with nVIDIA but also how much nVIDIA is threatened by ATi.
