October 2nd, 2008
Xbit ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Vs. ATI Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire Review
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card is the fastest solution in the market these days. However, it is pretty expensive and the card itself is so large that may not fit in some system cases. Today we decided to discuss the performance of two ATI Radeon HD 4870 solutions – from VisionTek and Club 3D – in order to determine if a CrossFire tandem like that could become an alternative to the top-of-the-line ATI Radeon solution.
The development strategy that focuses on high-performance mainstream graphics cards priced below $200 has proved its worth, but the question of having the world’s most advanced graphics solution is still important for both giants of the graphics hardware market. Such a solution serves to advertise the technical potential of the developer company. Today, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 is the fastest graphics card available, but it relies on ATI CrossFireX technology in order to show its full potential. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280, on its part, is the fastest among single-chip single-PCB graphics cards.
