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Rumour: ATI Radeon HD 4890 X2 cards in the works
Author: Ben HardwidgePublished: 15th April 2009
Rumours indicate that AMD's board partners could be introducing their own Radeon HD 4890 X2 cards (not a genuine photo).
According to the rumour mill, there won’t be a reference Radeon HD 4890 X2 card from AMD, but it’s up to AMD’s board partners as to whether they want to manufacture such a card. Bright Side of News claims to have spoken to one anonymous board partner, which the site says plans to make a 4890 X2 card with two 1GHz GPUs and options for 2GB and 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The site doesn’t reveal the identity of the board partner, but says that it has seen some “engineering drawings” of the card.
The rumours also point to a recent video interview with AMD’s Saša Marinkovic from the guys at www.pcgameshardware.de. Bright Side of News says that Marinkovic makes a “we're going flat out to capture the crown statement”, while Softpedia says the video reveals that “AMD's AIB partners would be given the opportunity to make their own Radeon HD 4890X2,” adding that “the support for such a card is already available, thanks to an 8+6 power configuration that is featured on the current reference boards.”
However, after watching the video ourselves, we have to say that Marinkovic is much more guarded than the reports imply. He mentions that Radeon HD 4890 reference boards can feature two eight-pin power connectors so that board partners can make overclocked cards. Plus, when asked about the potential for a Radeon HD 4890 X2, Marinkovic says: “similar to when we launched the 4870, you could see the performance and the scaling by putting two of the cards in the system in a CrossFire mode. So, similar to that, if you take 4890 and run it in CrossFire mode it’s a great indication where the performance can get.”
Marinkovic doesn’t in fact say that board partners will be able to make Radeon HD 4890 X2 cards, but you could say that there’s an implication there. That is, if you put two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire mode, you can see how a future top-end card might perform.
There’s a lot of rumour and speculation here, and it’s also fair to say that a Radeon HD 4890 X2 card would need a lot of power, as well as a hefty cooler. Would you be interested in picking up a Radeon HD 4890 X2 card? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
Via Tom's Hardware.
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And i'd like that to come out straight from a board-partner with warranty.
But hey, wishful thinking.
(Imagines a 4890x2 @ 1200mhz core clock and 1200mhz mem)
I'm waiting for DX11 X2 Card ;)
can't they come up with some supah performance low power design, more or less like core2 was for the PentiumIV?
I'd rather go for dual cards if i was in for a setup like that.
Unless of course, the fantastic "link" between the two GPU's was finally solved, and they had unified memory between both cores...but thats probably for DX11 cards....
Good thing I already have a 1300 watt PSU!!
lol,
S*D
Yikes, where are those numbers coming from? Bit-Tech's own numbers show an ENTIRE SYSTEM equipped with a single 4890 drawing less power at the wall than you're claiming for a single card.
Too hot, too hungry.
Doubt they'd make enough money off of a move like this (whoever DOES it, that is).
Ati was saying that it was "on track" and that it should make a debut in summer 2009. Summer is close and everything is quiet; rumors are floating that Nvidia (which was behind) will even catch up to Ati.