Carl Poirier - Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | 6:59AM (PT)
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An unidentified ATI partner is working on the project
A while ago, the ATI Radeon HD4870X2 got its crown stolen by the NVIDIA GTX295. ATI might as well take the lead back with a X2 version of its HD4890 that got released a week ago.
Saša Marinkovic from the product marketing department at ATI, did not deny the such a piece of hardware when he got interviewed by PC Games Hardware:
It seems however that the HD4890 would have power issues, however. The card could potentially be the most power hungry card out there if it features two 8-pin power connectors to fix the power issue. This means a total of 375W could be used: 75W from the PCI-E and 150W from each 8-pin connector. The fact that there is currently no card on the market featuring 2x8-pin power connectors does not seem to scare ATI; most high-end power supplies feature 2 or more of these connectors.
The leader of the HD4890 X2s, an overclocked version, is planned to feature GPU clocks of up to 1GHz, partnered either with 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5. A stock-clocked 4890X2 can also be expected, featuring only 2GB of GDDR5, which would take only an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector instead of two 8-pin.
FOUR GIGABYTES? I didn't think gamers would need that much VRAM for many more years. But anyway, Im certain it will cost the earth and be in limited supplies, so only the super determined and super rich will get one.
That will be one insane card and with 4 gigs of ram thats crazy with these HD and 3D monitors poping up all over those would be a perfect match.
Two 8 pin PCIE adapters are not bad, my HD3850 AGP card has one 8 pin PCIE and my PSU had only 6 pin PCIE so I had to get a 6 pin tp 8 pin PCIE cable from performancePC which took care of that problem.
also there is a few VGA power supplies floating around that fit right into the 5.25 bay to feed that hungry card, so one can get away with a 700+ watt PSU and get the VGA PSU and be set.
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I didn't think this card is coming. Now that it is though, it sounds like it is a pretty good idea.
Two 8 pin PCIE adapters are not bad, my HD3850 AGP card has one 8 pin PCIE and my PSU had only 6 pin PCIE so I had to get a 6 pin tp 8 pin PCIE cable from performancePC which took care of that problem.
also there is a few VGA power supplies floating around that fit right into the 5.25 bay to feed that hungry card, so one can get away with a 700+ watt PSU and get the VGA PSU and be set.