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Sapphire 3870 X2 Atomic review

Nuclear powered GPUs, whatever next?

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Last reviewed: June 9th

Price at Launch 340
Features ATI PowerPlay™/ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
Additional Information MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding/Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
Power Supply 450Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended
RAM Recommended (GB) 1
Required Peripherals CD-ROM Drive, DVD-ROM Drive
API Support New DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.0
ATI Description No
ATI Pixel Pipelines 320
Graphics Core Clockspeed 825
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 1000
Graphics Memory Speed (GHz) 1.8
Graphics Memory Type GDDR4
Max Supported Resolution 2560 x 1600
RAMDACs 400
Shader Support Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
Video Output Dual-Link DVI, HDMI
GPU ATI
DVI Ports 2

Product Summary

Radeon HD 3870 X2 Atomic (Water cooled)

Price at launch

£340.00

Key specs


GPU: ATI |
DVI Ports: 2 |

Full spec

For

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Plenty of headroom for overclocking

Against

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Awkwardly large reservoir

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Over-priced

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Not pre-overclocked

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