PALIT REVOLUTION R700 HD 4870X2 2GB DDR5

Inorder to fill the high-end graphic card market and become the fastest of the graphic card industry, ATI installed 2 GPU chip HD 4870 in one board, and so the ATI HD 4870X2 was born. Seizing the chance, Palit decide to manufacture a graphic card using this chip of their own too.

To cool off this card Palit used the one not referenced by ATI. Palit uses their own choice of cooler, the result is an HD 4870X2 graphic card which takes up 3 slots from your motherboard. Though big in size, the cooler really work quitely.

The card also comes with complete set of connectors from DVI, HDMI, VGA and diplay port are available in this graphic card. If you need 2 DVI connectors, Palit included an HDMI to DVI adapter.

No S-Video

Conclusion:
If you’re choosing this type of graphic card make sure you have plenty of space available in your computer case. Because it consumes lots of space thanks to its cooling device. This graphic card is also very suitable for enthusiats and hard core PC gamer.

Specifications:
Chip: ATI Radeon HD 4870X2
Interface: PCI Express x16
Memori: 2 GB
Core Clock: 750 MHz
Memory Clock: 950 MHz
HDTV output: not available
DVI output: available
HDMI output: available
Jenis Memory: GDDR5
Memory interface: 512-bit
Package: HDMI to DVI Converter, CrossFire Bridge, 6 pin to 8 pin Power Converter, Driver CD, Quick Installation Guide.

Benchmark:
3DMarks Vantage : P10277
Company of Heroes DX9: 195.2
Company of Heroes DX10: 83.3
F.E.A.R.: 271
Quake 4: 194.3

This product is tested with this testbed system:
Mainstream Mobo: MSI P35-NEO2 FIR
Extreme Mobo: ASUS Maximus
ATI Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD3870
NVIDIA Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT
Memory: Corsair DDR2-PC6400, DDR2-PC8500, DDR3
Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200RPM, Raptor
Power Supply: Tagan 700W, 800W, 1100W
Flash Memory: Kingston UFD, SDHC, SD, MicroSD, CF
Keyboard & Mouse: Genius USB, optical
Optical Drive: AOpen DVD-RW 2012S
Cooling System: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7Pro/64Pro dan Accelero X1/X2

source CHIP Magazine.

An interesting news we found about the ATI vs nVidia graphic card race. Here’s the complete story

AMD boasted today that it has delivered the world’s first 1 GHz GPU. Is this a new product? Not exactly.

What AMD has done is that it has taken an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which normally runs at 850 MHz, and overclocked it to 1 GHz at the factory – air cooled – and voila, you have yourself the world’s first shipping 1 GHz GPU part.

In fact, if you had your own Radeon HD 4890, you might be able to reach 1 GHz too. Of course, AMD does have the advantage of binning parts to make sure that those with the most headroom get separated for this new SKU.

The flip side of that equation also means that any GPUs that aren’t able to hit the 1 GHz mark on just air cooling will be relegated to just the old “regular” pile, which will cap speeds at which the Radeon HD 4890 will run.

Look out for these juiced up video cards from Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gecube, Gigabyte, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), ITC, Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology and XFX.

Stay tuned for our hands on with one of these cards where we’ll put it up against a ‘vanilla’ reference board.

Interestingly enough, this is the second time that AMD has beat an arch rival to the 1 GHz milestone. Back in 2000, AMD beat Intel to the 1 GHz punch with its Athlon. Remember that? Take a trip with us down memory lane as we look back on Chris Angelini’s review of the AMD Athlon 1 GHz during his more innocent and much younger days.

source:  Tom’s Hardware US