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The Single-Decker Champ: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Graphics Card ReviewBy:Alexey Stepin Date:2008-2-22 10:16:46 |

The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 has the best average result at 1600x1200 and higher, but its minimum speed is considerably lower than that of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX and even of the single Radeon HD 3870. Perhaps it is due to some flaws in the software on which the new graphics card depends just like any other multi-GPU solution.
Well, the GeForce 8800 GTX cannot provide a comfortable speed, either, even at 1280x1024 if you use the highest graphics quality settings together with FSAA. So the results have little practical value.

CrossFire technology doesn't work right here: the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is somewhat slower than the single ATI Radeon HD 3870. That's not a good thing as the new card is positioned by its developer as an opponent to Nvidia's fastest single-chip solutions. We hope this problem will be corrected in the next version of Catalyst.
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