Sapphire Radeon HD3870 X2 1GB GDDR3 PCI-e: La Nueva BESTIA.

domingo, 24 de febrero de 2008


Precio:361 €
55nm process technology
Over 1 TeraFLOPS of GPU Compute Power
640 (320 x2) stream processing units
2 x 256-bit memory interfaces
DirectX® 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support
Game physics processing capability
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
High-speed 128-bit HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing
Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD DVD at full HD 1080p
NOTA: Incluye 2 adaptadores de alimentación molex de 4pines a 4pines, con lo cual juntando los 2 hacen un adaptador de 2 molex 4pines a 1 de 8 pines

666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
PCI Express 2.0 x16 GPU bus interface1
256-bit GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 1 support
Shader Model 4.1
32-bit floating point texture filtering
Indexed cube map arrays
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
Gather4 texture fetching
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
320 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
High performance vertex cache
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti aliasing features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporal anti-aliasing
Gamma correct
Super AA (ATI CrossFire™ configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
Bicubic filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
OpenGL 2.0 support
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
Motion compensation and IDCT
ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
Color space conversion
Chroma subsampling format conversion
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Gamma correction
Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
Detail enhancement
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
Bad edit correction
Two independent display controllers
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
Full 30-bit display processing
Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
Hardware cursor
Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2
Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3
Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15362
HDMI output support
Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10802
Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
Underscan and overscan compensation
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs
ATI PowerPlay™
Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
Performance-on-Demand
Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
Clock and memory speed throttling
Voltage switching
Dynamic clock gating
Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
Integrated compositing engine
High performance bridge interconnect
ATI Radeon HD 3870 GPUs support PCIe 2.0. Some third party board 2048x1536 configurations may not fully comply with complete PCIe 2.0 specification and operate at PCIe 1.1 specifications on motherboards that support PCIe 2.0 . Please consult with board manufacturer if this is an important feature for you.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
HDCP support for playback of protected content requires connection to a HDCP capable display
System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
550 Watt or greater power supply with two 2x3-pin PCIe® power connectors required (750 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for dual ATI CrossFireX™) .
For enhanced performance with ATI Overdrive™, a power supply with one 2x3-pin and one 2x4-pin PCIe® power connector is required
Certified power supplies are strongly recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/CertifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Certified system cases with good airflow and cooling are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedcases for a list of Certified products
1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board are required

¿Telefónica nos roba?


No, no busquéis el ofertón en España. Es la nueva campaña de su filial O2 en el Reino Unido. Telefónica debe tomar a los españoles por imbéciles cuando en su país de origen mantiene precios que se sitúan entre los más caros de Europa.


La oferta va dirigida a los abonados de tarifas móviles que la multinacional a través de O2 tiene en el Reino Unido. En esta oferta también se incluyen los 11,5 millones de clientes de prepago que gasten 10 libras en tres meses en su teléfono móvil. Una cifra ridícula (que la mayoría gastamos) por la que prácticamente todos los clientes se podrán acoger a la tarifa ADSL.

Un verdadero ofertón si tenemos en cuenta lo que sus clientes españoles deben pagar por menos velocidad (3 megas). Ya ni hablo de la opinión que tendrán sus usuarios de Latinoamérica… ante estas ofertas.

Convendría que la Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones tomara de una vez medidas para alentar la competencia, abandonando su servil apoyo al monopolio en favor de los ciudadanos, así como los usuarios deberían contemplar las alternativas existentes más económicas para convencer a la multinacional que no podemos ser los parias por más tiempo.

Mientras Telefónica tenga un 70% de cuota en el ADSL no hay nada que hacer y controlará la CMT y los precios a su antojo. Y que nos nos vengan con el cuento de que no puede bajar los precios por el ser el operador dominante… A otro perro con ese hueso ¡¡¡Qué ya está bien!!!

Juan Ranchal

Con la tecnología de Blogger.