ATI Radeon 4850/4870 Mix And Match With Radeon 3850/3870

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Mountain House (CA) - If everything goes according to plan, we will see AMD's new Radeon GPU launch this week.

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[puterpoweruser]

I just bought two 4850's at best buy, waiting on a new AMD board to purchase and run these in crossfire. I had just purchased two 3870 OC's three weeks ago, so i exchanged them. It will be interesting to see how these cards mix together on benches compared to two 4850's.

 

[ZootyGray]

This is the kind of idea that the original "Tom" would have pursued! To excess!

I think it's a question of how does data flow - is it better with 2 cards or one - or 3? or 4? Now that would be an interesting review. However, I think results would be very driver-dependent. One interesting idea, however. And again I see quad cpu technology meeting quad gpu technology.

I cannot help but think that a manufacturer of cpu's has a great advantage here. Combining cpu/gpu tek. But I don't know much about underlying tek that could affect this - but I think we will see this in a year. One chip or one card - a combo chip or an allinwonder mobo. Scary proprietary however. Almost sounds like Mac. But if it were cheap, green, and amd-"Game" rated, that would be the end of xbox, etc.

I guess they are all the same anyway.

 

[geckoar]

With the refresh of the Xbox 360 next year they are putting the CPU and GPU on the same die to cut down on heat and make the xbox maybe slim. But I think the Fusion idea is great.

 

[Elect_T]

Hello all,
I've tried to get a true from all the forums i've visited but seems to me that the conclusion is to get the combination of a 3850 512 DDR3 with a 4870 512 DDR5 as impossible in cross fire.
I saw some screen shoots as it's being possible but i've tried and i cant get the menu to acivate the crossfire option. In final is it possible or gonna be? (with latest drivers?)



q9300+thermaltake silent 775; 2x 1gb ddr2 800 corsair;nox coolbay 25 + nox urano 600w; (PC ATI 4870 512 DDR5 + PC ATI 3850 512 DDR3) = 🙁 ; 250 gb sata2; ASUS P5K PRO