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      25th Sep 2009
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Behold AMD's, and soon aimed to be the industry's most powerful graphics accelerator: Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock". Armed with two "Cypress" Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors, this dual-GPU monstrosity packs twice the shader compute power. From the looks of it, the card is slightly longer than its single-GPU sibling from the series, and is better ventilated, although the cooler design more or less resembles it. It draws its power from one 6+2 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E power connectors, just like two of its ancestors in the R700 and R680. Listed for pre-order on a European online store, a Radeon HD 5870 X2 is priced at 677 EUR



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Yeah that looks like a graphics card from 20 years ago! Odd to think than in a couple of years time the same power will probably fit on to a laptop onboard graphics adapter.
 
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That thing is huge..You could hurt somebody with that...
 
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That thing is huge..You could hurt somebody with that...
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"These 24 displays (each 1920 x 1200 panels) were powered by four Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs"

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NzUyNQ

So thats four 5800's 24 monitors, one pc, and a aircraft hanger to house them all. I'll just take a look out in the garden and see if I have room to build all that

Oh and did you notice they were running on a GNU/Linux system

Must be a fake as we all know that gaming on GNU/Linux is poor.

Pocking fun apart an whatever os they run on those 5800's en-mass look awesome. Imagine HL2 or Bioshock played like that

 

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