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ATI 3870 X2 Benchmarked, Beats 8800 Ultra

First of all, it beats the 8800 Ultra hands down in most of the benchmarks. The 3870 X2 scores more the 8800Ultra in Call of Duty 4 by as much as 30% on a resolution of 1280 x 1024. And by 20% in F.E.A.R. Jump ahead to read more about this card.

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Charmers5990d ago

Oh come on like that is a surprise, the 3870x2 is practically TWO cards welded together. Why not get back to us when you have sized it up against the 9800gx2

Arvynia5990d ago

Actually, the good thing about this for ATI is that the 9800gx2 is only supposed to be 30% faster then the ultra... looks like another equal (or close to equal) card to the 9800gx2

cue kalamos5989d ago

I'm going to guess its better because AMD bought them out

mighty_douche5990d ago

LOL... yeah well done ATI....

basically 2 of your best cards beats nvidia's 2 year old offering! well done!!

VirusE5989d ago

Ohh how the mighty have fallen. I remember just 2 years ago when ATI and AMD ruled the gaming roost. Owning an AMD cpu or an ati gfx card now is a joke.

ReasonMan5989d ago

The key word there is beats. It doesn't matter that it's up against a 2 year old card or that it's a dual core. Up until now nothing has realy beaten out the ultra. What matters is that the 3870 x2 looks like it's going to out preform the Ultra and do it $200 cheaper(if the price sticks) at that. I must have missed the bad part of all this.

mikeslemonade5990d ago

Obsolete already huh? Consoles for the win.

Bubble and Squeek5989d ago

Does the cognitive dissonance hurt much?

VirusE5989d ago

Bubble you shouldn’t assume he even knows what cognitive dissonance is, most people don’t.

Bubble and Squeek5989d ago

Perhaps, but wiki is only a few keystrokes away.

Isn't this democratisation of knowledge dandy :-)

Though considering his tenuous position on this matter, perhaps we should be happy he managed to log in :-)

NvidiaGuy5986d ago

uhhhh, dont make me laugh,, consoles suck, the technology that they use comes from PCs, so IMO PCs will always be the best gaming machines around, and the most versatile to...

todays consoles are just PC wannabes!!!

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BludoTheSmelly5989d ago

multi core gpus is a much better idea than multiple cards in a case

RRoDx3605989d ago

Dogs bark and dolphins swim.

NvidiaGuy5986d ago

i think it would be better to implement the same technology they use on todays CPUs, and instead of having two seperate GPUs on the PCB, put multiple GPUs on the same die, like the dual/quad core CPUs that are on the market just now...

Guwapo775989d ago

About damn time AMD/ATi... Yeah your matched up against and older card. With the card being sold at $449 retail, it just can't be beat when comparing it to a $550+ Ultra card. If this is suggested retail we might be able to pick one up around $400.

I need a full review though from Anandtech before I make my final decision though.

...Now we just need those Phenom chips to pull out a miracle so I can finally upgrade.

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World of Warcraft: The War Within Beta First Impressions | The Outerhaven

The Outerhaven writes: I’ve been a World of Warcraft player since April 2005. I may have been five months late to the launch party but I am a Vanilla baby. I have played every expansion and since Cataclysm, I have beta-tested almost every expansion (minus Shadowlands and Dragonflight) and I finally had a chance to check out World of Warcraft: The War Within.

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Black Myth: Wukong Devs Refused To Work with Sweet Baby Inc

According to the latest report, Black Myth Wukong developers refused to work with Sweet Baby Inc. due to unbelievably high guidance fees.

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bananacrust7h ago

theres nothing to this story and its rage bait. why would a chinese company work with a north american firm on chinese ideals?

-Foxtrot7h ago

The real question is why would an American consultant firm even try to get a Chinese company to agree to any kind of deal knowing the countries ideals. They approached them first.

It’s just arrogant that they think they could dictate what a studio in another country does

When you have the co-founder saying stuff like this

https://x.com/GamesNosh/sta...

You can see why they think they could even try to do this to a Chinese based studio.

What’s next? Threaten them? Try to cancel them? Get western journalists to write hit pieces on them and play down the game?

They shouldn’t have even approached them to begin with, they have no right.

Also the price of their services is insane

isarai2h ago

Exactly what i was thinking, the whole concept of SBI is absurd to me.

H929m ago

Actually IGN already did, GS refused the deal with SBI in the past which prompted IGN to write a hit piece last year about how sexist GS are, they replied on poorly translated old remarks made by some of the devs
https://www.ign.com/article...

--Onilink--2m ago(Edited 1m ago)

I dont know, a consulting firm offering services to a company from a different plac, that is no doubt also trying to reach the market said consulting firm is located in, seems like a perfectly reasonable scenario to me.

Same if the company would reach out to consulting firms instead.

Obviously thats unrelated to the specifics of the consulting firm in question and whether the other company is interested in that kind of assistance for their product.

But generally speaking, a consulting firm from one location trying to get to work with a company from a different location sounds like such a normal thing to me, no idea why you think they shouldn’t have even approached them based on being from different countries

Aphrodia7h ago

finally the gaming community is learning about the politcally correct consultant companies and the racket they are running.

H926m ago

Now is a good time to remind people of the IGN hit piece on sexism in Game Science studio that came out of nowhere last year
https://www.ign.com/article...
This is a application to how the co-founder of SBI admitted to bully studios into working with them
https://x.com/GamesNosh/sta...

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Warframe Interview: Rebb Ford Talks Bringing Stalker Back for Jade Shadows

Game Rant chats with Warframe creative director Rebb Ford about Jade Shadows, the Stalker's history, and how the team handles lore and characters.

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