Jumping ahead of its competitors, Powercolor has officially launched its HD 4870 X2 card. It uses the reference design and reference clocks and we're expecting every other card that will be announced over the next few days to do the same. The only thing that keeps changing is the sticker on top of this dual GPU beast.

As has been known for some time, the card comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900MHz (3.6GHz effectively) paired up with a dual 256-bit memory interface, and it has two RV770 cores that works at 750MHz. The card has a total of 1,600 stream processors, 800 per core, and produces 2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power.

It supports DirectX 10.1, ATI's CrossFireX and the second generation of ATI's unified video decoder, also known as UVD. You can check out Powercolor's sticker on the pictures below.