It was just a matter of time before AMD's crown jewel was
pixellized, and now we can take a look at the first pictures of the ATI
HD 5870 X2, known also by its Hemlock codename. The pictures appeared
at
Xtremesystems.org forum, and we are quite sure that we will see more of these pretty soon.
This card features two 40nm Cypres GPUs, a dual 256-bit memory
interface and a total of 3200 stream processors. Judging by the
pictures, the card needs a 6 and 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors
while the exact clocks are unknown due to the fact that it could have
an unacceptably high TDP and thus might have lower clocks than the HD
5870.
The card should be up and running sometime in November, at a rumoured price of around US $500.