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Is this for real?.. Dual Radeon 9800!
If nothing else, they could be on to something..
AGAIN, OUR good Italian friends have pointed to one of the most interesting pictures that people following computer graphics can view.
The boys were able to take a picture of a unique card from Sapphire that is based on two Radeon 9800 PRO chips solution that would undoubtedly be the fastest card that exist. Apart from this, it would feature two DVI outs very useful stuff in Professional market and we wonder that it could easily have 512 MB or Ram 2x256 MHz to be precise since each chip can address 256 MB only.
We learned that at 10 layer PCB it is simply impossible to make this card work and that this card will never come to market . We believe that even ATI was surprised with this since Sapphire used to follow what ATI does and in this case ATI never played with Radeon 9800 MAXX design.
Still we believe that Sapphire could make this card work, even it would be freakily expensive – maybe in the $1000 range. ATI would need to write the drivers.
Be sure that this card will never hit retail shelves but it is good to know that this is an option that can come if necessary in near future. Sapphire proved that it can do more then make ATI replicas and we believe that was the point of showing an incredibly impressive looking card that does not work. Anyway make sure to look at the LINQ, which is here.
AGAIN, OUR good Italian friends have pointed to one of the most interesting pictures that people following computer graphics can view.
The boys were able to take a picture of a unique card from Sapphire that is based on two Radeon 9800 PRO chips solution that would undoubtedly be the fastest card that exist. Apart from this, it would feature two DVI outs very useful stuff in Professional market and we wonder that it could easily have 512 MB or Ram 2x256 MHz to be precise since each chip can address 256 MB only.
We learned that at 10 layer PCB it is simply impossible to make this card work and that this card will never come to market . We believe that even ATI was surprised with this since Sapphire used to follow what ATI does and in this case ATI never played with Radeon 9800 MAXX design.
Still we believe that Sapphire could make this card work, even it would be freakily expensive – maybe in the $1000 range. ATI would need to write the drivers.
Be sure that this card will never hit retail shelves but it is good to know that this is an option that can come if necessary in near future. Sapphire proved that it can do more then make ATI replicas and we believe that was the point of showing an incredibly impressive looking card that does not work. Anyway make sure to look at the LINQ, which is here.
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