Radeon 3870XT?

g0dM@n · 02-13-08, 10:00 AM

Is this just a downclocked 3870? I don't see much info on it... And it's a little deceiving when you think of how ATI's naming convention works... usually an "XT" added to the name means something better, but from googling I think it's a downclocked card.

How come there's no much info on it? I believe it's released overseas, but not in the states.

Shiggity · 02-13-08, 10:04 AM

Never even heard of that model, links pls

g0dM@n · 02-13-08, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Shiggity

Never even heard of that model, links pls

google it... there seems to be barely any info on it, but it's there!!

i found this:
http://www.fuzing.com/vli/002981b983...870XT-VGA-card

i also found a guy selling them on XS here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=176643

1st i heard of it was just before i posted this thread.

BmanG17 · 02-13-08, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by g0dM@n

google it... there seems to be barely any info on it, but it's there!!

i found this:
http://www.fuzing.com/vli/002981b983...870XT-VGA-card

i also found a guy selling them on XS here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=176643

1st i heard of it was just before i posted this thread.

wierd, though while the store link url has XT in it, under the card name it says 3870PRO which would seem to me its a normal 3870, and not an XT.

I cant view the XSs link to look at the guys card.

g0dM@n · 02-13-08, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BmanG17

wierd, though while the store link url has XT in it, under the card name it says 3870PRO which would seem to me its a normal 3870, and not an XT.

I cant view the XSs link to look at the guys card.

that's b/c it's in XS's classifieds... you have to be a member and you have to have privileges to view it. sry about that.

just google 3870xt. you will see some other forums and overseas stuff about it.

JamesXP · 02-13-08, 02:44 PM

ATi has dumped the Pro/XT etc procedure AFAIK now it's just pre-overclocked cards....

g0dM@n · 02-13-08, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesXP

ATi has dumped the Pro/XT etc procedure AFAIK now it's just pre-overclocked cards....

pre-overclocked...?

all i know of the 3000 radeon higher-end series is:

3850
3870
3870x2

right?

glockjs · 02-13-08, 03:07 PM

some company may be trying to make money off of slapping xt on it but as far as i last heard xt/pro badging is dead. think of 3850 as pro and 3870 as xt. but its all numbers now. and the x2 in the 3870x2 just means 2 gpu's

g0dM@n · 02-13-08, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by glockjs

some company may be trying to make money off of slapping xt on it but as far as i last heard xt/pro badging is dead. think of 3850 as pro and 3870 as xt. but its all numbers now. and the x2 in the 3870x2 just means 2 gpu's

The "x2" I understand... makes perfect sense.

So I guess a 3870XT is a 3870, eh? Still misleading when you take a look at this link:
http://www.fuzing.com/vli/002981b983...870XT-VGA-card
...as they call it a 3870pro...

glockjs · 02-13-08, 03:26 PM

well now im confused...

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Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes

but then again how trustworthy is that site? did somebody remake the card with an extra layer?

moto211 · 02-13-08, 04:14 PM

the 3870 does have a 512-bit ring bus. its a 256-bit card with ring bus memory interface design making a 512-bit ring bus. 256-bit each way.

glockjs · 02-13-08, 04:52 PM

ah that makes sense. ok so basically the stats up and down are the same because there is no xt and the company didn't get the "memo" x.O

Shiggity · 02-13-08, 07:22 PM

They need to make the naming process more complicated imo. I almost understand this.

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