Chicago (IL) – Palit today announced a new flagship for its Radeon graphics card series. Based on AMD’s dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 design, the graphics card comes with two massive fans and two heat pipes wrapped into a 3-slot package.

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When we talk about high-end enthusiast graphics cards, it is all about the latest and greatest tech, performance and bragging rights. And if you are looking for such a card, you may find something interesting at Palit.

The company just announced its Revolution 700 Deluxe, which runs on two 750 MHz GPUs like the 4870 X2 reference design, but offers 2 GB of GDDR5 memory that runs at 3800 MHz instead of 3600 MHz. There are two PWM fans as well as four heat pipes to cool the entire package, which comes in a 3-slot design. What makes this designs special is the fact that there are four interface types instead of the usual three: The Palit card interfaces include DisplayPort, HDMI, Dual-link DVI, and D-Sub (VGA).

Spokesman Darren Polkowski told TG Daily the card will retail for a price similar to other 4870 X2 cards, which means that we should see a retail price of somewhere between $500 and $580.

I thought you guys meant triple-GPU :(

Nov 05, 2008 18:17     

What a bummer. Still interesting tho
STorpedo report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +1

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this is a bad idea

Nov 05, 2008 18:54     

I don't know about everyone else, but I couldn't run Quad fire on my maximus extreme with this card... it could cover up the 2nd x 16 slot, and I can't use the last one on the board because my case is too small... taking up 2 slots is enough, at least they didn't put the VGA output on the 3rd slot, so if you decide to water cool it. you can cut off the 3rd slot cover if you feel like running 2 of these.

suavey report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +3

yeah you are cause this is a great idea

Nov 05, 2008 22:12     

see above
vic report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -2

Sweet

Nov 06, 2008 00:43     

I actually think that this is a badass idea, since getting proper cooling for such cards (I own a 3870x2) is quite hard... Till date, I haven't found a cooling solution that was built specifically for such cards (and by 'such cards', I mean the dual core GPU's, particularly the 3870x2 and the 4870x2). Nice to know that, though it'll occupy three slots, it'll look monstrous and actually will cool better... And I noticed that its got only a single DVI port... Shouldn't be an issue, so long as one of your two (assuming you do use 2) monitors supports the HDMI interface...

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Not that good!

Nov 06, 2008 11:41     

3 Slot Graphic card! It nice to see the technology is growing. But one of my 2 Digital LCD Monitors will be very upset with the Single VGA and Single DVI connector it has. Won't be good for Gaming.
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just a headline catcher

Nov 06, 2008 23:28     

meh, Palit is not as well known as many other card makers. So they are just trying to catch some headlines with this. Obviously, it's working.
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