(Tech) Nuevas Ati Radeon 38x0

Bueno después de toda la batalla que hubo este año por las tarjetas parece que la cosa se normaliza para las Ati que viene perdiendo hace ya un tiempo con sus HD 2900 XT .
Nvidia tuvo el liderazgo todo este tiempo aplastando a las ati cuyo hardware es más grotesco ( y con más potencial creo yo) pero que no se supo utilizar no se si debido a problemas con los drivers o porque no estaban preparados para competir.
Ultimamente las Geforce 8800GTS se vendieron como panes y ahora encima salen las 8800GT que sin duda son las tarjetas del año y que le ganan en precio-rendimiento a las ultra.

A todo esto Ati mueve sus peones poniendo en juego esta tarjeta:
La Ati Radeon 38x0 ,(3870 y 3850).
Era de esperase que esta tarjeta tirara un poco menos que las GT, pero en lo que gana ati es en el rendimiento que tiene, con un calor mínimo y mucho menos gasto de poder que las anteriores atis 2900XT. Aparte por el precio 200 US$, que es un 50 más barata que la GT de Nvidia puede llegar a pelear por el puesto.
Otra gran novedad es el soporte para 3 y 4 tarjetas en crossfire!!

666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process 256bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface Ring Bus Memory Controller Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at high display resolutions Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture 320 stream processing units Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors 128-bit floating point precision for all operations Command processor for reduced CPU overhead Shader instruction and constant caches Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle Up to 128 textures per pixel Fully associative multi-level texture cache design DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192) Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1) Lossless color compression (up to 8:1) 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support Physics processing support Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10 / 10.1 Shader Model 4.0 Geometry Shaders Stream Output Integer and Bitwise Operations Alpha to Coverage Constant Buffers State Objects Texture Arrays Dynamic Geometry Acceleration High performance vertex cache Programmable tessellation unit Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance Anti-aliasing features Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel) Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling Temporal anti-aliasing Gamma correct Super AA (CrossFire configurations only) All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering CrossFire Multi-GPU Technology Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs Integrated compositing engine High performance dual channel interconnect

Texture filtering features 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel) 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering Bicubic filtering sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma) Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF) Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Platform Two independent display controllers Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display Full 30-bit display processing Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays Fast, glitch-free mode switching Hardware cursor Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI) Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536 HDMI output support Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080 Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution Integrated Xilleon HDTV encoder Provides high quality analog TV output (component / S-video / composite) Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions Underscan and overscan compensation HD decode for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats Flawless DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-Ray playback Motion compensation and IDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transformation) HD video processing Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing De-blocking and noise reduction filtering Edge enhancement Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) Bad edit correction High fidelity gamma correction, color correction, color space conversion, and scaling MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time VGA mode support on all display outputs PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface OpenGL 2.0 support