masterchief
02-06-2005, 12:57
As mentioned yesterday, ATI is fighting back against Nvidia SLI with CrossFire, its answer for power gamers that need twin graphics cards. The press launch is in a couple of hours here at Computex in Taiwan, so will mostly likely have happened when you read this for all but the early risers.
The plus side to Crossfire is that you don't need exactly the same cards, so you can pick different X850 cards for instance. The downside is you need the CrossFire chipset on your motherboard, so in the early stages that will mean replacing your graphics card and motherboard. That's a big investment for what is promised to be higher performance.
His_x850_crossfireHIS are showing a pair of X850 cards at Computex running on an AMD-based RD480 motherboard, both of which should be out late June or early July, and claimed a 3DMork 05 score of 9643, which is massive compared to single card systems and a touch higher than we've seen for SLI boards in our independent labs tests.
I got them to run the test again in front of me, and it came back at just over 9700. They assured me there had been no tweaks, but we'll get the boards into the labs as soon as possible anyway .
Finalmente a Ati responde ao SLI da Nvidia.
Fonte: http://labs.pcw.co.uk/computex/
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23569
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzc4LDI=
http://vnuuk.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/his_x850_crossfire.jpg
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/ATdongle.JPG
The plus side to Crossfire is that you don't need exactly the same cards, so you can pick different X850 cards for instance. The downside is you need the CrossFire chipset on your motherboard, so in the early stages that will mean replacing your graphics card and motherboard. That's a big investment for what is promised to be higher performance.
His_x850_crossfireHIS are showing a pair of X850 cards at Computex running on an AMD-based RD480 motherboard, both of which should be out late June or early July, and claimed a 3DMork 05 score of 9643, which is massive compared to single card systems and a touch higher than we've seen for SLI boards in our independent labs tests.
I got them to run the test again in front of me, and it came back at just over 9700. They assured me there had been no tweaks, but we'll get the boards into the labs as soon as possible anyway .
Finalmente a Ati responde ao SLI da Nvidia.
Fonte: http://labs.pcw.co.uk/computex/
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23569
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzc4LDI=
http://vnuuk.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/his_x850_crossfire.jpg
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/ATdongle.JPG