ATI Announces CrossFire...

jamesclarke555 · 31-05-2005, 20:45

ATI has now officially announced their new CrossFire technology which will enable users to install 2 graphics cards in their PCI-Express PC.

There are previews around already, probably the most interesting is the one over at Anandtech where they've managed to somehow get a chart showing the relative performance of CrossFire compared to a single card setup when running Doom3, and some photos of the Catalyst Control Center CrossFire panels.

Here's a list of some of the others:

ATI also has a new section opened up on their website dedicated to CrossFire, you can check that out here.

Richard M · 31-05-2005, 20:51

Saw that Anand benchmark earlier - 86% increase in performance!

It's looking much better imo because it works with all games, plus it doesn't need a restart to enable/disable multi rendering.

jamesclarke555 · 31-05-2005, 20:54

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Saw that Anand benchmark earlier - 86% increase in performance!

It's looking much better imo because it works with all games, plus it doesn't need a restart to enable/disable multi rendering.

Not only does it work with all games right out the box but also, you can mix and match cards, unlike SLI

TheBlueRaja · 31-05-2005, 21:31

Which is all very sweet IF you have a X800 card already (which i do) and its ALSO PCI-Express (which it isnt).

So even though i have a high end card i would need to spend a fortune to get crossfire.

Not to mention ATi's legendary driver support on top of that and you have a big No no IMO.

Unless your loaded.