Ati's Crossfire

[Lord_Behemoth]

Ati has revealed their latest thrump card against nVidia's most loved and hated SLI.

The new technology will be called 'crossfire' and will make use of a mastercard and a little sidekick. We will be able to keep
our trustworthy radeons but we will have to buy another more advanced card to serve as mastercard. The new technology will
make it possible to render the screen in 3 different ways.

First off, Alternate Frame Rendering. The mastercard will calculate all the material and the sidekick will supply the image.
Second, Super Tiling. Every chip will calculate a part of the screen and Third, Split Screen. Just like nVidia's SLI, one card will
render one half of the screen and the other card will do the other half.

The third way of rendering seems a little useless to me, since the one card will obiously be lot more powerfull, still both cards
will have to (more or less) do the same thing.


the linkies ofcourse, here (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23415) and here (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23414)

[KamisoriX]

That's just AMR renamed :D

[Sepht]

I'd just like to add, in case you guys didn't notice.
ATi's Crossfire is A) Cheaper, they are pricing it comparable to Nforce4 Ultras, not Nforce4SLIs, thats about a 33% difference in price; 33% cheaper.

and B- YOU DON'T NEED THE SAME CARD. UNlike NVidia's SLi, YOU CAN USE 2 Different cards!! oy, can't believe you guys didn't catch onto that

-anandtech sources
"The price point will be competitive with nForce4 Ultra (not SLI) motherboards, thanks to more aggressive chipset pricing on behalf of ATI."
"ATI does not have dedicated silicon on their GPUs for chip-to-chip communications as NVIDIA does. ATI bills this as a positive aspect of their solution, as their CrossFire solution is capable of running cards with two different (and even different speed) GPUs. NVIDIA's SLI solution is restricted to running on not only the same model of card, but cards with the same video BIOS. Timing is crucial when hooking the two GPUs together for SLI. In fact, an out-of-spec SLI bridge can even cause problems"

EDIT: B+)= B) B-=B-

[Strawberry knight]

Omg is that Sepht ? :Oo:

[Sepht]

Hey, I have 2 other pretty big posts going up. These are like 1hour+ of work.(well the one going up in a few minutes is), the next one should only take like 15min onto the 15 min I've done for it.
how you been?

[3izzarre]

Originally posted by Strawberry knight@Jun 20 2005, 07:55 PM
Omg is that Sepht ? :Oo:
YEY Sepht is back :clap:



















and still a ATI fanboy :lol: (only joking m8)