On to the wibble, that is
CROSSFIRE X IS nearing its launch date - video cards and motherboards are dropping in the middle of November - and that means that we're seeing little drips and drabs of information hitting the web just as we've been deluged with 8800 leaks in the last few days.
A new slide apparently nicked from a Gigabyte presentation shows four-card Crossfire in action - although dodges the question of just how well this works by addressing monitor support rather than gaming performance. However, the slide is worth a glmpse if only to check our four
ATI cards lined up next to each other on a board. Bizarre, and also noisy, we suspect. Here
is said slide.
However, the performance issue is addressed in this '
no attribution' graphic . Quad Crossfire X is quoted as upwards of 3x performance, whilst triple Crossfire is quoted at about 2.5x. If we were being snarky, we'd point out to you that you can get 2.5x Crossfire performance simply by loading up with 8800s rather than 2900s. Rimshot please.
Meanwhile, the info-mavens at VR-Zone seem to have gotten their hands
on data that suggests that Hybrid crossfire is going to give a 1.5x performance increase when pairing a 2400 discrete card with a 2300 IGP. This great for anyone with a 2400 that cares about Crossfire i.e. no one.
Based on this data, and some hunches, we suspect that Hybrid Crossfire is going to do next to nothing for high-end owners, which is a shame.
Lastly, don't miss
more slides from Gigabyte detailing their new AMD platform, which is pretty much Crossfire X by the numbers. But with a gaudy colour scheme.
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