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Sneak Peek at ATi's CrossFire Graphics System
Kez writes "While at Computex in Taipei HEXUS.net grabbed some benchmarks of an ATi CrossFire powered system. They have since had the chance to reconstruct a similar system and perform the same benchmarks with other cards and configurations to give us an idea of how CrossFire will perform. Obviously, CrossFire's performance will almost certainly change before release time, but in the very least the article provides an idea of what to expect. Interestingly, from these tests it looks like Nvidia's SLI may remain top-dog for graphics performance."
Will it cost more than the computer alone?
Hosting 20G hd, 1Tb bw! ssh $7.95
ATi should borrow their briliiant advert's song:
Crossfire, you'll get caught up in the... Crossfire!
The 3DMark05 benchmark is generally a good indicator of 3DMark05 performance. Any similarity to real gaming is coincidental.
Who cares? SGI is dead anyway
I believe that has changed with the modern line up of ATI cards. I could be wrong however, but I think that the differences in AA quality were more prominent with the older generation cards from both manufacturers.
The point of a benchmark is not to 'balance things out'. The ATI card is pushing more pixels in 6x mode. Period. Whether it takes a bigger performance hit or not isn't the issue, it's doing calculations on more pixels, which will affect it's score in an adverse way.