AMD Quad-CrossFire - CrossFireX Performance Preview @ PC Per

**MIG-31** · Feb 21, 2008, 07:07 AM

Preview: PC Perspective
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It's rather funny that until today, the technology behind CrossFireX was really supposed to be some kind of secret. The idea of plugging in more than two GPUs into a multi-GPU system for AMD/ATI is actually brand new in the modern hardware era. Ever since we first saw ATI graphics boards with pairs of CrossFire connectors on them we were told to expect the ability to scale with three and four cards in the future. The only problem was the future just never caught up to us. Until now that is.

Zardon · Feb 21, 2008, 10:50 AM

Very disappointed with this testing and the stipulations AMD made.

"I should start out my testing notes by being very up front: AMD had some requests for us when sending out the components for the CrossFireX testing system. First, they wanted the system to be showcased on an AMD platform: AMD Phenom processor and 790FX motherboard. Second, they had a handful of games that they wanted to show the performance and scaling of and asked that we show those titles for this particular article. Lucky for me, all of the games that AMD asked us to test (Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Crysis and UT3) were already in my standard GPU testing suite, so that was a given. After that though, I was told we could do all the testing we wanted on any platforms, games, etc that we wanted."

Feb 21, 2008, 07:07 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	AMD Quad-CrossFire - CrossFireX Performance Preview @ PC Per Preview: PC Perspective _____________ It's rather funny that until today, the technology behind CrossFireX was really supposed to be some kind of secret. The idea of plugging in more than two GPUs into a multi-GPU system for AMD/ATI is actually brand new in the modern hardware era. Ever since we first saw ATI graphics boards with pairs of CrossFire connectors on them we were told to expect the ability to scale with three and four cards in the future. The only problem was the future just never caught up to us. Until now that is. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Feb 21, 2008, 10:50 AM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Very disappointed with this testing and the stipulations AMD made. "I should start out my testing notes by being very up front: AMD had some requests for us when sending out the components for the CrossFireX testing system. First, they wanted the system to be showcased on an AMD platform: AMD Phenom processor and 790FX motherboard. Second, they had a handful of games that they wanted to show the performance and scaling of and asked that we show those titles for this particular article. Lucky for me, all of the games that AMD asked us to test (Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Crysis and UT3) were already in my standard GPU testing suite, so that was a given. After that though, I was told we could do all the testing we wanted on any platforms, games, etc that we wanted."