New ATI 5000 Series Crossfire Question

I plan on getting one ait hd 4890 for my new build but its not going to take full advantage of dx11, but the new 5000 series will be taking full advantage of dx11... so my question is can i xfire the 4890 with a new 5000 series and be able to get the full effects of dx11 when its released?

maybe not. they used different chip right? but who knows, maybe ATi can develop some drivers to make it happen.
anyway just wait when the real things comes out. you will get your answers by then

maybe use the 4890 for physics

Not that you could anyway.

you can use 4890 as dedicated physic card? i thought that this physics are nvidia's thing.

You can just wait 1 more day and then ask questions if you have any. Ati will unveil their 5000 series Thursday morning

But it has the disadvantage of AMD's marketing department.

Its probably going to be like the old days when you had a 2D card, a 3D card (voodoo) and a DVD accellerator card. But insead we will have a Nvidia card for physx, an ATI card for Havok and a Intel larrabee for god knows what.

That's the 2006 version of HavokFX that never really got past the demo stage, Intel bought it and totally changed the methodology.

Havok phyics now is nothing like it was in 2006, and by 2008 ATi said it was dead.

The current Havok is OpenCL based an is focused on hardware above the X1K series, and likely won't even be code for the HD2K and GF8&9 series.

As for multi-card situations, there's not much detail on it yet, most early trials are 1 GPU.

As for Xfiring HD5K and HD4K, nearly impossible due to the changes in architecture.

It's pretty safe to say no Xfire for different generations, only possible use would be general style computing.

Any news on the probable release of new cards from NVIDIA and ATI?

yea i can hold off no problem, just wanted to know if that would work... i wonder how much better dx11 is going to be then 10? 10 is much better then 9 so kind of expecting another large leap

yea. i heard it was something like that. the dx 11 is strictly superset to dx 10.1 then the look should be not to far off from what we can see from dx 10. but the dx 11 ease the shader rendering with the new shader (or something like that) thus reduce the power consumption of the card.....

at least thats how i understand it should work

yeah but why drop money now and later? Even count price drops on the new cards if your going to get another card to crossfire now with the 4000 then move to the 5000 series within a few moneys your wasting money.

order a 4650 till the 5 series cards are released

So might Havok, because it will work off of OpenCL, which I'm sure you know is an Open API, so that may or may not be a defining characteristic, but like Havok, PhysX is ALSO a proprietary Engine, so you can use both, as was the case with GRAW which used Havok for the underlying Physics and PhysX for the add-on debris physics.

Actually it's not only ATi that refuses to support it, it's Intel and S3, that also refuse to support the restriction that a CUDA layer must be supported by them and give nV access to all their hardware calls, but even nVidia won't support it the way Ageia originally did, now limiting PPU use, and also refusing to allow you to use it on other people's systems if you do not use an nVidia card as the graphics rendering card. So it's not like it's only one company not playing nice, it was nV trying to use the limited PhysX install base to leverage other companies to give up their IP, and that wasn't about to happen, and in so doing they themselves limited the adoption and future of PhysX (Novodex) which was already limited (compared to Havok) before Ageia bought them and then nV bought them.