ATI announces Crossfire Multi-GPU platform

Taipei - ATI catches up with Nvidia and offers gamers a platform to combine two graphics cards within one PC. "Crossfire" is on display at Computex and will be shipping in July.

ATI’s multi graphics processor technology is late to the party considering the fact that Nvidia has shipped well over a million Scalable Link Interface (SLI) capable nForce chipsets within the past six months and dominates the high-end gaming scene. However, ATI says that its Crossfire technology delivers "the best performance, image quality and game compatibility in the industry."

In contrast to Nvidia’s SLI, calla for special software support in order to take advantage of the increased graphics horsepower, ATI said Crossfire "automatically works with every game, new or old, without requiring special game profiles or driver updates."

ATI did not say which chipsets will be Crossfire-capable, but advertised its Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire Edition as "optimal" platform. Boards carrying the chipset will be offered by Asus, DFI, ECS, Gigabyte, MSI, PC Partner, Sapphire and TUL. Crossfire Edition cards will be available for example from ATI as well as Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire, TUL, and Visiontek.

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