Crossfire vs SLI, Radeon Express 3200 Clash
- CrossFire vs SLI - Conclusion
Author: Luka Rakamaric
Date: 24 Mar 2006
Conclusion
CrossFire on the new motherboards showed us that it is a maturing technology, capable of performing as well as NVIDIA?s SLI. What ATi will have to work on is availability, and pricing. All CrossFire boards cost significantly more than the SLI counterparts. When you combine that with a near impossibility of attaining a latest Master card you get almost no market penetration. New cards from ATi should make it possible to run two "slave" cards on the new RD580 boards, because they will have the composite chip required to combine the image form the two cards on die, meaning inside the GPU itself. At the moment, R580 chips don?t have that feature, and we were unable to run two ordinary X1900XTX cards in CrossFire.
Click on the links below to see these boards in action in our CeBIT Lab. Special thanks for Sapphire crew for providing us with some stuff for testing (CF master and slave cards).
DFI RDX3200 - 1
DFI RDX3200 - 2
Sapphire PI-A9RX480
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