Crossfire to appear (finally) in August

[FarFarAway]

Well it seems finally ATI are getting their asses in gear and getting crossfire out. About bloody time too.

BOARDS ARE getting readied, ATI is working on drivers and trying to produce enough master graphic cards and slowly but surely is getting ready to launch its answer to SLI. Yes it’s almost a year late, but still ATI can offer many things that Nvidia failed to offer with its implementation.

So looks like we may actually see some crossfire stuff very soon

But then making a good point: will ATI have it stable at release?

Nvidia offers stable drivers that will work in most of the games, is getting toward release 80 drivers and has the fastest SLI platform powered with two 7800GTX cards. Nvidia is catching up on some of the ideas as ATI has introduced some very interesting features and ways of rendering.

Well thats good. Nvidia need to learn and get the patches released and make sure they can compete.

You may be able to see some beta hardware and drivers before that but as we suggested back in April and May, ATI will first release Crossfire and then will follow up with R520 or should we say with two R520 boards breaking some 3Dmark 05 records.

So yeah maybe a view of 2 x r520's would be nice to see. Kicking some serious 3dMark records. The hopefully that would speed up the release of the 7800U....etc etc

The question still remains: will ATI do a paper release, or will they match nvidia and actually have these in the shops??

Anyway, full article The Inquirer

 

[FalconFX]

well i may have just missed it but i didnt see any crossfire Benchmarks, did you ?

 

[balilu]

there are some preview like from Xtremesystems and stuff but they are still previews