No Master Card For Radeon X1300 and X1600s
AnandTech is reporting that ATI Radeon X1300 and X1600 Crossfire cards won't require a dedicated master card. Instead, ATI will release a driver update enabling Crossfire over the PCI-Express bus. No word on what kind of performance hit there will be under this solution.
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Indeed. Am I naive for expecting two video cards to result in something close to double performance? I guess having two cards does lower your heating bill...
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Who cares about the 6800 and the 7800 when ati has the 9800 it's a whole 2000 better than nvidias best and it's much cheaper. ;)
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High res and AA is where SLI shines. However when you start comparing different generations of cards it muddies the picture. Theres no question that 2 7800GTX's are faster that one in high res+AA situations. However, there will be some driver overhead to manage the two cards.
Not only that, but today's high end cards are already so powerful that in many cases the CPU is holding back performance - not the video. So if you add an extra card it may not provide as much benefit as you would expect. High res+AA is the only case that can be made for a SLI setup IMO.
Having said that, I'll just stick with one card =p
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