Wednesday, February 7th 2007
R600 will support quad-GPU CrossFire
AMD (ATI) has been working on the quad-GPU problem ever since NVIDIA released their 7900GX2. AMD has officially solved it, with their wonder-GPU, the R600. The R600, with it's high clocks and GDDR4, will support quad-GPU CrossFire. Of course, the requirements for this will be substantial to say the least. Getting a motherboard with four PCI Express ports, and a power supply that will run four high-performance graphics cards like the R600, will cost a lot of money.
Source:
The Inquirer
37 Comments on R600 will support quad-GPU CrossFire
- You would need a motherboard with at least four PCIe x8 slots, wich dosent exsist.
- You can just buy an Addon PSU wich costs 50$ and can run a single R600. The Main PSU only has to have around 24A to run the rest of the PC without the card(s).
- The CPU is what is really the problem with this - hardware wise. Its not that there arent enough cores, but that while the R600 drivers will support Quad-Xfire for ALL games ( because they are specifically designed for every game), only one Core on the CPU will be used for gaming. Alan Wake May be an exception.
- Drivers. Quad-SLi for nVidia performs worse than Standard SLi, wheras anyone who bought two 7950 GX2 and thought they would recieve a performance boost from Quad-SLi was dead wrong because nVidia never remmembered to create drivers to support Quad-SLi. Very eratating. I wonder why no class action law suits havent been filed against nVidia for this one..
So, while it may be possible to link up four R600's in Quad-Xfire, it is likely the drivers will only be good enough for two. That means that there is not much reason to buy a Quad-PCIe x16 motherboard, unless u have faith that support for Quad GPU on 4 slots will be well supported some day.
I see this as more as a marketing thing AMD says "Look at me I have the highest 3dmark06 score"
that way if one psu blows, it only takes one component with it ;)
lots of wires, but i bet they could be routed on the non space side of the case (generally the right side)
lol, can you imagine having an outlet for your monitor, printer, main psu, psu1, psu2, psu3, psu4, speakers? that's eight, and i would really want separate circuits on the top and bottom plug so i could have one surge for just gpus, and aother surge for the usual
safest option imo
I'd rather have them make dual core GPU's (much like how both AMD and Intel are making their processors). It would save everyone a lot of money and a lot of space... if not, people will have to start making use of external cases like Asus's just for graphics cards and their PSU(s).
And thats true about the motion blurring, you cant compare tv shows to computer games