AMD Prepares 'CrossFire X' Technology

panchoman · Oct 16, 2007

well im sure some of the lesser cards in your schenario would act as ppu's, while the load is split between the more powerful cards.

mandelore · Oct 16, 2007

Helvetica said:
This is awesome! I own a 2900XT! Hopefully i can get a 2900 pro for cheap and have crossfire!! AMD FTW

orrr... flash the pro to an xt and crossfire 2 XT's??

panchoman · Oct 16, 2007

mandelore said:
orrr... flash the pro to an xt and crossfire 2 XT's??

was just gonna say that lol. ditto..

JrRacinFan · Oct 16, 2007

Sounds pretty nifty but ......

Solaris17 said:
thats what i was thinking if the onboard did physics that would be great now though i dont buy boards with onboard graphics because the oc options usually arent that grwat but if they bring us an amazing board ment for enthusiasts with onboard making it do physics would be awsome.

Wouldn't that be the same as the cpu doing all the physics work?

imperialreign · Oct 17, 2007

hopefully once they finally get these chipsets and drivers running, they can develop drivers for this technology on some other ATI Crossfire supported chipsets . . . like . . . i975X

KennyT772 · Oct 17, 2007

JrRacinFan said:
Sounds pretty nifty but ......

Wouldn't that be the same as the cpu doing all the physics work?

Have you been keeping up on integrated video chips? Some of the newest ati based chips use a 4 pixel pipeline design, with I think 4 shaders total. Basically a x1300 design.

tvdang7 · Oct 17, 2007

few questions i have are
is this amd cpu's only? probably.
can we overclock seperately?
ill switching between intergrated and hardware affect anything?

hmmmm

DaMulta · Nov 7, 2007

So what do you guys think?

4 HD2900XT possable?

erocker · Nov 7, 2007

I think that the fans in the things would suck one into another creating a multi-crossfire implosion!!! I think it would have to be one big motherboard. Might as well turn that spare bedroom into a small power plant to power the rig.

imperialreign · Nov 7, 2007

ATI's architecture could possibly do 4 GPUs. 2 for rendering, 1 for physics - not sure what the third would be doing . . . maybe running backup for the first card that fails :laugh:

I don't know where you'll find a mobo with 4 x16 slots, with a chipset that can negotiate that much traffic on the PCIE BUS - unless they were all slowed down to x4.

Good luck in your quest for the holy grail, man! :toast:

DaMulta · Nov 7, 2007

imperialreign said:
ATI's architecture could possibly do 4 GPUs. 2 for rendering, 1 for physics - not sure what the third would be doing . . . maybe running backup for the first card that fails

I don't know where you'll find a mobo with 4 x16 slots, with a chipset that can negotiate that much traffic on the PCIE BUS - unless they were all slowed down to x4.

Good luck in your quest for the holy grail, man!

Ummm the new 790 chipset has 4 PCI-E slots for this.

Wile E · Nov 7, 2007

DaMulta said:
Ummm the new 790 chipset has 4 PCI-E slots for this.

And the bandwidth aspect is taken care of by using PCIe 2.0

DaMulta · Nov 7, 2007

All I know is I have heard of support for the HD2600, and RV670. I just havent heard anything about the HD2900XTs.

Wile E · Nov 7, 2007

DaMulta said:
All I know is I have heard of support for the HD2600, and RV670. I just havent heard anything about the HD2900XTs.

But the interface itself supports more throughput, meaning it won't be as easily choked with 4 cards as a PCIe 1.0 board would.

DaMulta · Nov 7, 2007

The way u do so I have seen is swap lanes with the internal hook ups. You use one cable between each card instead of two.

The DD waterblock is a singal slot cooler right?

Wile E said:
But the interface itself supports more throughput, meaning it won't be as easily choked with 4 cards as a PCIe 1.0 board would.

I wonder how much a quad CPU will help this as well.

JrRacinFan · Nov 7, 2007

KennyT772 said:
Have you been keeping up on integrated video chips? Some of the newest ati based chips use a 4 pixel pipeline design, with I think 4 shaders total. Basically a x1300 design.

Just wanted to say thank you for that tidbit of information. No, I really don't keep up with integrated. Although, this peice of technology does sound very interesting.

imperialreign · Nov 7, 2007

Ummm the new 790 chipset has 4 PCI-E slots for this.

I honestly haven't been keeping up with the newer chipsets, although I knew PCIE 2.0 was soon. That should prove interesting, as I haven't heard ATI mention any type of 4 card setup, yet.

Ravenas · Nov 7, 2007

This doesn't really impress me at all...It makes me ask the question, why wasn't this done a long time ago?

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