Just when you thought the graphics card wars between Nvidia and ATI had got a little sour, ATI has announced Crossfire, its answer to Nvidia'a SLI technology where 2 graphics cards perform the gaming workload instead of one.ATI is pushing Crossfire out as the most flexible multi-gpu setup available. If you have an existing X850 Radeon card, it can be paired with the Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition card. Likewise, any Radeon X800 series graphics card with 128 Mb of ram can be paired with the Crossfire equivalent. Of course, you will need a capable motherboard and ATI has also announced the Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire ready motherboards from partners such as ASUS, DFI, ECS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PC Partner, Sapphire.
No prices mentioned as of yet but either way it's certain not to appeal to the casual gamer.
From the press release:
Customers will have plenty of options and flexibility in choosing graphics cards for their CrossFire systems. The Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition cards, with 256MB of graphics memory can be paired with any standard Radeon X850 based graphics card. The Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition graphics cards, which come with either 128 MB or 256 MB of graphics memory, can be paired with any Radeon X800 series graphics card. The standard Radeon X800 and Radeon X850 cards can be purchased new or can be ones the customer already has.
With its amazing system and graphics performance, the resulting CrossFire system is a dream machine for gamers. Whether they game professionally or for fun, they are sure to be the envy of their friends. And with almost 1 million Radeon X800- and Radeon X850-based graphics cards already sold, many gamers are already CrossFire ready!
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