Kunaak
02-09-2008, 04:41 PM
catalyst 8.2 is suppose to arrive on febuary 13 according to article, and then catalyst 8.3 sometimes in mid march.
cat 8.2 isnt much of anything - just another driver.
but cat 8.3 is where they supposedly will enable 4 way crossfire with the 3870X2 and maybe 3 way crossfire with 3 x 38xx cards.
Version 8.3 will surface, as the number indicates, in mid-March, but this release is actually not in line with other Catalyst revisions, since it was in heavy testing and coding for the past couple of months. Catalyst 8.3 is an important milestone for AMD in 2008 and might mean much more than just another driver. Catalyst 8.3 is finally going to deliver support for up to four GPUs within one system and we will be able to see whether multi-GPU setups have a future or whether this is just another a marketing bubble.
Expect hardware review sites to publish their Crossfire X reviews in the second week of March when Germany's CeBit concludes.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/06/amd_crossfire_x_support_for_quad_gpus_to_arrive_in _march/
lets just hope they dont drop the ball completly on this.
its ridiculous that you can get 2 x 3870x2's today, yet have to wait months to be able to actually use them.
cat 8.2 isnt much of anything - just another driver.
but cat 8.3 is where they supposedly will enable 4 way crossfire with the 3870X2 and maybe 3 way crossfire with 3 x 38xx cards.
Version 8.3 will surface, as the number indicates, in mid-March, but this release is actually not in line with other Catalyst revisions, since it was in heavy testing and coding for the past couple of months. Catalyst 8.3 is an important milestone for AMD in 2008 and might mean much more than just another driver. Catalyst 8.3 is finally going to deliver support for up to four GPUs within one system and we will be able to see whether multi-GPU setups have a future or whether this is just another a marketing bubble.
Expect hardware review sites to publish their Crossfire X reviews in the second week of March when Germany's CeBit concludes.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/06/amd_crossfire_x_support_for_quad_gpus_to_arrive_in _march/
lets just hope they dont drop the ball completly on this.
its ridiculous that you can get 2 x 3870x2's today, yet have to wait months to be able to actually use them.