News: CrossFire in action

[Frisch]

The CrossFire seems to give 100% :woot:

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon FX-55 (2.6 GHz)
Grandmars RD480 Eng Sample ( it's chinese)
2x512 MB GB GeIL DDR400 (CL2-2-2-5)

Radeon X850 XT
Radeon X800 Pro
Radeon X700 Pro

http://edb-tidende.dk/a_pic/crossfire_cracked/x850.png

http://edb-tidende.dk/a_pic/crossfire_cracked/x800.png

http://edb-tidende.dk/a_pic/crossfire_cracked/x700pro.png

Links, source :http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/atixfcracked-1.htm ( it's chinese)
Other link, danish site :http://edb-tidende.dk/article.php?id=36

[perkam]

I'm bored of the reviews...unless i see mobos for this in quantities, I really wont care much.

Perkam

[Frisch]

unless i see mobos for this in quantities, I really wont care much.

Perkam

I'm not proud of this link, but here it is. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23919

[krille]

That last pic is very interesting. Should 100% boost even be possible in theory? I mean, wouldn't driver overhead increase with dual cards? And what about coordination and of the cards communicating with eachother should "waste" clock cycles, etc. No?

Seems like they've achieved one hell of a high efficiency though, and in Doom 3 of all games! A great big :thumbsup: to them, they really deserve it! Hope this puts some more pressure on nVidia and their upcoming multi-threaded drivers. Also, hope this pattern might repeat with R520 under non-cpu-limited settings.

If things keep up, I will go XFire/SLI for sure!

[n00b 0f l337]

Yeah that looks pretty damn sweet.... So if 10k is easy in 3dmark05 with an r520... Then 20k? Wow.... I see a lot of crap being shoved up nvidia's gaping..... ........

Yeah, you get were I'm a goin'.

[DilTech]

You won't see 20k in 3dmark05 anytime soon regardless of gpu power. It hits a cpu bottleneck once you reach a certain point in tests 2 and 3, and only 1 will go any further, making that big of a leap literally physically impossible. Even with a 3.6 ghz FX-55, tests 2 and 3 were cpu bottlenecked with SLi 7800gtx, so there's no way it'll be any different with these unfortunately. Too bad too, considering it'd be nice to see.

[n00b 0f l337]

Hmmmm.... So maybe this and a dual core yonah chip will be fine... How much cpu you need for no bottlenecK?

[DilTech]

It's unknown, no one's ever broken it AFAIK.

Also, dual core doesn't help out any with 3dmark05's videotest, only the cpu test. Thus, even with a dual cored yonah, it still won't see 20k.

[n00b 0f l337]

I didnt mean dual cores is whats needed, but the yonah's will be able to do a lot of work when put up in the 3 ghz range.. The dothans do insanity already.

[Magnj]

yuuuuuuumy...Dual x800XL's here I come :)

[$a1Ty]

I'm bored of the reviews...unless i see mobos for this in quantities, I really wont care much.

Perkam
yeah i'm with perkam, reading all this great stuff about r520 and xfire, but where the hell is all of it?????

[krille]

n00b_of_l33t > You must realize +99% performance is ONLY potentially possible at all at highly GPU limited settings. Where even two XFired cards are GPU limited. If we'd see double the performance in 05 with R520 XFire, I would be greatly disappointed in ATI.

Magnj > Yay! At last! Extreme FPS Retro Graphics Rocks!

[Magnj]

Magnj > Yay! At last! Extreme FPS Retro Graphics Rocks!
:mad:

[krille]

:mad:
ROFL. I hope you know what I meant, I didn't mean to be rude or anything. :toast:

If you don't: All I was trying to imply, was that you might be better off getting even a single 6600GT than XFire two X8xx series cards, for the simple reason they're stoneage SM2.0b compliant cards, while nVidia's last gen supported SM3.0. The future lies in SM3.0, and you might not be able to enjoy good graphics without it, no offense meant. ;)

[Frisch]

I'm bored of the reviews...
Perkam

I want a chip implant.