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Relax and take a deep breath, The AMD folks have been leaking little tidbits of info out on this for awile now that makes it fairly obvious that the GPU interconect is not Xfire dependent at all but a PCI bridg chip still is needed for both GPU's to be fed at same time by the MB. The R700 will have to outperform 2 4870's wich really completly on the pci express bus. AMD has said many times that the interconnect tech. is superior to the R680 and I have no reason to doubt it. I Dont realy understand why so many are insisting that becouse it has a PLX Switch that its exactly like the 3870x2. There is no way at this day and time for them to do this without a switch, but that dose not mean it is the only link between GPU's.
Edit: actualy Im not sure that 2 4870's really completely on pcie bus There may be advances made here as well, but it has to be more dependent on it than R700
Last edited by G0ldBr1ck; 06-28-2008 at 02:09 PM.
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