SourceATI's competitor NVIDIA has sat down and put together a presentation dealing with the shortcomings of CrossFire. Problems like limited resolution and game issues are listed. Not only do they cover the CrossFire video cards, but also problems with ATI's dual VGA motherboard chipsets.
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Originaly thanks to Afterburner for good find
Last edited by Cooper; 09-18-2005 at 11:52 AM.
Afterburner's(and that means Afterburner's) scoop, eh?
Still, interesting read!
HeHeH.....I was jus about to post this on a seperate ThreadCheers anyhow......
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Yea, it was his scoop, so i felt it'd be only fair that he post it...but if its one thing i could never discourage, its cooper's consistency in posting newsOriginally Posted by slider99
Afterburner's(and that means Afterburner's
Still, interesting read!
Good Job
Perkam
Bah I bet thats all fixed thru drivers. Remember SLI has been out for quite a while, AMR is new.
If you have a cooling question or concern feel free to contact me.
AMR was one of the possible names ATI was thinking for Crossfire, but we now know for sure that its crossfire.
I can see how you could get a tad confused though as Nvidia mentions AFR not AMR, which is Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) which is the primary rendering mode used by SLI and one of three used by crossfire along with supertiliing and scissor.
Perkam
damn nvidia is playing dirty!
Back in the phase change world
reminds me of the credit card commericals where the customer support guy always says NO! to everyone who calls
Last edited by Chris27; 09-18-2005 at 01:03 PM.
Oh I just call it AMR still for short.
If you have a cooling question or concern feel free to contact me.
i dont think max refresh can be fixed thru drivers.. isn't it a hardware limitation?
Clocked SIL = cracked SLI?
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ok, are they going to admit it and fix it?
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And how exactly does nvidia have crossfire before us? Thats unfair!
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lol...most of ATI's partners do...and some of them happen to be Nvidia partners as well
Perkam
I still wouldn't be so sure that Crossfire is limited to 1600x1200 60hz. That seems like a large problem that could be avoided
But isnt there like NDA and stuf?
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Official launch of crossfire was in August I believe.
Perkam
This compilation of press articles and assumptions doesn't look all that real to me. Is it an internal Nvidia presentation? An official Nvidia marketing presentation? Or just some fake?
If that's the way Nvidia is marketing their products, they just lost a customer.
I think there's some news thread about this. But, it doesn't seem to be limited to that res, it's just that 52 Hz might not be too forgiving to your eyes.
http://www.theinq.com/?article=26228
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is HW limitation to be exact DVI limitation.... but scissor mode (from what ive read can handle it not 100% sure just asumptions) but is true that the limit is the DVI bandwith that is way too low
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The internal comms (ie card to card) is handled by a decoder that can mange 1600*1200 @ 60hz. The external decoder (ie card -> VGA) can handle 2058*x @ 85hz iirc. Res and refresh arent going to be a problem....
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If this is t rue, then it doesn't seem to be such a flickering issue afterall. Smoothness is acceptable at 60 FPS. Even 52 FPS is quite sufficient on a widescreen LCD. 2058*x might be a problem though.
i've stopped using smiles
Well, it's about TIME that we got objective information about Crossfire!
I've been sick and tired of these "third-party" comparisons of Crossfire and SLI. After all, who knows Crossfire best than ATi's sworn enemy?
Waiting for Turion w/ user-exchangeable video card & lower ms response LCD's/OLED's.
60hz on an lcd is fine on a crt its the shinitz
Yeah who would give more objective info than the biggest competitor
I hope you just forgot to put a smiley in your post.
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