ATI Announces CrossFire at Computex

ATI Announces CrossFire at Computex
Posted :: May 31, 2005 by Haggs

At Computex Taipei (also known as Taipei International Computer Show), ATI has published a press release to announce that it has developed CrossFire, a multi-graphics card technology that will allow it to compete with nVidia's SLI. Excerpts from the press release are provided below.

"The strength of ATI's CrossFire platform is its broad game compatibility. ATI's unique multiple graphics processor implementation allows CrossFire to automatically work with every game, new or old, without requiring special game profiles or driver updates.

Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire ready motherboards from partners such as ASUS, DFI, ECS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PC Partner, Sapphire and TUL are designed with gamers in mind. They support both AMD and Intel platforms and have the overclocking and enthusiast-class features that gamers want such as high-definition audio, dual-core support as well as Gigabit Ethernet, SATA II with NCQ and RAID over PCI Express and they offer the broadest compatibility with high-performance system memory.

CrossFire ready motherboards and CrossFire Edition graphics cards will begin shipping in July."

It looks like enthusiasts will have to purchase special CrossFire ready motherboards and CrossFire edition graphics cards much like nVidia's SLI technology. It is likely comparisons of CrossFire and SLI will become abundant come July.