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ATI's R600 chipset is first cableless CrossFire |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
The Inquirer heard that the upcoming DirectX 10 compatible R600 won't need a master card to work in CrossFire. ATI will implement this bridge in its upcoming RV570 and RV560 chips and will enable more than one chip on a PCB configuration. But it won't be until the R600 chip that this cableless CrossFire comes into action. The R580+ chip will be the slight redesign of the existing R580, so don't expect miracles here. You will still need a master card and a cable to plug them together. ATI can already put two Radeon X1800 GTO cards in CrossFire and it doesn’t need a master card, but the bandwidth between those two cards is not that big. Therefore two slave cards will work and will do the job.
 ATI's R600 chipset is first cableless CrossFire
The master card is the last problem that ATI has to solve to be competitive with NVIDIA's SLI. ATI's entry-level CrossFire works without a master, and its mainstream card works without a master. The firm just needs a high-end offering and it's sorted. Getting there slowly but surely. Their next challenge is already plotted out as well as NVIDIA is making sure it get's enough talks going about their Quad SLI technology. How ATI will tackle that is something that still remains to be seen. Of course they won't just give up without a fight and we can expect for them to come up a similar technology.
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