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ATI prepares to take on NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 |
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Written by Mavke
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
ATI may not come out with Quad CrossFire right now, but the company isn't standing still when it comes to events on June the 5th, NVIDIA's launch of the GeForce 7950 GX2. While the street price for the GeForce 7950 GX2 will bobble between $600-650, ATI plans to take on the product with its CrossFire package. Right now, the GeForce 7950 GX2 is being sold for around $850, attracting those with fat wallets and slim-line craniums. At the same time, you can now order an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX plus Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition card combo for around 800 dollars. That sounds to be a good marketing strategy but might not be enough to go up against the Quad SLI technology.
 ATI prepares to take on NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2
But, when it comes to cooling, ATI is struggling to compete. Two Radeon X1900 XT's produce enough heat to warm one nice room back in snowy Hannover, and the whining of the fans is pretty irritating. At the same time, the GeForce 7950 GX2 is as silent as the grave. You can expect ATI to take on NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 with claims of 100% game support. Yet, in fact, there are still applications where multi-GPU does nothing, regardless of the colour of the PCB. HDR with AntiAliasing is probably ATI's killer point. The decision is yours. Bear in mind, that DirectX 10 capable GPU's are coming in half a year, or less.
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