Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/15/amd_announces_crossfire_x/
AMD announces next-gen CrossFire... sort of
Two-, three- and four-GPU tech debuts on firm's website
15th November 2007 12:26 GMT
AMD has let slip the existence of the next generation of its CrossFire multi-GPU technology, dubbed CrossFire X.
Technically, CrossFire X is under wraps until 19 November, but when it launched the ATI Radeon HD 3800 line of graphics chips (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/15/amd_rolls_out_radeon_3800/) this morning, AMD not only posted the new technology's logo on its website, but also revealed CrossFire X has "up to quad-GPU support".
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AMD's website today
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CrossFire X, it added, can "scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three or four GPUs" all hooked up to each other with a "dual-channel bridge interconnect".
AMD's CrossFire sub-site doesn't refer to the new technology, however, since it's almost certainly part of the company's as-yet-unannounced 'RD790' chipset, which - as we wrote last month (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/10/msi_reveals_rd790_board/) - will ship as the 790FX and be a key component of the company's Spider gaming PC platform.
A few weeks ago, motherboard maker Asus announced its first 790FX-based boards, including the M3A32-MVP Deluxe, which sports four PCI Express 2.0 x8 graphics card connectors (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/05/asus_spills_amd_7_series_chipset_beans/) - by the sound of AMD's website, just what CrossFire X needs.