6970 = Must have CF profile for each game ?

[tech960]

I've never owned an ATI/AMD card so bare with me here. Since I gather the new 6950/6970's are dual cards on a single PCB, I would guess this is recognized by windows as a crossfire setup. When new games come out will I have to wait to for AMD to release a proper CF profile for the game to take advantage of both chips ? And when this profile doesn't exist, would I be technically playing with only of the the cards. Thats gotta suck.

I recently RMA'd an EVGA 570 SC because it stopped working after less than a week, so now I'm weighing my options. I'm considering getting the 6950 and doing the bios flash thing.

Also, is there any rumors of AMD dropping a high end single card solution ?

 

[RussianSensation]

HD6950 and HD6970 are single-GPU videocards. The game profiles apply ONLY when you use those cards in pairs (i.e., HD6950 + HD6970, HD6950 x 2 or HD6970 x2). I think you are thinking of an HD5970 (previous high end dual-GPU videocard) and the future HD6990 (unreleased dual-GPU videocard expected in Q1 2011).

 

[tech960]

What about when the 6990 card drops. Will you then require the proper CF profile for each game ? Will the OS see the card as a single card or dual ?

 

[cmdrdredd]

It will be seen as a gual GPU card and work across all games. A profile for crossfire will improve performance. At worst you'd have about the performance of a 6950 and at best about the same performance of crossfire 6950s with only one card. That is assuming they use the 6950 as the base for the 6990, but they could use the 6970.

 

[badb0y]

6950/6970= Single GPU

6990= Dual GPU