New 9800gx2/9800gtx/HD3870 X2 benchies

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i thought ati was before nvidia with rage fury maxx.

3dfx was first with sli

ATi evidently dropped research into multi-GPU after the MAXX failed miserably ... they apparently got back into in it right after NVIDIA announced the "new SLi" ... ATi's first attempt after this - a year later - with multi-GPU was also CRAP - x800 series ... no one knows even WHY they bothered with it ... hanging dongles and limited resolutions
:roll:

 

[batmang]

3870X2 ftw.

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i thought ati was before nvidia with rage fury maxx.

3dfx was first with sli

ATi evidently dropped research into multi-GPU after the MAXX failed miserably ... they apparently got back into in it right after NVIDIA announced the "new SLi" ... ATi's first attempt after this - a year later - with multi-GPU was also CRAP - x800 series ... no one knows even WHY they bothered with it ... hanging dongles and limited resolutions
:roll:

But the performance was outstanding, specially with the X850 series because the X800 Crossfire coreclock was much lower than the XT or PE. I don't remember if it was a X800 vainilla with 12 pipes or X800XL.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: evolucion8

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i thought ati was before nvidia with rage fury maxx.

3dfx was first with sli

ATi evidently dropped research into multi-GPU after the MAXX failed miserably ... they apparently got back into in it right after NVIDIA announced the "new SLi" ... ATi's first attempt after this - a year later - with multi-GPU was also CRAP - x800 series ... no one knows even WHY they bothered with it ... hanging dongles and limited resolutions
:roll:

But the performance was outstanding, specially with the X850 series because the X800 Crossfire coreclock was much lower than the XT or PE. I don't remember if it was a X800 vainilla with 12 pipes or X800XL.

only the ati fanboys really liked it
--search thru our threads of the time

x1800xt Crossfire was a decent step up over x800 Xfire .. and x1950 finally started playing 'catch up' with nvidia ... by 3XX0 series, AMD is Ahead [imo]

 

[CP5670]

I'm almost certain the limited resolution issue is still there, just that it's much less limited now to the point that most people don't need to worry about it. Still a bit too limited for me though, over a single card anyway.

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: evolucion8

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i thought ati was before nvidia with rage fury maxx.

3dfx was first with sli

ATi evidently dropped research into multi-GPU after the MAXX failed miserably ... they apparently got back into in it right after NVIDIA announced the "new SLi" ... ATi's first attempt after this - a year later - with multi-GPU was also CRAP - x800 series ... no one knows even WHY they bothered with it ... hanging dongles and limited resolutions
:roll:

But the performance was outstanding, specially with the X850 series because the X800 Crossfire coreclock was much lower than the XT or PE. I don't remember if it was a X800 vainilla with 12 pipes or X800XL.

only the ati fanboys really liked it
--search thru our threads of the time

x1800xt Crossfire was a decent step up over x800 Xfire .. and x1950 finally started playing 'catch up' with nvidia ... by 3XX0 series, AMD is Ahead [imo]

Well I just said is that the performance was nice, was able to get quite close to the 7800GTX 256 in SLI, I didn't mean that I liked, cause it's 1600x1200@60Hz limitation and the dongle thing.

 

[electricx]

Hopefully we'll see what happens when the NDA gets lifted... TOMORROW!!!!

 

[Rusin]

Originally posted by: electricx
Hopefully we'll see what happens when the NDA gets lifted... TOMORROW!!!!

It's already 17. ?!?!?!? Oh my god..now I'm in hurry