SolMiester
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- Dec 19, 2004
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Crossfire is going to become much more viable as an SLI-solution than it has been.
Remember, Nvidia does framepacing too, so AMD is basically just doing what Nvidia does.
The reason why they didn't is because framepacing introduces small delays(it gives more ms before what happens shows up on screen), this is deliberate in order to give a smoother experience. Of course, most people will not notice this, but between microstutterings, an AMD crossfire solution would give you what was happening with smaller delays, but that would then be ruined by said stuttering with the intervals.
As have been pointed out, AMD is already fixing this and the coming drivers will more or less eliminate this as a problem(so don't worry it's a software thing, not a hardware thing).
My bottomline is: going forward, Crossfire will be basically on par with Nvidia's SLI solution as new drivers get released. I would still not recommend going SLI because you usually don't get 2x the performance but around 70% and sometimes even less than for a single card. A single card is far more consistent.
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