CrossFire™ - Reviews

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Performance
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Game Compatibility
Card Flexibility
Radeon™ Xpress 200 CrossFire

Card Flexibility

Francesco Ferrari – PC Magazine -Italia
"ATI’s CrossFire system, on paper, seems to solve the main issues related to the use of two graphics cards for gaming, especially for the relative flexibility when choosing the second graphics card."

Andreas Schilling, Hardwareluxx, Germany
"ATI can guarantee that whoever the manufacturer of the Radeon CrossFire Edition graphics card is, it will work together with any other graphics card in the X850 or X800 series."

Manfred Bertuch, Heise.de, Germany
"A X850-CrossFire-Card can be combined with every card of the X850 family (XT-PE, XT, Pro or Standard). The two cards can have different clock speeds and pipeline amounts. Even the BIOS versions, the graphics card memories and the manufacturer can be different."

Julien Jay, Clubic.com
"ATI does not use any internal bridge to connect the two graphics boards, which enables it to be more flexible on the level of the supported models. Thus CrossFire technology is compatible with all current Radeon X800 and X850 PCIE cards (X800, X800 Pro, X800 XT, X800 XT EP, X800 XL, X850 Pro, X850 XT, X850 XT EP) and this irrespective of manufacturer or BIOS version."

HardOCP.com
"Right now, everyone who owns an X800 or X850 series graphics card, or who goes out and buys one off the shelf, already supports ATI’s CrossFire multiple graphics card configuration. This is a great plus for gamers because those of you that already own an X800 or X850 series graphics card are only two steps away from being able to set up a multiple video card system with it."

AnandTech.com
" NVIDIA's SLI solution is restricted to running on not only the same model of card, but cards with the same video BIOS. Timing is crucial when hooking the two GPUs together for SLI. In fact, an out-of-spec SLI bridge can even cause problems."

GamingNexus.com
" So there you have ATI’s CrossFire technology. I do like the aspect that if I already own a powerful ATI card, the card won’t be obsolete when upgrading to a multi-GPU solution. I also don’t have to worry about matching brands or speeds with the master card."