Radeon X1950 Pro CrossFire Performance

Up to this point, one of the chief criticisms most users have had with ATI’s CrossFire technology has been ATI’s requirement of CrossFire master cards. Unlike regular Radeon graphics cards, the CrossFire master cards contain several extra chips which are used to handle the compositing and communication between GPUs. This makes the CrossFire cards slightly more expensive for ATI to produce, and thus with the exception of the Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire, ATI charged slightly more for them. The CrossFire master cards also tend to be in shorter supply than regular Radeon cards and therefore when you can find them, they tend to be more expensive. This further complicates matters for ATI.