ATI's Crossfire to arrive in August
 

BOARDS ARE getting readied, ATI is working on drivers and trying to produce enough master graphic cards and slowly but surely is getting ready to launch its answer to SLI. Yes it’s almost a year late, but still ATI can offer many things that Nvidia failed to offer with its implementation.
Nvidia offers stable drivers that will work in most of the games, is getting toward release 80 drivers and has the fastest SLI platform powered with two 7800GTX cards. Nvidia is catching up on some of the ideas as ATI has introduced some very interesting features and ways of rendering.

The key question remains. When will ATI be ready to release its Crossfire platform? Last time we asked some knowledgeable people we got a clear answer that we should see some final motherboards, drivers and graphic cards sometime in August.

You may be able to see some beta hardware and drivers before that but as we suggested back in April and May, ATI will first release Crossfire and then will follow up with R520 or should we say with two R520 boards breaking some 3Dmark 05 records.

It is taking ATI some time to master its Crossfire platform, motherboards, graphic cards and drivers, but knowing the amount of scepticism in ATI we believe that this platform won't be launched until it irons out all of the known bugs in hardware and in software.

SLI is surely getting some competition for late Q3, but choosing a graphic card or multi rendering platform is like a religion. You are either ATI or Nvidia and you won't make the move for nothing. This of course can be applied to mainstream or high end market as those users actually know what are they getting while in low end you are getting the nicer box and better features that you don’t know anything about, mostly.

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