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For nearly 6 years NVidia has dominated
within the professional graphics card
market; multiple card support (SLI) to
many professional applications. This
has been an extremely lucrative market
- until now. The hot contender ATI;
has now successfully achieved
ATI CrossFire™ Pro
Technology for their professional
graphic cards. For the astute few this
announcement will come as no big
surprise. Though for many hundreds of
thousands FirePro end-users and
depending on your professional
application of choice, be prepared to
see within some huge differences.
So the biggest question on many tongues
is to be that of which cards are fully
ATI CrossFire™ Pro supported. For the
present Entry level cards are not
optimal for scaling and
we see
the FirePro V5700, the FirePro V7750
(Watch these spaces soon for more
information on this awesome little
rascal), the FirePro V8700 and last but
not least the FirePro V8750. Many will
be asking what is this, well we have yet
another exclusive for you on this 2GB
monster of a card on a completely
separate article.
So with the cards listed above what does
this mean to us all with the ATI
FirePro™ products winging in from
mid-range to the ultra high-end will all
support ATI CrossFire™ Pro Technology.
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Listed cards above
are currently supported by Windows®
XP (both 32 and 64-bit). Additional
support for other operating systems has a planned
availability - Q4’09.
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Enables the Combining
of Two Discreet GPUs
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Up to 80% performance
scaling for applications like Siemens NX
3, Teamcenter®, and Autodesk
Maya™. The results obtained within todays article from all
the systems show some very good
scaling within SPEC Viewperf 10
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ATI CrossFire™ Pro
achieves superior productivity for
designers with extreme performance needs
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ATI CrossFire™ Pro
Technology is supported on both AMD and
Intel Chipsets - a list of Certified
mainboards should be appearing soon on Manufacturers websites
soon. Within todays article
sees 4 mainboard taken at random from both Intel and
Supermicro that have performed
flawlessly.
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Customers who have
already purchased a supported ATI
FirePro™ card can request a cable on
the AMD website at
http://www.amd.com/crossfirepro
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