ATI X850XT CrossFire Review

We’ve already looked at the technology offered by ATI’s Crossfire platform in our preview quite some time back. Its unfortunate that ATI couldn’t get CrossFire out sooner as nVidia has already released their next generation 7800GT/GTX cards and thus what we have today- the X850XT cards in CrossFire configuration competing with nVidia’s previous generation 6800 series in SLI mode.

We now come to the question of who will buy CrossFire. Frankly speaking, we don’t know anyone who would want to. Not because of the issues mentioned above but because ATI is a bit too late with it. nVidia has their nextgen 7800 series available for a couple of months now and ATI is also planning on launching their new GPU very soon. We certainly think that if you’re planning on spending $700 on your graphics system, you’d be would be much wiser to spend it on the newer generation of cards.

In our opinion, the only reason ATI is releasing CrossFire on the x800/850 series is to show that they do have the technology ready. We’re sure that we’ll see it implemented on their newer GPUs in a more timely manner.

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