Computex 2005 Coverage - ATI Multi VPU Details

Tweaktown hooks up with ATI’s ‘main man’ in charge of the Asian and Oceania regions to find out the latest info on on ATI’s upcoming MVPU (Multi VPU):

We were given some tasty information yesterday - such as with ATI MVPU you’ll have a master and slave graphics cards. The master will be based around the upcoming R520 series (which we were told will have 512MB and 24 pixel pipeline processing) and will be required to be the master card. The master card will work with any X800, X800XL, X850XT and X850XT graphics card – that’s right, you don’t need two identical graphics cards like nVidia’s SLI. ATI are pushing the whole “flexibility” thing with MVPU and so far from what they’ve told us, it sounds like they are heading down the right path. There will be other “master cards” available based on cut down versions of the R520 but specific details on this are sketchy still at this stage. We’ll confirm more details in Taiwan.